The International Institute is pleased to welcome Laura Katzman, the curator of “Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity” currently at the Reina Sofia Museum, to speak about Shahn's lifelong commitment to addressing social justice through art.
The son of Jewish-Lithuanian immigrants in the United States, Ben Shahn (1898-1969) produced a large body of visual art (paintings, drawings, photographs, murals, prints, posters, illustrated books, and commercial designs) about workers' rights and civil rights between the 1930s and 1960s, from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War era.
Reviews of the exhibition in El País and in ars magazine.
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Laura Katzman is guest curator of Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity, a retrospective exhibition on view at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (October 3, 2023 through February 26, 2024). She is a professor of art history at James Madison University (Harrisonburg, Virginia/USA) and specializes in American art and documentary photography from the New Deal and World War II era in the continental United States and Puerto Rico. Katzman is co-author of the award-winning Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times (2000) and principal author of Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam (2014). She is editor and contributor to The Museum of the Old Colony: An Art Installation by Pablo Delano (2023), which documents a conceptual art project about the Caribbean archipelago of Puerto Rico, the US territory that has been called the oldest colony in the world.
The International Institute is pleased to welcome Laura Katzman, curator of the exhibition “Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity”, currently at the Reina Sofía Museum, to talk about Shahn's vital commitment to the fight for social justice through his art.
The son of Jewish-Lithuanian immigrants to the United States, Ben Shahn produced an extensive body of visual art (paintings, drawings, photographs, murals, prints, posters, illustrated books, and commercial designs) on workers' rights and civil rights among the 1930s and 1960s, from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War.
Exhibition “Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity” It is presented at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid until February 26.
For more information: reviews of the exhibition at El País and in the magazine ars magazine.
Important information: