Expanded Series of Lectures, Conversations, and Events Begins in October at Jewish Museum
By: Robert Diamond Oct. 08, 2013
The Jewish Museum's diverse program offerings in October include gallery talks with artists Elaine Reichek and the avant-garde fashion collective threeASFOUR; an author talk with feminist writer and artist Helène Aylon; a behind-the-scenes tour of threeASFOUR: MER KA BA with Assistant Curator Rebecca Shakyin; and a re-examination of Karl Marx's philosophy in a discussion moderated by communications scholar Liel Leibovitz. These programs are part of an expanded series of lectures, conversations, and events presented by the Museum throughout the fall.
For further information regarding these programs, visit TheJewishMuseum.org/calendar or call212.423.3200.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE - OCTOBER 2013
Writers and Artists Respond: Elaine Reichek
Thursday, October 10, 6:30pm
Artist Elaine Reichek will discuss A Postcolonial Kinderhood Revisited, a room-size exhibition that draws inspiration from the Early American décor of the artist's childhood bedroom. This program is part of Writers and Artists Respond, a series of thought provoking discussions and performances by artists, musicians and writers in The Jewish Museum's galleries.
A Postcolonial Kinderhood Revisited combines linguistic, photographic, decorative and textile elements, parodying period rooms in historic houses and art museums while exploring complexities of American Jewish identity, assimilation, multiculturalism, and feminism with wit and startling power. The Jewish Museum commissioned Elaine Reichek to create this work in 1993 and originally exhibited it in 1994. A Postcolonial Kinderhood was created at the apex of American exhibitions dealing with multiculturalism and identity politics. One of the earliest major works to confront the paradoxes of American Jewish identity, it remains resonant today. The reinstallation with some new elements created by the artist is on view through October 20, 2013.
Free with Pay-What-You-Wish admission - reservations are required
Hard Talks: Was Karl Marx Right?
Liel Leibovitz and David Mikics
Thursday, October 17, 6:30pm
Exactly 130 years after his death, is it possible to revisit the work of Karl Marx and discover that for all the terrors wrought by his followers, that the man himself might have been absolutely right? Is it time to take Marx seriously again, or is his legacy forever tainted by the massive failures of Communism? This program is the first in a new series moderated by author and communications scholar Liel Leibovitz, featuring speakers with strongly opposing points of view addressing some of the most probing and provocative questions in intellectual history.
Liel Leibovitz, visiting Assistant Professor at NYU Steinhardt, is author The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election, and a contributor to the Los Angeles Times,The Atlantic Monthly, Dissent, and Tablet. He will be joined by David Mikics, John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor in the English Department and Honors College, University of Houston, and another speaker (to be announced). Mikics reviews for The New Republic's book blog, "The Book," and is on the council of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers (ALSCW).
Free with Pay-What-You-Wish admission - reservations are required
This is How We Do It: threeASFOUR: MER KA BA
Tuesday, October 22, 11:30am
Rebecca Shaykin, Leon Levy Assistant Curator, discusses the process of developing and organizing threeASFOUR: MER KA BA. This talk will take place in the café followed by a brief exhibition walkthrough.
The multimedia installation threeASFOUR: MER KA BA by the adventurous fashion collective threeASFOUR fuses avant-garde couture, architecture, and video projections. Blending ancient symbols with new technologies to evoke a timeless desire for cross-cultural unity, the exhibition includes examples from threeASFOUR's new spring-summer 2014 collection, featuring 3D-printed textiles made in collaboration with the architect Bradley Rothenberg. The clothing line and its environment are inspired by sacred geometry and tile patterns found in synagogues, churches, and mosques around the world. threeASFOUR: MER KA BA is presented by The Jewish Museum and Art Production Fund, and is on view through February 2, 2014
Free with Museum Admission
Writers and Artists Respond: threeASFOUR
Thursday, October 24, 6:30pm
Gabriel Asfour, Adi Gil, and Angela Donhauser - designers of the avant-garde fashion collective threeASFOUR - and exhibition collaborator Christian Wassmann discuss their latest project, the Museum's current exhibition threeASFOUR: MER KA BA. This program is part of Writers and Artists Respond, a series of thought provoking discussions and performances by artists, musicians and writers in The Jewish Museum's galleries.
Gabriel Asfour (b. Beirut, 1966), Angela Donhauser (b. Dushanbe, 1971), and Adi Gil (b. Tel Aviv, 1974), first worked together under the clothing label AsFOUR in 1998. Since 2005 the trio has been known as threeASFOUR. Their experimental designs have been exhibited at the Musée Galliera - Musée de la Ville, Paris (2002), Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (2003), the Museum at FIT (2005), and the Mode Bi?nnale Arnheim (2007, 2011). Their clothing designs are in the Permanent Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2007 threeASFOUR collaborated with artist Matthew Barney on the performance piece The Guardian of the Veil, staged at the Manchester Opera House. The designers also worked with artist Matthew Ritchie on the live performance ofHypermusic: Ascension at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2010. They have collaborated on ready-to-wear collections with Kate Spade (2005), and Gap (2007). Among the label's supporters are Björk and Yoko Ono.
Free with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission - reservations are required
Helène Aylon
Monday, October 28, 11:30am
Artist and activist Helène Aylon discusses her recent memoir, Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist, published by the Feminist Press in 2012.
Helène Aylon is a visual, conceptual, installation performance artist and eco-feminist whose art has often focused on "rescuing" The Body in the 70's, The Earth in the 80's, and God in the 90's to the present. Her multimedia work, The Liberation of G-d, is part of The Jewish Museum's collection and was included in the 1996 exihibition, Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities.
Tickets: $15 adults; $12 students/seniors; $10 Jewish Museum members
Public Programs at The Jewish Museum are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Major annual support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The stage lighting system has been funded by the Office of Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer.
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