Overview
Featuring violinist Ilana Zaks-Nederlander
Join us for a tribute to Boris Lurie (1924–2008), a Holocaust survivor, artist, activist, and founder of the NO! art movement who emigrated to New York in 1946. The program is a powerful synthesis of historical music, visual art, archival testimony, and live performance that situates Lurie’s work within the broader artistic and intellectual responses to the Holocaust.
Featuring violinist Ilana Zaks-Nederlander, this event honors Lurie’s legacy with virtuosic solo violin works by Jewish composers persecuted during the Holocaust, including Hans Krása, Szymon Laks, Dick Kattenburg, Erwin Schulhoff, and Ernest Bloch. Stephanie Stebich, executive director of the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, gives opening remarks, and a Q&A with Zaks-Nederlander and Stebich concludes the program.
Off the Wall series
This is the inaugural event in a new series, Off the Wall, in which the Initiative for Jewish Art and Culture delves into the world of lesser-known modern and contemporary American artists. These multidisciplinary events explore the lives and experiences of US-born and immigrant American artists and the ways in which Jewish identity shaped their work.
Photo: Carlin Ma