How Shanghai saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust
This photo taken on December 8, 2020 shows a man standing next to a statue of Ho Feng-Shan (also know as He Fengshan), a Chinese diplomat in Vienna who saved thousands of Jews by giving them Chinese visas between 1938 to 1940, in an exhibition hall at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum on the day the museum reopened to the public after an expansion project in Shanghai. January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. STR / AFP.
by Peter Stebbings
(AFP)
.- As an infant Kurt Wick escaped almost certain death in a Nazi concentration camp by taking refuge in Shanghai, a little-known sanctuary for thousands of Jews fleeing the Holocaust.
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BOCA RATON, FLA
.- There is every reason this year to have a world view, says Irvin Lippman, the Boca Raton Museum of Arts Executive Director, as South Florida boldly ushers in the new year with the national premiere of Glasstress 2021 Boca Raton. Three years in the making, with 2020 being such a challenging year to coordinate an international exhibition of this size and scope, the effort serves as an important reassurance that art is an essential and enduring part of humanity. This is also a tribute to the resilience of Venices surviving the floods and continuing to make art through the pandemic. Most of these works in glass have never been seen elsewhere, and were handpicked by Kathleen Goncharov, the Museums Senior Curator who traveled to Italy in 2019. The new exhibition runs Jan. 27 through Sept. 5, 2021 and the Museum will feature online initiatives for virtual viewing. Watch the new video . More
Julia Stoschek Collection opens an exhibition of works by Jeremy Shaw
Jeremy Shaw, Quickeners, 2014, 16mm film transferred to video, 36′24″, color, sound. Video still. Courtesy of the artist and König Galerie, Berlin.
by Maxwell Stephens
DUSSELDORF
.- Jeremy Shaws Quantification Trilogy consists of three parafictional short films: Quickeners (2014), Liminals (2017), and I Can See Forever (2018). The works are set in the future and explore how marginalized societies confront life after a scientific discovery has mapped and determined all parameters of transcendental spiritual experience. This is known as The Quantification. Employing aesthetics and outmoded media of the 20th century to depict the future, Shaws alchemical combination of cinema verité, ethnographic film, conceptual art, and music video invites the viewer to suspend their disbelief in the story, and provides a series of critical perspectives on systems of power. The Quantification Trilogy examines fri
Nile cruiser that inspired Agatha Christie sails on despite virus
This picture taken on January 3, 2021 shows a view of the suite where British crime fiction writer Dame Agatha Christie is believed to have stayed while writing her 1937 novel Death on the Nile , at the Old Cataract Hotel in Egypt s southern city of Aswan, some 920 kilometres south of the capital. Over a century since it first cruised the glittering waters of the Nile, the steam ship Sudan draws tourists following the trail of legendary crime novelist Agatha Christie, whom it was inspired to pen one of her most famous whodunnits in 1937, Death on the Nile . Khaled DESOUKI / AFP.