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
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.
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.
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!
ON HANUKKAH - AND AN IMAGE OF A MENORAH CURRENTLY ON VIEW @YUM
What a fantastic discussion of the scholarly debates around Hanukkah. Even better, you can see this very menorah in the … silver… at YUM right now in our newly opened holiday exhibition. Check it out next time you’re in the museum!
16th Street: Using the Archives to Reflect on Your Hanukkah Experience
by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian - Collections, Center for Jewish History
Hanukkah Lamp. Galicia or Ukraine, ca. 1800. Silver: cast, filigree, engraved. The Max Stern Collection, Yeshiva University Museum. This lamp is of the Ba’al Shem Tov type, named after the founder…
AN ERUV WITH LASERS, OR THE LASER ERUV
From artist Elliot Malkin
I’m sitting here, gathering notes and a plan for an eventual exhibition on the Eruv, a special physical and legal construction that makes it possible for Jews to carry certain objects on the Sabbath. It essentially encloses certain types of public spaces to create a communal, Jewish private space. Pretty nifty, eh?
Well, in THIS incarnation, there’s another step: Lasers. As artist Elliot Malkin devised in this this fascinating project, some of the difficulties that come about with maintaining and Eruv can be overcome with the user of … Lasers. Then again, this would certainly be a point for debate.
Check out Malkin’s work at his website: http://dziga.com/laser/
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.
