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Tell the Damn Truth! A Conversation with Peter Guralnick
PETER GURALNICK is the author of Sweet Soul Music, Lost Highway, and Feel Like Going Home, about the great artists at the heart of American Roots Music; the two-part biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love; as well as Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, and Searching for Robert Johnson. […]
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The Israel Museum @ 50: Treasures & Exhibits
Happy birthday to the Israel Museum! The country’s national museum turns 50 this year — middle age for most of us, but quite young in museum years. The museum is celebrating the occasion with a year of special exhibits, loans and gifts, adding to its encyclopedic collection covering Middle East archaeology, Jewish life, and modern […]
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Heaven is a Library (The National Library of Israel)
On my most recent visit to Jerusalem this past June, I spent a few hours in heaven: touring the collections of the National Library of Israel and previewing plans for its new state-of-the-art building to be built on a beautiful site near the Knesset, the Supreme Court and the Israel Museum. Reimagining the library for […]
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The Broad's Veiled Gift to LA
Everything about visiting The Broad, the new museum on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles that Eli and Edythe Broad built to house their contemporary art collection, is better than expected, better than a drive-by of the exterior leads you to believe, better than photos would have you think. Yes, there are plenty of reasons […]
A Hungarian Lens on Photography
A portrait of Picasso. Photos by Ervin Marton Courtesy Stephen Cohen Gallery “It is not enough to have talent,” photographer Robert Capa once said, turning an old saying on its head. “You also have to be Hungarian.” By which he meant Hungarian-Jewish. This point is reinforced in an exhibition of post-World War II Paris photographs […]
The Liar: the Four Personas of Adolf Eichmann
Published in The Los Angeles Review of Books: The following essay/book review was just published in The Los Angeles Review of Books: http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/liar-four-personas-adolf-eichmann The Liar: The Four Personas of Adolf Eichmann April 19, 2015 By Tom Teicholz Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer By Bettina Stangneth (Knopf). LIKE A FOSSIL preserved […]
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