Travels in the 2nd half

The Prisoners by Käthe Kollwitz   In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is the home for art created from the 1880’s through today. Its permanent collection and the temporary exhibits cover a wide range of genres and styles. Currently, there are three special exhibitions, all featuring female artists. They span over 100 years of art history, yet all offer a view of the world through a woman’s struggles. Joan Jonas - Good Night Good Morning Joan Jonas (b. 1936) has been a pioneer of performance and video art for close to sixty years. She originally trained as a sculptor, but living on the lower East Side of New York City brought her into the avant-garde art movement in the 1960’s. Her first foray into performance art was a series of dance exhibitions titled Mirror Pieces. Dancers performed in spaces while holding large mirrors. The mirrors were moved so that they shifted between reflections of the dancers and the audience. Mirror Pieces by Joan Jonas   Shortly afte...

Käthe Kollwitz Museum - Berlin The art of Käthe Kollwitz has been a part of my life as far back as I can remember. She produced works that touched my parents on an emotional level unlike most others. Some of her work lived with them until they died. So, there was no way that I would miss a chance to visit the Käthe Kollwitz Museum on a trip to Berlin. The Käthe Kollwitz Museum is housed in a villa built in 1867 in the Charlottenburg neighborhood of Berlin. It houses over 200 pieces by Mrs. Kollwitz and has a wonderful comprehensive display of her life’s work. Käthe Kollwitz (nee Schmidt) was born in Königsberg, Prussia (today Kaliningrad, Russia) in 1867. Her father was a socialist and her mother’s father was a Lutheran Self-Portait in Bronze reverend who was expelled from the state church for being too radical. At sixteen, she moved to Berlin to attend art school. She concentrated on drawing instead of painting, and her subjects were often workers, farmers and o...