Currently Browsing: Holocaust
Anne B. Real, the feature film presented at Chicago’s SWAN Day 2026 program, attests to how Anne Frank’s words – originally written in her diary between 1942 and 1944 – continue to resonate almost a century later, inspiring and the uplifting the voices of women and girls in our own era.
Founded in 2004, SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now), continues to host various events around the world during Women’s History Month to support women artists across creative disciplines and create community engagement with their work.… read more.
I’d heard about Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective from a few separate sources when it first opened, but didn’t get the chance to see it for myself until somewhere around the tail-end of 2025, when I happened to be writing an essay on Wilfredo Lam, and took a trip over to the Museum of Modern Art to visit their (also phenomenal!)… read more.
The German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon was 26 when she was murdered at Auschwitz. Her legacy, however, has far outlived her, making her one of the most recognizable female artists of the 20th century. Her work, painted in yellow-toned gouache, has become emblematic of Holocaust-era Art that seeks to document as much as express.… read more.
On a mild Sunday night in February I had the honor to sit down on Zoom with Mary Anne Knefel from our respective Brooklyn homes to discuss Ava DuVernay’s masterpiece film, Origin. Currently screening at select movie theaters, the film follows the epic research project of journalist and author, Isabel Wilkerson as she attempts to find the epistemological link between the treatment of Black people in the USA, Dalit people in India, and Jewish people in Nazi Germany.… read more.
Henrene Taylor was born in Mississippi to a Black woman and a white man in 1942, during the Jim Crow era. Due to the times, she and her siblings would call him dad in private. But, in public, they’d have to call him by his last name to not arouse suspicion that these children were his. Henrene was very fair-skinned with brown curly hair.… read more.
Five years ago today, Bird Box was released in theaters. This gripping psychological thriller about a mother determined to get her children to safety during an apocalypse, this film could only have been made by someone with equal amounts of strength and gumption as Sandra Bullock’s character in the film.… read more.