Contributor: Eleanor Foa Dienstag

Eleanor Foa Dienstag is a veteran author, journalist, photo-journalist and award-winning corporate writer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, the New Republic, the New York Observer, Ms., Travel & Leisure, and many other websites and publications. Eleanor is the author of three books. Her most recent, available on Amazon and Centro Primo Levi is MIXED MESSAGES: Reflections on an Italian Jewish Family and Exile. It is a multi-layered memoir about Eleanor’s personal journey, her father’s exile from Fascist Italy and the Foa Family journey, whose Italian-Jewish roots go back to the 1500s in northern Italy where her ancestors were famous printers. WHITHER THOU GOEST: The Story of an Uprooted Wife, also a memoir, was acclaimed by Business Week for its insights into corporate life. Her third book, In Good Company: 125 Years At The Heinz Table, offered a unique view of a quintessential American company. Eleanor served as staff speechwriter to the Chairman and CEO of American Express. In 1983, she founded Eleanor Foa Associates (www.eleanorfoa.com). It provides a wide variety of corporate writing and marketing services. Eleanor is past president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), received speechwriting awards from IABC, and was awarded literary residencies at Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). She resides in Manhattan.  
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The New Art: American Photography, 1839 – 1910 : The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Today, most of us take for granted the invention and existence of photography. Yet, in 1839, it landed on our shores as a technological bombshell, as transformative as the steam locomotive, the steam ship and…

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The Met Museum Is a Happening Place

This Fall, the Met Museum is a happening place. Crowds are enormous. New exhibitions are blooming. Existing masterpieces have been rehung, re-thought and relit. And the once staid Great Hall is ablaze with a site-specific,…

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Looking Back to The Sixties: Two Exhibitions 

Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite (August 19, 2022 – January 15, 2023) New-York Historical Society  This is a small but wonderful exhibition. It brings back an era in New York and Black history…

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WILLIAM KLEIN: YES at ICP

For women of a certain age, the fashion images of William Klein will be instantly recognizable. They appeared in Vogue and, as featured in this major exhibition of his work, remain stunning examples of Klein’s…

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Louise Bourgeois: Paintings

For fans of Louise Bourgeois  — of which I am one — this is a “must” exhibition. For those who are not familiar with her oeuvre, this small show, which covers the years 1938 to…

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Celebrating the City

The Museum of the City of New York has come up with yet another wonderful photography exhibition, “Celebrating the City.” It mixes past and present, as well well-known photographers with newcomers whose visions of New…

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Ruth Orkin: Expressions of Life

Fotografiska, with the support of Mary Engel, Director of the Ruth Orkin Photo Archive, has mounted a splendid – and long overdue – exhibition of Orkin’s work, both as a photographer and filmmaker.  Born in…

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Jewish Museum – Afterlives: Recovering Lost Stories of Looted Art

I was prepared to be disappointed by the Afterlives exhibition at the Jewish Museum after it was savaged in a New York Times review by Jason Farago. However, while I agree with much of what…

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