Tuesday, December 3, 2024
6 – 7 pm EST
Zoom, Virtual Program

Join us for a virtual walkthrough of two Jewish Museum exhibitions, past and present, both of which use the language of graphic arts to confront legacies of white supremacy, antisemitism, and racism. First, explore the Museum’s current show Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston, (November 8, 2024 - March 30, 2025) which brings together the work of two trailblazing American artists from different generations for the first time. Jewish painter Philip Guston (1913-1980) was a defining figure of twentieth-century avant-garde art, and Trenton Doyle Hancock (b. 1974) a leading Black contemporary artist and cartoonist known for his layered canvases, both draw on the language of comics to challenge and comment upon the American condition. Then experience Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective (November 8, 2013 - March 23, 2014) which celebrated the career of one of the most influential living comic artists. Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) is best known for Maus, a Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust and has produced a diverse body of work over the course of five decades that has blurred the boundaries between “high” and “low” art. This first U.S. retrospective spanned his early days in underground “comix” to more recent work including his provocative covers for The New Yorker. Each artist, in their own way, turn personal experiences into transformative works of art.

Tickets: $30 General; $24 Jewish Museum members

Each tour is led by a Jewish Museum educator and is one hour in length including Q&A. Classes take place over Zoom.

Please note that this is a live virtual two-session class, which will not be recorded for later viewing. Ticket purchase is includes both sessions on December 3 and 10.