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Helen Shiner

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Art historian. Provenance researcher. Modernist sculpture. Catalogue raisonné of works of sculptor/printmaker, Moissey Kogan Bessarabian (Moldovan), École de Paris, d. Auschwitz France https://linktr.ee/moisseykogancr

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Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

Bellingcat volunteers using AI joined forces with a German historian to solve an enduring mystery of the Holocaust - who was the Nazi killer from the picture once known as The Last Jew in Vinnitsa, a chilling image kept as a 'trophy' from the massacres in Ukraine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

02.10.2025 11:26 — 👍 83    🔁 44    💬 5    📌 0

“Unhappy with the BBC's questions, Mr Cohen threatened to "make [BBC journalists] disappear" and claimed he could hack their communications.” 🥸

24.08.2025 08:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

#MoisseyKogan #MoissiKogan #MoissejKogan #ÉcoledeParis #SchoolofParis #modernistsculpture #torso #146today #happybirthday

24.05.2025 07:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today is #MoisseyKogan’s 146th birthday and here to mark the occasion is a variant cast of his Torso, artificial stone (pierre artificielle, Kunststein), c. 32.7 cm, 1927-28. This image comes from his friend Jan Engelman’s publication also named ‘Torso’ for the journal De Gemeenschap 1931.
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24.05.2025 07:21 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Just a guess, though based on work I did on Nierendorf and Klee. Worth checking out either way. Thanks

16.05.2025 14:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ownership

15.05.2025 19:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brought by Nierendorf who took ownship of a large group of works by Klee after his death. Former partner of Neumann. Just a thought

15.05.2025 19:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Gorgeous with a powerful personality shining through

13.05.2025 07:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Romanesque carving on the font at Toller Fratrum church, Dorset

06.05.2025 07:23 — 👍 54    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Also temple portals all round. A magical place

25.04.2025 15:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Walter Benjamin in Paris Orte, an denen Walter Benjamin im Pariser Exil lebte. Von 1933 bis 1940.

Jetzt online:

13 Orte, an denen Walter Benjamin im Pariser Exil lebte

Eine interaktive Karte. #Paris #Exil

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23.04.2025 15:35 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

Once we've established, as we have repeatedly, that "deport" is the wrong word, I'd support "rendition," which fully carries the meaning of what's going on and sounds, at least to me, properly odiously fascistic.

YM, as always, MV.

#copyediting

23.04.2025 21:14 — 👍 877    🔁 128    💬 55    📌 9
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Slightly more legible photo : Sonia Yassa / Ville de Paris

23.04.2025 09:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Photos by Didier Rykner, freresmartel.blogspot.com

23.04.2025 09:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Fontaine Debussy, Paris, featuring major sculptural works by the Frères Martel, erected 1932, is under threat and poorly maintained. Article by Didier Rykner: freresmartel.blogspot.com/2000/04/a-pa...

23.04.2025 09:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
People of Glasgow Scotland surround immigration to stop them removing their neighbour

People of Glasgow Scotland surround immigration to stop them removing their neighbour

FFS AMERICA! This is how you stop immigration taking away a member of your community!

17.04.2025 15:33 — 👍 90    🔁 35    💬 1    📌 4

"This is our career & our triumph. The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker & poor fish-peddler—all! That last moment belongs to us—that agony is our triumph." Bartolomeo Vanzetti's final words before he & Nicola Sacco were put to death, from print by Ben Shahn www.moma.org/collection/w...

16.04.2025 15:18 — 👍 55    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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So wonderful to receive this gift in the mail today: Kerry Wallach’s book, Traces of a Jewish Artist. The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit #rahelszalit

16.04.2025 14:38 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Signez la pétition Sauvons l'atelier de la Grande Chaumière

There is a petition calling for the Académie de la Grande Chaumière to be saved. Here is the link should you wish to sign: www.change.org/p/sauvons-l-...

16.04.2025 10:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Près de Montparnasse, cette historique académie d'art ayant formé Chagall ou Modigliani est menacée de fermer Située à quelques pas du quartier de Montparnasse, l'Académie de la Grande Chaumière est une école historique de modèle vivant.

Située non loin de Montparnasse, l’Académie de la Grande Chaumière est une école historique de modèle vivant, qui a accueilli Louise Bourgeois ou Amedeo Modigliani. Menacée d’être expulsée depuis plusieurs années, elle se voit contrainte de quitter les lieux www.pariszigzag.fr/paris-au-quo...

16.04.2025 10:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Takanori Oguiss's views of the backstreets of Montmartre form the greatest part of his work . A follower of Maurice Utrillo, he trained in Tokyo and moved to Paris in 1927 to join his friend Tsuguharu Foujita. This work dates from around 1930.

15.04.2025 10:51 — 👍 87    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 1
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Ce dessin méconnu de Picasso, dans le livre d'or d'Oradour-sur-Glane, raconte l'histoire de la "Caravane de la paix" Oublié pendant près de 40 ans, le livre d'or d'Oradour-sur-Glane recèle un véritable trésor. Ce carnet historique est composé d'œuvres d'immenses artistes de l'après Seconde Guerre mondiale, Picasso, ...

L’œuvre de Picasso est une gouache sur papier, très fragile. Le visage de cet enfant, sorti de l’imaginaire du peintre, pourrait représenter l’un des deux enfants espagnols assassinés dans l’église d'Oradour-sur-Glane #caravanedelapaix #picasso
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08.04.2025 12:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Aurèle Barraud painted his self‑portrait many times during his lifetime as a way of defining himself; at times relentless, self absorbed to something approaching satisfaction, this work from 1927 was completed when he was aged 24 and on the eve of an exhibition in Paris.

03.04.2025 11:25 — 👍 98    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 1

@societyofauthors.bsky.social

03.04.2025 11:20 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Dass die Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen gerade zu implodieren drohen, liegt nicht nur an Provenienzforschung und Restitutionsverweigerung. Meine Investigativrecherche zu gefährdeten Besucher*innen und Kunstwerken. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/vorwuerfe-ge...

02.04.2025 18:27 — 👍 52    🔁 22    💬 7    📌 3

Grausam

02.04.2025 22:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#MoisseyKogan, Groups of Women between Trees, woodcut, 19 x 34 cm, probably late 1920s. This image taken from the exhibition catalogue, Kogan, 1960 produced to accompany the show at the Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany, which owns this impression of the print 2/2

02.04.2025 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Moissey Kogan made comparable prints in editions of 25. In this case, we don’t know how many exist or were produced in the first place. 1/2

#MoisseyKogan #MoïseKogan #MoissiKogan #modernistprints #modernistwoodcuts #woodcuts #ÉcoledeParis #catalogueraisonnéwork #catalogueraisonné

02.04.2025 15:20 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Two near lifesize sculptures found during excavations of Pompeii tomb The detailed relics were found in a necropolis and experts believe the woman depicted could have been an important priestess

Experts believe the sculpture shows an important woman, perhaps a priestess of Ceres, goddess of agriculture and fertility, because of her jewellery and accessories - earrings, rings and bracelets, and lunula, a crescent moon pendant hanging from her necklace www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

02.04.2025 07:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Unfortunately, the edition I consulted (years ago) does not provide useful information in that regard.

01.04.2025 18:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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