By Amy Zimmer
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| A Hanukkah lamp from Landsberg am Lech, Germany, 1945. The menorah was made in a displaced-persons camp at the end of World War II and dedicated to U.S. Gen. Joseph McNarney, hailed as their liberator. |
Monday, 5 December 2011
Author Maurice Sendak Selects Menorahs for Jewish Museum Show
Posted on 01:27 by the great khali
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By Amy Zimmer
NEW YORK - Maurice Sendak, author of the beloved children's classic, "Where the Wild Things Are," sifted through the Jewish Museum's foremost collection of more than 1,000 menorahs for a new holiday exhibition at the Fifth Avenue arts space. He selected 33 of them for "An Artist Remembers: Hanukkah Lamps Selected by Maurice Sendak," which opens Friday and runs through Jan. 29, 2012. The show includes the illustrator's reflections on the process of picking the holiday fixtures. "I stayed away from everything elaborate. I kept looking for very plain, square ones, very severe looking," Sendak told the Jewish Museum. "Their very simplicity reminded me of the Holocaust. And I thought it was inappropriate for me to be thinking of elaboration." [link]
By Amy Zimmer
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