LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO SUNDAY? OLD AND THE NEW CLOSES SUNDAY!
Visit the show page and visit the gallery… before it all goes to Prague!
* Image: Three Torah mantles made by artist Mark Podwal, commissioned by the Jewish community in Prague. They will be installed in the Old-New Synagogue this coming March.
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO SUNDAY? JEWS ON VINYL CLOSES SUNDAY!
Visit the show page and visit the gallery… before it’s too late!
*Image: Marty Allen and Steve Rossi, Batman and Rubin, Mercury, 1967, Courtesy of Josh Kun and Roger Bennett
CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF HANUKKAH
Ok, it’s been nearly a month since the Festival of Lights concluded, but we just can’t help ourselves, what with the smell of latkes STILL infusing the walls and furniture.
This unique Hanukkah lamp, made out of iron, can be seen as not quite kosher with its non-linear alignment of the eight candle holders, however, its interesting curvatures and minimaslic approach is quite enduring.
Hanukkah lamp. Palombo, David (ca. 1950), Iron. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum (2006.262), Gift of Dr. Richard Klein.
Happy New Year! May 2012 be filled with happiness and joy
This postcard includes four children, two boys and two girls, blowing white horns. The Yiddish on the postcard translates to:
“The children march along
Like corporals
A children’s band
They toot and blast
Greetings they bear
Blessings they offer
And New Year’s wishes
Any takers out there?”
The year has just begun, which could only mean one thing at YUM… More exhibitions, artifacts, history, and art to share with all of you! Don’t forget to update yourself with our exhibition page so you won’t miss a show! Check out YUM’s exhibition page!
Postcard. Publisher: Williamsburg Art Co.(ca. 1915) Saxony, Germany. Yeshiva University Museum, New York (2005.065). Gift of Deborah Karp.
WHO’S GOT THE HEAVIER LOAD?
This attractive silhouette was from a set of 10 postcards by artists Meir Gur-Arie and L. Zeidman, which depict and idealized image of street life of Jerusalem during the first few decades of the 20th century.
This one in particular seems to show water carrier walking between a goat (right) and a second person (perhaps a merchant?) traveling by donkey.
From the partners’ collections: An Idyl
Creator: Meir Gur-Arie and L. Zeidman
Date: 1933
Medium: printed
Persistent URL: http://museums.cjh.org/Display.php?irn=14336
Repository: Yeshiva University Museum
Accession number: 2005.141
Rights statement: Click here.Visit our Flickr photostream for more from the partners’ collections.
POETICS OF PLACE - 1/12 6-8 PM @YUMUSEUM. Get your tickets today!
Yeshiva University Museum, Drunken Boat, and Tin House present POETICS OF PLACE, a literary performance and response to the exhibition Prophecy of Place: Quintan Ana Wikswo.
Join us on January 12 for a multimedia performance featuring new fiction and
poetry by Drunken Boat editor Ravi Shankar, David and Ruth Gottesman
Professor of English at Stern College of Yeshiva University and Drunken Boat
author Joy Ladin, and Yeshiva University Honors College Artist-in-Residence
Quintan Ana Wikswo reading from her new short story in Tin House.
6pm: Exhibition walk-through with the artist and exhibition curator
7pm: Performance and a conversation with the writers by Ravi Shankar, and
introduction by Joanne Jacobson, Professor of English at Yeshiva University
The event is free, but reservations are required. www.smarttix.com or (212) 868-4444.
Click HERE for exhibition information and images
Click HERE to make a reservation
Sponsored by Yeshiva University Museum, Drunken Boat, and Tin House
YU MUSEUM’S NEW VIMEO PAGE!
Come visit YUM’s new Vimeo page where you can (just beginning) view exhibition videos and more!
RECORD ALBUM MOSAIC … THE JEWISH KIND!
At the entrance to YUM’s exhibition Jews on Vinyl you’ll find a fantastic, floor-to-ceiling mosaic comprised of gorgeous record albums covers. Some from familiar songsters of the 1950s and 1960s, and others a bit more esoteric, illustrate the incredible impact of Jewish folk music on American popular music in the 20th century. The exhibition runs through January 15th, so get yourself over to YUM before it closes.
Photograph by Dina Horowitz for Yeshiva University Museum, 2010
Jews on Vinyl was adapted from an earlier exhibition created by the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
DEVASTATINGLY BEAUTIFUL: QAW’S SCHWARZER TOD AND THE USELESS EATERS [EXCERPT]
From artist Quintan Ana Wikswo comes a story that merges the world of 1360 with 1939 in the Black Forest, where a Jewish boy attempts to escape atrocity through fable and imagination.
The complete video is one of many pieces currently on view in Prophecy of Place: Quintan Ana Wikswo, through February 2012.
original text photography and video by Quintan Ana Wikswo
music by Veronika Krausas
voice by Mischa Livingstone
translation into Hebrew by Osnat Naor
translation into German by Dorothea Herreiner
text first published in Denver Quarterly
VISIT YUM’S FACEBOOK PAGE LATELY?
A bunch of new photo sets! A place to respond and be responded to! Visit YUM there, and then come visit YUM in person!
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