Archival Spaces 379: Photography by Karel Čapek Uploaded 8 August 2025 The name Karel Čapek (1890-1938) is familiar to American science fiction readers and certainly specialists in Slavic literature, but probably not many others. In the Czech Republic, however, Čapek is revered as one of the greatest authors of the first half of the 20thContinue reading “379: Karel Čapek”
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375: Smuggling Art
375: My career as an Art Smuggler Archival Spaces 375 Uploaded 13 June 2025 In Spring 1979 I was working as a free-lance curator on the exhibition, “Film und Foto der zwanziger Jahre/Film and Photo in the 1920s,” for the Würtembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Germany. At the time I was a year into my PhD.Continue reading “375: Smuggling Art”
233: Robert Frank (1924-2019)
Archival Spaces 233 Jan-Christopher Horak This is the first blog on my new website, but is a continuation of a blog I have been writing for over ten years. I started it on an Ithaca College website in 2009 at the invitation of my colleague Patty Zimmermann. In 2011, I moved it to the UCLAContinue reading “233: Robert Frank (1924-2019)”
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