Giving and Receiving: Memoirs of an Immigrant Curator and Philanthropist

A riveting memoir of escape from communist authoritarianism to a life in the arts in America.

“There was no freedom here, no security, very little opportunity, and altogether too much corruption…”

Marica Vilcek was just twelve years old when the Communists took over her country. Her prospects were curtailed, as a result, and when her brother vanished, apparently escaping to Western Europe, her family became blacklisted, reducing her hope for a future career in the sciences and arts.

But in s...