Robert Goldblum

Sep 19, 2024 | hadassahmagazine.org | Robert Goldblum

Email Print In the opening section of his 1926 epic poem “Paterson,” William Carlos Williams lays down a marker, a revolutionary credo, for his generation of American poets: “Say it, no ideas but in things.” It’s a mantra that seems to animate the work of Israeli photographer and collage artist Ilit Azoulay, whose new show at The Jewish Museum in New York City—her first solo exhibition in the United States—opens on September 13 and bears the unassuming but sly name, “Mere Things.” The works...

May 25, 2023 | jewishinsider.com | Robert Goldblum

Feb 22, 2023 | hadassahmagazine.org | Robert Goldblum

Feb 22, 2023 | hadassahmagazine.org | Robert Goldblum

The Sassoon men cut quite a figure. Their vast wealth, first as opium traders and merchants and later as art patrons and collectors, stretched from Baghdad to Bombay, today called Mumbai, to the royal corridors of Great Britain. There was patriarch David Sassoon, often pictured in flowing robes with a long silver beard and intricate headdress, every inch a mid-19th-century Iraqi Jew of means. His business empire moved effortlessly between East and West.

Jan 12, 2021 | hadassahmagazine.org | Robert Goldblum