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Freud’s Last Session—It’s-Yes!-Entertaining
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Psychoanalysis does not profess the arrogance of religion, thank God. Sigmund Freud in the Play Attention thinking theater-goers! If you haven’t caught up with Freud’s Last
Three New Exhibitions at the Met
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around
This Spring, New York’s venerable institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is offering us an array of goodies – in addition to Schaparelli/Prada — to
The Importance of Being Hans: Hans Hofmann Modernizes the Moderns
Friday, April 13th, 2012
by Ann Rebecca Bleefeld on Playing Around
Painter, teacher and mentor Hans Hofmann’s considerable reputation as an innovator of ideas and methods, as well as one of the great influences on American
Newseum: Celebrating Freedom of the Press
Sunday, April 8th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
If we had to choose what freedoms set America apart from other nations around the globe, freedom of the press would be at the top
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso And the Parisian Avant Garde
Friday, February 24th, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around
Ten years in the making, The Steins Collect, a stunning exhibition, not only offers us great paintings by Matisse and Picasso (as well as Bonnard,
Art Glass with Strength and Whimsy
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around
Master Glassmaker Stanislaw Borowski and his family fled Poland for Germany in 1983. Already known for his unique engravings and glass sculptures, Borowski achieved wider
Coming Home
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
by Stacey Walz on Living Around
It is the afternoon of June 29, 2011 and I’m standing in my vacant German flat. The movers left just minutes earlier with our countless
Making a Big Difference with A Small Act
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
Hilde Back escaped to Sweden during World War II, leaving her mother and father behind in Germany. Sweden had agreed to take in Jewish children,
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