By Lisa Wurtele Not all those who have spent time with Rachel Marker have connected with her through the portal of the physical exhibition at The Magnes. Rachel has also had a deep impact on those who have entered her world by crossing time and place. The letters shared below were sent from several continents [...]
By Lisa Wurtele World-renowned art historian and cultural analyst Griselda Pollock visited the exhibition last month and was inspired to write about her impressions in a letter, which she addressed to Rachel Marker: Griselda Pollock penning her letter to Rachel Marker in the gallery. Photo: Moira Roth 19 March 2013 Dear Rachel Marker, I have [...]
What goes into the staging of an exhibition–especially one like Through the Eyes of Rachel Marker? By Lisa Wurtele Let’s peek behind the scenes into the search for images to enhance the visitor’s understanding of Rachel Marker’s world. “Moira and Alla knew they wanted a textural and contextual backdrop – a progression of stills and [...]
Last month, many of our exhibition visitors were moved to sit down at this desk in the gallery and pen a message to Rachel Marker. Here is one of them: February 5, 2013 Tuesday, Berkeley, CA cold, gray, 53° Dearest Rachel, I am so inspired by your letters to Kafka—the ways in which you weave your own [...]
In conjunction with the upcoming exhibition at The Magnes, writer and art historian Moira Roth will post a series of texts from the ongoing narrative about her fictional character Rachel Marker. The first post is dedicated to Alice Herz-Sommer, one of the inspirations for the Rachel Marker narrative. A Prague-born Jew now living in London, a renowned [...]
Alice Herz-Sommer, a Czech Jew, a pianist, and a survivor of Terezin Concentration Camp, is one of the inspirations for the upcoming installation by Moira Roth at The Magnes: Through the Eyes of Rachel Marker, opening January 22. She is the subject of A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer (Macmillan, [...]
What does it mean for an undergraduate to work at The Magnes? By David Puyandayev, Kohn Intern Sophomore, Middlebury College After I was accepted to the 2011 Kohn summer internship program, Jewish Vocational Services matched me up with The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life – not an agency I requested or ever heard [...]
http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/132382/ I am re-posting an article from The Jewish Daily FORWARD on the exhibition organized by the Magnes and Lehrhaus Judaica, currently of view at the Jewish Community Library in San Francisco. (Alla Efimova) Slideshow: Jews of the Fillmore By Renee Ghert-Zand Courtesy of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life With the opening [...]
Posed on behalf of Valerija Nechay, Kohn Intern at the Magnes in the Summer of 2010. Valerija is currently a student at UC Santa Cruz, majoring in Sociology. My brief time at the Magnes over the past eight weeks allowed me to take a glimpse into the rebirth of the most significant collection of Western [...]
A month after the move from Judah L. Magnes Museum‘s former home on Russell Street, and the creation of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, our staff is settled in its new quarters and is wasting no time in anticipation of the grand [...]
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