A Closer Look Gallery Talks

Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey

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Thursday, February 18, 2016
6 – 6:30 pm
Exhibition Galleries

What’s in a Name?

Join us for an in-depth conversation on concealed, confronted, and refuted identities in two works of art in the Jewish Museum’s permanent collection —Ken Aptekar’s I Hate the Name Kenneth and Robert Arneson’s Simon ‘n Rastus. This program will feature ASL interpretation.

Free with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission

Ken Aptekar, I Hate the Name Kenneth, 1996. Oil on wood with sandblasted glass and bolts. 69 × 120 7/8 × 3 in.

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