Focused on the years 1962–1964, a program by Film at Lincoln Center pairs with a Jewish Museum exhibition and a survey at Film Forum.
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New York’s Jewish Museum Staff Push to Unionize
The union would include art handlers, curators, development staff, educators, visitor experience and retail employees, and other administrative staff.
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Exhibiting the Afterlives of Looted Art
The Jewish Museum delves into “degenerate” art and art made under duress as part of a thought-provoking yet diffuse exhibition.
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Is It Fair to Call Louise Bourgeois “Freud’s Daughter”?
It’s a good bet that being called his daughter would have made Bourgeois hopping mad.
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Louise Bourgeois’s Long Relationship With Psychoanalysis
For all of its emphasis on unraveling, the most intriguing works in Freud’s Daughter are often the most abstruse ones.
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The Jewish Museum Presents a Panel on Lawrence Weiner’s Latest Installation
Hear from artists, community activists, and cultural theorists as they discuss the impact of public artworks and the role of museums in achieving equity.
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The Trove of Hanukkah Treasures In New York City’s Public Collections
A bright pink silicon menorah in the Jewish Museum, a pair of Hanukkah hymns from a medieval prayer book in the New York Public Library, and other gems.
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Where Does Protest Art Fit in the “Canon” of Contemporary Art?
We Fight to Build a Free World prompts the question of whether political artworks can truly convey their own radicalism within the halls of an Upper East Side museum.
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Michael Rakowitz Discusses Withdrawing from the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and His Leonard Cohen Problem
The artist shares his thoughts on museums, power, art, and ideology.
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The Leonard Cohen Show Is a Shallow Response to the Musician’s Legacy
An archival show has to be judged, in part, by the depth to which it mines the archive.
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The Soviet Art School that Cemented Suprematism’s Spot in History
For a brief moment, Soviet Russia looked like Camelot, and artists like Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, and El Lissitzky banded together to paint the way toward that utopian future with the People’s Art School in modern-day Belarus.
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“The Carcass and the Canvas” and Other Chaim Soutine Stories
If there is a single point of agreement in the posthumous literature on Chaim Soutine, it is that the Lithuanian-born Jewish artist is surrounded by legend.