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Group Exhibition Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism

The Graduate Center, The City University of New York 365 5th Avenue, New York

The Polish Cultural Institute New York is proud to announce Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism, a group exhibit to be opened on Tuesday, November 19, at The James Gallery, The CUNY Graduate Center. Curated by Inga Lace, Katherine Carl, Andra Silapetere and Solvita Krese, the exhibit is a part of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art four-year…

The Art of Exile: Paintings by German-Jewish Refugees

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

Opening celebration for this exhibition that tells the personal stories of artists uprooted from their homelands, whose work is linked by a sense of loss and displacement. Ticket Info: Free; reservations at art-exile.bpt.me or 800-838-3006

Out of the Box – Paint, Pray, Love

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

Known for her paintings of erotic female nudes, Lene Schneider-Kainer divorced her husband in 1926 and set off on an artistic odyssey across Asia. Retracing Marco Polo’s journey, the intrepid artist travelled from opium dens in Isfahan to Buddhist temples in the Himalayas and from brothels in Agra to the Peking Opera. When she died, Schneider-Kainer left her travel diary,…

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