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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 is art?” Alcalay muses in the film, which premiered at the Harvard Film Archive on January 22. “Art is an organizational form, a form that expresses human feelings. That means that only humans can produce...
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...
Rightly or wrongly, many Sarajevans lay the blame for the bankruptcy of Balkan policy at the feet of the U.N. and its Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros- Ghali. Their bitterness and desperation are reflected in the following dispatch by TIME contributor Zlatko Dizdarevic, which was translated by Ammiel Alcalay...