From his talk at the Koffler Gallery, visual artist Rafael Goldchain on his photographic series I Am My Family and how its approach to simulation as a means of commemoration represents a “double gesture towards the past”—an attempt to both recuperate and interrogate history.
Despite the deliberate erasures of Soviet historiography, the site of the massacres at Babyn Yar reveals a story spanning several eras of Ukrainian history—though mostly by examining how that story was allowed to be told.
Commentary from the concluding panel discussion at the half-day symposium “Babyn Yar, the Holocaust and Beyond: Architectures of Memory”, organized by Koffler Arts.
Soundstreams’ inaugural event of the new season brings together two of the great Jewish artists of the twentieth century—the artist Mark Rothko and composer Morton Feldman.
Authors Gary Barwin and Cary Fagan discuss the quest as narrative device in their work, and how journey stories can help children—and even writers—navigate difficult or traumatic subject matter.
In a wide ranging on-stage conversation, the novelist Heti and Sol the poet discuss the role of religion in their work, how the loss of a parent can upend one's universe, and less reverent ways of naming God.
Manuel Herz, the Basel-based architect behind a new synagogue on the site of the Babyn Yar massacre, challenges prevailing notions of memorialization in architecture.
