Gallery Tours, Workshops and More Set for Jewish Museum's Today Family Activities, July 2013

SUMMER FAMILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE

ART ADVENTURE MONDAYS

Ages 4 to 7

Kids can explore The Jewish Museum's galleries on special tours featuring stories, sketching and exciting themes each week.

July 8 - Everything All Around

Program attendees will enter the world of artist Jack Goldstein and discover the electrifying works he created using images and sounds borrowed from the surrounding environment in the exhibition, JACK GOLDSTEIN × 10,000.

July 15 - Then & Now

Visitors will see the exhibition, As it were... So to speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom, and travel between the past and present through objects from the Museum's collection.

July 22 - Word Play

Kids will view the video installations in the exhibition, Six Things: Sagmeister & Walsh, and explore what inspires happiness in their own lives using words of wisdom from this design duo.

July 29 - Picturing People

Attendees will examine how a person's clothing, facial expression, and pose can tell a story, and investigate portraits throughout the Museum to find out.

Free with Museum admission

ART IN JULY DROP-IN ART WORKSHOP

Ages 4 to 7

A hands-on, drop-in workshop creating art inspired by the lively, colorful worlds of artists Jack Goldstein and Barbara Bloom.

Free with Museum admission

The Jewish Museum is presenting Jack Goldstein x 10,000, the first American museum retrospective devoted to the work of Canadian-born artist Jack Goldstein (1945-2003) through September 20, 2013. This comprehensive exhibition brings to light Goldstein's important legacy, revealing his central position in the Pictures Generation of artists of the 1970s and 80s. The impressive range of the artist's imagination is being explored through Goldstein's influential films and paintings as well as his pioneering sound recordings, installations, and writings. Ten years after his untimely death in 2003, Goldstein's work is exerting fresh influence, especially among younger artists. With Jack Goldstein x 10,000, The Jewish Museum provides audiences who may not be familiar with his work an in-depth understanding of an extraordinary art innovator. The exhibition includes nearly 40 works of art, along with rare writings providing a context for the reappraisal of Goldstein's contributions.

As it were ... So to speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom is on view at The Jewish Museum through August 4, 2013. Artist Barbara Bloom has devoted her career to questioning the ways we perceive and value objects. The Jewish Museum invited Bloom to create an installation drawn from its more than 25,000 works of ceremonial, decorative, and fine art. Her presentation sets a selection of over 270 pieces in unconventional contexts, and offers visitors new ways to view the Museum and its holdings. As it were ... So to speak materializes the idea of people in dialogue across time and space, inspired in part by Bloom's reflections on Talmudic discourse, which takes place over centuries. The artist envisions the space as both museum and home filled with imagined historical guests - Nefertiti, Émile Zola, George Gershwin and others - from diverse times engaged in discourse and argument. Furniture-shaped display cases contain collection objects that the artist finds intriguing or appealing. For example, Torah pointers with their delicate hands and extended forefingers stand in for strings inside a piano; a cigar box owned by Sigmund Freud is displayed in a psychoanalyst's consultation space; and a Dreyfus Affair game board sits on a table with ancient Roman dice. Each tableau is accompanied by written passages suggesting conversations between people.

The Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Education's School and Family programs are made possible with endowment support from the Bronfman Family, the Muriel and William Rand Fund, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Helena Rubinstein Foundation, Rosalie Klein Adolf, the Kekst Family Fund, and Mrs. Ida C. Schwartz in memory of Mr. Bernard S. Schwartz. Generous support is provided by the J.E. and Z.B. Butler Foundation, The Jewish Museum Volunteer Organization, and other donors. Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick.