Word: albertism
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...Alcalay, a professor emeritus in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), art is an expression of the self or the results of inward exploration. It is therefore fitting that the new biographical documentary of Alcalay by three VES alumni be entitled Albert Alcalay: Self-Portraits. Alcalay himself, who would call all of art a self-portrait, could not have summed it up better...
Abstract landscape painter Albert Alcalay once said that as an artist, “you are an explorer of yourself...
What they had known of Albert Alcalay in the ’70s was that he worked prolifically and that his presence at Harvard preceded the Carpenter Center and the VES department itself. Before he arrived at Harvard, Alcalay, as a Serbian Jew, was an immigrant in New York City. Before his arrival in the States, Alcalay was interned in a concentration camp in Italy where he learned, of all things, to become an artist...
...retired from teaching in 1997 and since 1986, the VES department has awarded the Albert Alcalay Award to the best student in a workshop studio...
...foursome. On the Miami flight I crept into the first class cabin to interview Lennon, and returned bearing the stunning intelligence that his then wife Cynthia, who was traveling with the group, cut his hair with fingernail scissors. In a documentary film of the tour made by Albert and David Maysles, I can be seen joshing with Ringo Starr at a cocktail reception over whether Beatlemania was "all just a con." This bit of footage, authenticating that I had once basked in the presence of a Beatle, would in later years endow me with a measure of heroism...