Apr 13, 2021
Yom Hazikaron tells us that we are part of a community that witnesses and remembers in order to learn and care and build.
By Sherri Mandell, JNS
For some of us, this is a whole year we don’t want to remember. A year of COVID-19, with many people sick and out of work or in the hospital. It hasn’t been easy.
Yet, it’s surprising that there wasn’t more history passed down about a similar plague, the Spanish flu in 1918-1920, which affected a third of the world’s population.
Maybe they didn’t want to remember. And, of course, there was a lot less communication then no e-mail or Instagram or Twitter.
The courtroom sketch: A piece of history, and art
A courtroom sketch by the artist Marilyn Church from a hearing in the child custody trial between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow in 1993. The Library of Congress recently added more than 200 sketches of the Rodney King police brutality trial to its collection. We are drawing history in the making, one sketch artist said. Mary Chaney Family Trust/Library of Congress via The New York Times.
by Derrick Bryson Taylor
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Sitting in a New York City courtroom in 1993, Marilyn Church unpacked her crayons and paper and patiently waited for the right moment to illustrate. As a courtroom sketch artist, she was used to jockeying for a good vantage point. This time, she was lucky to be seated in an empty jury box, giving her a clear view of both Mia Farrow and Woody Allen during a hearing in their child custody dispute.
The Courtroom Sketch: A Piece of History, and Art nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
During her 15-year career as a courtroom artist, Mary Chaney created vivid and delicate glimpses of high-profile Los Angeles cases including the O.J. Simpson civil trial, the Richard Ramirez “Night Stalker” trial and the trial of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. After Rodney King’s vicious beating by four L.A. police officers 30 years ago, Chaney’s marker and ink sketches documented King’s criminal and civil trials between 1992 and 1994, relaying the energy and emotion of the courtroom to the public.
Chaney’s collection of 269 sketches relating to King including the 1993 sentencing of officers Laurence Powell and Stacey Koon on federal civil rights charges and the 1994 civil trial where a jury awarded King $3.8 million in damages has been acquired by the Library of Congress.