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The René and Carolyn Balcer Collection comprises some 800 works and includes woodblock prints, watercolors, screens, sketches and other works and writings by Hasui. A major exhibit of the collection, Hasui: Water & Shadow , opened at the VMFA in November 2014 and ran until March 2015.
- Canadian, American
- Writer, producer, director, showrunner
Drawn from the unparalleled collection donated to VMFA by preeminent Hasui collectors René and Carolyn Balcer, the exhibition exemplifies the creativity and cultural hybridity Hasui’s work embodies. His art has been embraced by American and Japanese audiences alike for nearly a century.
NEW YORK, September 28, 2017 — Following a screening of their film Above the Drowning Sea, director René Balcer and producer Carolyn Hsu-Balcer sit down for a Q&A with Asia Society Museum Director Boon Hui Tan. Above the Drowning Sea tells the story of European Jews who, before the onset of World War 2, escaped Nazism by immigrating to China.
Ms. Carolyn Hsu-Balcer memorized that her father once lived in Shanghai and at the time Chinese people and Jewish refugees were living in harmony with each other. At the end of the conversation, Mr. Balcer summarized, “The lesson that the film teaches is these people were not saved by any government or some big policy.
Many thanks to: René Balcer and co-executive producer Carolyn Hsu, and Dr Ezra Claverie, Language Lecturer in the Writing Program at NYU Shanghai. Interview by Charlotte San Juan. Writer-director René Balcer tells how the story of the escape of Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe to Shanghai on the eve of WWII, is an echo of history with ...
Mar 29, 2015 · Carolyn Hsu-Balcer and René Balcer. E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. Christie’s. The Japan Foundation. A visually compelling selection of Kawase Hasui Japanese woodblock prints as well as paintings and didactic material that explores the dynamic early works.
René and Carolyn Balcer will appear in-person. Among his many achievements, Mr. Balcer has written, produced, and directed TV’s Law & Order series since 1991. Buy Tickets. Co-presented by VMFA and the 25th Annual James River Film Festival, a volunteer-run nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of film and film as art: jamesriverfilm.org.
