Yeshiva University Museum (NYC)

RSVP TODAY! - ARTISTS AND CURATOR TOUR MAY 8, 6 PM @YUMUSEUM

Art with Strings and Lasers! There’s still time to see this! Join me tomorrow night!

Get a behind-the-scenes look of the exhibition It’s a Thin Line: The Eruv and Jewish Community in New York and Beyond with curator Zachary Paul Levine and artists R. Justin Stewart and Elliott Malkin.
Please join us for a discussion-based tour on the role and value of art installation in the eruv-themed exhibition, followed by a private wine reception with the curator and artists.
6:00pm – Tour and Discussion
7:00pm – Young Friends of YU Museum Wine Reception
Free; Reservations required.
Please contact Barb Adelman at badelman@yum.cjh.org or 212-294-8339

*Images: Extrusion, by R. Justin Stewart (left), Laser Eruv, by Elliott Malkin (right)

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RSVP TODAY! - ARTISTS AND CURATOR TOUR MAY 8, 6 PM @YUMUSEUM

Art with Strings and Lasers! There’s still time to see this! Join me tomorrow night!

Get a behind-the-scenes look of the exhibition It’s a Thin Line: The Eruv and Jewish Community in New York and Beyond with ME! curator Zachary Paul Levine and artists R. Justin Stewart and Elliott Malkin.

Please join us for a discussion-based tour on the role and value of art installation in the eruv-themed exhibition, followed by a private wine reception with the curator and artists.
6:00pm – Tour and Discussion
7:00pm – Young Friends of YU Museum Wine Reception

Free; Reservations required.
Please contact Barb Adelman at badelman@yum.cjh.org or 212-294-8339

*Images: Extrusion, by R. Justin Stewart (left), Laser Eruv, by Elliott Malkin (right)

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IT’S A THIN LINE: THE ERUV AND JEWISH SPACE IN NEW YORK AND BEYOND

Opening October 29th, 2012

Learn more at http://yumuseum.tumblr.com/ItsAThinLine

From “The Daily Show” to Rabbinic and City Hall Debates, Eruvs Still Generate Controversy. It divides private and public, sacred and secular, work and Sabbath. And you might live in one without knowing it. With its main focus on New York City, New Jersey, and the surrounding communities, the exhibition also provides a vivid picture of local urban history through the stories of individual communities, religious figures and debates.

The eruv is one of the most fascinating, though little understood and sometimes controversial concepts in Jewish life. It is not just a concept. It’s also a physical creation that powerfully affects the lives of observant Jews. Without an eruv, parents couldn’t even carry their children on the Sabbath. It’s a Thin Line traces the history of the eruv and its adaptation into New York’s urban environment, and raises provocative questions. With 130 artifacts spanning over five centuries, It’s a Thin Line vividly illustrates how an ancient Biblical precept has been creatively interpreted and applied – especially in and around New York City. Objects range from some of the first Hebrew books ever printed to century-old images of New York life to contemporary tools and recent eruv artifacts to eruv-themed works by contemporary artists.

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HOT DOG, GET YOUR HOT DOG!

Miss yesterday’s Coney Island eating contest? Worry not…

When I think of July 4^th in New York,Coney Island comes to mind. There are so many fun things to do, but who can forget about the hot dog eating contest. Tourists are told that it can’t be missed, but I’m not so sure that my stomach can handle it. This photograph from the 1930s is a classic! If you’re jumping on a boat like this happy group make sure to hold on. If not, eat a hot dog or two for me… I’ll be staying away from them.

Photograph, ca. 1930. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum (1999.117).

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MAMA - I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND

When was the last time you held your mother’s hand? Try doing it this Mother’s Day, May 13!

This postcard features a photograph of a Tunisian Jewish woman and her daughter holding hands while standing on a shore. The woman’s robes and conical headdress are representative of the traditional dress of Jewish Tunisian women during the early 20th century.

Postcard. Neurdein et Cie. Paris, France, early 20th century. Paper, printed. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum (2006.232).

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LAST WEEK TO SEE PROPHECY OF PLACE: QUINTAN ANA WIKSWO

Show closes Sunday, so get to YUM as soon as you can!

1 year ago 5 notes

IT’S A BIG WORLD - IT MUST BE TU B’SHVAT SOMEWHERE, PT 4

How do you like your sheep? I hope walking through town is ok! This postcard is from what is today one of the furthest northern and windiest towns in Israel. Like many other Zionist settlements, it started as an agricultural community, and the trees whose birthdays we just celebrated, were planted to make the area more comfortable and habitable… and to give fruit. You might note the absence of much in the way of trees outside of town.

Metulla, a Jewish Village on the Syrian Boarder

Beautiful Palestine Series 1, No 30

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TIME TO HIT THE BOOKS-BACK TO SCHOOL!

The first days of school are always filled with great expectations. This year will bring knowledge and inevitably lots of homework. Be prepared this year and achieve your best GPA yet. Just look how studious these girls are in their Brooklyn classroom in 1934.

Slide. Girls Learning in a Classroom. Yeshiva University Museum (2009.555) Gift of Av Rivel

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DREAM BIG OR GO HOME-BACK TO SCHOOL!

College is the opportunity of a lifetime. In addition to providing great friends and inspiring teachers, higher education helps you to nurture your dreams. Dream big this semester…Dream of being an artist like these students!

Photograph showing men and a woman seated in a brightly-lighted room. In the center of their chairs are three benches, one topped by a pot on three feet; the second with a classical bust of a man (the poet Homer); the third with striding lion. An older man stands by the chair of one of the students. At the far end of the room is a six-pointed star above a cabinet containing busts. #37.

Slide. Technicum (Technion) - Drawing [class]. Yeshiva University Museum, New York (2009.435). Gift of Av Rivel

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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

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WIKSWO - of PROPHECY OF PLACE - IN TIN HOUSE

(From Plaza of the Inquisition and the Jewish Ghetto in Porto)

In her second appearance in Tin House, Quintan Ana Wikswo’s THE LITTLE KRETSCHMAR locates a series of eerie and unsettling secrets in wartime, along with paper birds and scissors and saunas. Wikswo’s work appears alongside others who wrangle with the beauty of strangeness in the 50th anniversary “Beauty” issue of Tin House magazine.

You can see Wikswo’s breathtaking works in Prophecy of Place, on view through February.

1 year ago 2 notes

WIKSWO - of PROPHECY OF PLACE - IN TIN HOUSE

WIKSWO - of PROPHECY OF PLACE - IN TIN HOUSE

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