Wednesday, March 26, 2025
6:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Scheuer Auditorium

Join us for a conversation between James S. Snyder, Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director, and artist Deborah Kass on her work in the Jewish Museum’s collection and recent projects.

About the Speakers: 

Deborah Kass is an artist whose work examines the intersection of art history, popular culture and the self. Her work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, The Guggenheim Museum, The Jewish Museum, The Museum of Fine Art, Boston, The New Orleans Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, as well as numerous other museums and private collections.

Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. The Andy Warhol Museum presented Deborah Kass, Before and Happily Ever After, Mid- Career Retrospective in 2012 with a catalogue published by Rizzoli. Her sculpture OY/YO is permanently installed in front of the Brooklyn Museum, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, and the Weitzman Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.

She currently has an exhibition The Art History Paintings 1989-1992 at Salon 94 in New York City.

Kass has served on the board of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and currently serves on the board of the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. 

James S. Snyder began his tenure as the Jewish Museum’s Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director in November 2023, after serving since 2019 as Executive Chair of The Jerusalem Foundation, Inc. He is also Director Emeritus of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, where he served as the Anne and Jerome Fisher Director from 1997 through 2016 and then as International President through 2018.  He is also a Senior Fellow of the Middle East Initiative at Harvard’s Kennedy School. During his tenure as Director of the Israel Museum, Snyder led the Museum through the most dramatic period of growth since its founding and secured its stature as one of the world’s foremost museums. Prior to his appointment at the Israel Museum, Snyder held a number of positions at The Museum of Modern Art culminating as Deputy Director from 1986 to 1996.

Tickets: $18 General; $15 Students and Seniors; $12 Jewish Museum members

Doors open at 6 pm; Includes Museum Admission

The Morris W. Offit Lecture Series at the Jewish Museum is made possible in part by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation.