NO!art Movement

Exhibition view of “Flashes of the Future: The Art of the ‘68ers or The Power of the Powerless” @ Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany From left to right: Vostell, LURIE, Alverman #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #noart #borislurie

Exhibition view of “Flashes of the Future: The Art of the ‘68ers or The Power of the Powerless” @ Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany From left to right: Vostell, LURIE, Alverman #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #noart #borislurie

OPENING TODAY “Flashes of the Future: The Art of the ‘68ers or the Power of the Powerless” @ Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany This important group exhibition curated by Andreas Beitin and Eckhart Gilles includes 11 works by BORIS LURIE. #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #borislurie #noart

OPENING TONIGHT, 6pm-8pm @ Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY “Violated! Women in Holocaust and Genocide,” a group exhibition that includes Boris Lurie’s work. #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #borislurie #noart

International Holocaust Remembrance Day Today, January 27, is the day to remember all those murdered during the Holocaust and the nazi persecutions. #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #borislurie #holocaustmemorialday2018

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Boris Lurie’s “House Of Anita” presentation @ Jewish Museum, Moscow Lurie’s novel was recently translated to Russian by Julia Kissina, Valery Nougatov, and Alexandra Koroleva and includes a foreword by Kissina and Terence Sellers #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #borislurie #noart

Boris Lurie’s “House Of Anita” presentation @ Post-Babel Condition Festival 2017, Electro-Theater Stanislavsky, Moscow Lurie’s nível was recently translated to Russian by Julia Kissina, Valery Nougatov, and Alexandra Koroleva and includes a foreword by Kissina and Terence Sellers. #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #borislurie #noart

Due to the high numbers of daily visitors and the press praises, Boris Lurie’s retrospective exhibition in Havana has been considered an enormous success and will be extended through January 28, 2018 #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #borislurie #noart

A new review of Boris Lurie’s current retrospective in Havana just came out @ Bohemia http://bohemia.cu/cultura/2017/11/afirmacion-de-boris-lurie/ #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #borislurie #noart

The Russian translation of Boris Lurie’s “House Of Anita” is now available and currently being presented @ Moscow Book Fair #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #borislurie #noart

Amerique/ Lumumba Dead "Lumumba...is...dead,” 1960 Collage, oil paint and paper on canvas 71 1/2 x 77 1/2 in #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #borislurie #noart

Boris Lurie latest exhibition running through January 7 2018 @ Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Habana #borislurieartfoundation #borislurie #noart

Most recent review of Boris Lurie’s retrospective at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Habana by Giusette León Garcia @ Cubasi.cu http://cubasi.cu/cubasi-noticias-cuba-mundo-ultima-hora/item/69319-boris-lurie-regresa-a-la-habana #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #borislurie #noart

Boris Lurie was born 1924 in Leningrad, Russia, and grew up in Riga, Latvia. At the age of sixteen he was taken prisoner by the Nazis and imprisoned for a period of four years at Buchenwald and other concentration camps. After his liberation Lurie remained in Germany for a year and worked for the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps. He moved to New York City in 1946 and began his art career there. From 1954 to 1955 he lived and worked in Paris. Boris Lurie first gained national attention in 1960. During this year he, along with Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher, created the NO!art movement. The principle aim of NO!art was to bring back into art the subjects of real life. It thus stood in opposition to the two most popular movements of the era, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. For the most part critics and curators of the day rejected Lurie and NO!art. As he has stated, “The art market is nothing but a racket. There is an established pyramid which everybody who wants to benefit from it has to participate—if he is permitted to participate.” Yet Lurie continued to produce his highly charged political and social imagery and, in 1963, his now famous collage, Railroad Collage—which superimposed a pin-up girl in front of victims of a concentration camp—caused a major furor. He died in 2008 in New York. Boris is buried in Hof Hacarmel cemetery in Haifa, Israel. #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #borislurie #noart

Find out more about BLAF, its mission and the NO!art movement at our website: https://borislurieart.org/about-us #borislurieartfoundation #blaf #borislurie #noart

Exhibition view of “Boris Lurie in Habana” @ Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana