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“Make no mistake: Gilbert is a first-rate musician – you don’t get re-engaged by the Metropolitan Opera for nothing – and has a bright future ahead of him, part of which might well be in New York, owing to his presence on the faculty of Juilliard. … Read entire story.
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A rare ‘Inverted Jenny’ stamp recently sold at auction for just over $2 million with fees, setting a record for a single US stamp. The hammer price for the red, white and blue stamp was $1.7 million. The auction was conducted by Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries on November 8. “This is a historic moment […]
Menachem Daum, a filmmaker who co-produced a groundbreaking 1997 documentary that illuminated the cloistered world of America’s Hasidim, died on Jan. 7 in a hospital near his home in Borough Park, Brooklyn. He was 77. His death was confirmed by Eva Fogelman, a friend and the author of a book about Christian rescuers of Jews […]
Eikoh Hosoe, a Japanese photographer who blazed a new trail for his medium with his taboo-testing pictures about invisible worlds, has died at 91. The Japanese agency Kyodo News reported his death last week, saying that he died in Tokyo of complications related to an adrenal gland tumor. Hosoe’s photographs involved butoh dancers, naked flesh, […]