What unspoken messages do First Ladies send with fashion? And how did the unforgettable Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy break the mold to present her husband's candidacy and presidency as progressive and modern?

Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
June 29–October 8, 2012

This video focuses on Rineke Dijkstra's series of portraits of Almerisa, whom the artist met as a child in a refugee center for Bosnian asylum seekers in the Netherlands. Dijkstra and Almerisa each describe the experience of taking their first photograph together and discuss how the series has evolved over the course of Almerisa's life as she grows from a young Bosnian girl into a Dutch woman with her own child.

Author Daniel Silva in conversation with Dr Maxwell L Anderson, the Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art. Arts and Letters Live July 21, 2012

Floor demonstrates many characteristic elements of Do-Ho Suh's broader body of work. The artist uses installations to integrate his artwork with the architecture of a gallery or public space. He has engaged the tensions between collective action and individual identity in other pieces, using his miniature figures to support a heavy stone pedestal or to form a tremendous screen with their interlocking bodies.

Madame Claude Dalsace, née Bloch, recalls what it was like to sit for the artist Edouard Vuillard as a child (interview, 2012).

Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
The Jewish Museum, New York
May 4 - September 23, 2012
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/vuillard

Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
The Jewish Museum, New York
May 4 - September 23, 2012
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/vuillard

Artist Lisa Yuskavage and Chief Curator Norman Kleeblatt discuss the paintings of Edouard Vuillard and his impact on contemporary art. The conversation highlights Vuillard's influence on artists from after World War II to those working today, and examines Yuskavage's own complex art.

Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
The Jewish Museum, New York
May 4 - September 23, 2012
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/vuillard

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