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Mindy Cantor to lecture on the artist Barnett Newman
Mindy Cantor - Thursday, July 26th at 7:00 p.m.
Barnett Newman was one of the leading artists in the development of Abstract Expressionism. Born on the Lower East Side of New York in 1905, he was considered to be the intellectual among the abstract expressionists. This talk will focus on Newman’s knowledge of the Hebrew Bibles, the Kabbalah and Hassidim as spiritual sources in art. Also discussed will be Newman’s unusual, creative synagogue model designed for an exhibition of Synagogue Architecture that was held at the Jewish Museum in 1963.
Mindy Cantor has a master’s degree in Art History from the University of Chicago. She is the editor of a book of essays on Greenwich Village called Around the Square 1830-1890 and has written essays on Modern Art in a book by Norman F. Cantor, The American Century. She has given talks on Barnett Newman at the Pollack-Krasner House, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Temple Adas Israel. She lives in Sag Harbor.