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Barnett Newmanâs Stations and the Memory of the Holocaust* MARK GODFREY In January 1965, Barnett Newman attended a symposium at New Yorkâs Jewish Museum, an institution then planning his retrospective. The chair was Dore Ashton, and the speakers were Paul Brach, Arthur A. Cohen, and Peter Selz. The title, arrived at after much discussion, was âWhat about Jewish Art?â Three days later, Newman wrote to the director to âexpress my disgust at the Jewish Museumâs sponsorship of the debate âWhat about Jewish Artâ . . . What the Jewish Museum has done is to compromise me as an artist because I am Jewish. Please therefore notify all concerned not to ask me to cooperate ever with any of your shows since you have made it impossible for me to show my work in your Museum.â1 There is no complete record of the talks Newman heard, but the notes for the speeches suggest that even those on the panel resisted the title of the discussion: Cohen began his presentation by stating the symposiumâs question âWhat about Jewish art?â only to answer âNot very much, not very interesting if there is such a confection, and it is doubtful if there
October – MIT Press
Published: Apr 1, 2004
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