My examiner.com article about the exhibit:
Art 101: BWAC's "Celebrate 20" Spring 2012 Art Show - New York NY | Examiner.com.
Also see the slideshow sneak preview with 40 images from the exhibit:
Pictures - BWAC Spring 2012 Art Show - New York NY | Examiner.com.
Video portrait by John Feldman of artist Helen Frankenthaler commissioned by Purchase College School of the Arts for the 2008 Nelson A. Rockerfeller awards.
NY Times critic's notebook: Two Artists Who Embraced Freedom
In "A Hanukkah Project: Daniel Libeskind's Line of Fire" 40 hanukkiot (Hanukkah menorahs) selected by curator Susan Braunstein from The Jewish Museum's permanent collection of over 500 hanukkiot are displayed on a stand designed by architect Daniel Libeskind.
Read the entire article and view a slideshow of the exhibited hanukkiot.
That Houdini, who was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries continues to inspire twenty-first century visual artists such as Matthew Barney, Petah Coyne, Jane Hammond, Vik Muniz, Deborah Oropallo, and Raymond Pettibon speaks to his enduring power of his multi-dimensional prowess and personality.
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On Friday October 29, 2010 The Jewish Museumwill present Houdini: Art and Magic, the first major art museum exhibition to examine the life, legend and enduring cultural influence of Harry Houdini. The exhibit will explore the career and lasting impact of the magician, escape artist, vaudeville entertainer, silent movie actor, author and lecturer through 163 objects including 26 recent works of art inspired by Houdini.
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Tuesday night Shoshana volunteered at the homeless shelter in the basement of Brooklyn Heights Synagogue and took Wednesday off from work, so we spent the afternoon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where we saw contemporary paintings by Australian Aborigine artists (mostly acrylic on canvas).
"Awelye, Bush Melon, and Bush Melon Seed Dreamings" by Minnie Pwerle
"Yarla Yam Dreaming" by Lorna Fencer Napurrula
"Bush Fire Dreaming" by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
We also saw the Samurai Arms and Armor exhibit (more Japanese swords than you're likely to ever see in one place--a must for Kill Bill fans) and the American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915 exhibit (most of which I had seen before at the Met, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Smithsonian's National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Museum of American Art, and other east coast art museums), as well as parts of the permanent collection. Of the latter I especially enjoyed Giacometti's Cat: 
We stayed in Manhattan, walked five blocks east and seven blocks south, and had dinner at A La Turka where we enjoyed the combination appetizer platter, the vegetable casserol, and a candied pear for dessert. Having missed the evening rush hour while we dined we walked nine blocks south and two blocks west and caught the F train for a one seat ride back to Brooklyn where we paid a shiva call at the home of a friend from shul who lives two blocks from us before returning home. This evening we made another shiva call at the home of another friend and shul member who also lost his mother (we've reached the age where our peers are burying their parents--fortunately ours are still alive and healthy). Tonight we'll stay in and listen to the authorized fireworks from the park as well as the neighborhood adolescents' illegal ones.
"Winpa" by Daniel Walbidi