Temporary foreign passport of Jonas Mekas, issued by the German Third Reich, listing his profession as worker and his address as Elmshorn, c. 1944 (all images courtesy the Estate of Jonas Mekas) The ...
The Jewish Museum presents Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running, the first U.S. museum survey of the Lithuanian-born filmmaker, poet, critic, and institution-builder who helped shape the ...
Installation view of Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running at the Jewish Museum, NY, February 18–June 5, 2022 (photo by Dario Lasagni) Experience the art and legacy of Jonas Mekas on the ...
In October 1949, Jonas Mekas arrived in New York City broke and nearly broken. The Lithuanian artist had survived a Nazi work camp and several years as a refugee, and was supposed to travel on to ...
A historian is accusing the Jewish Museum in New York of distorting the truth about a major artist’s ethically contentious conduct during and after World War II. Lithuanian-born Jonas Mekas, the ...
An innovative retrospective of work by Jonas Mekas reveals the fundamental honesty of his “diary” films. By Will Heinrich A Lithuanian refugee who landed in New York City in 1949 at the age of 27, ...
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