Fall 2018 Season of Public Programs at the Jewish Museum

New York, NY, September 20, 2018 - The Jewish Museum kicks off its fall 2018 season of family programs in September with lectures, panel discussions, adult studio workshops, and more.

Highlights include fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi in conversation with author Caroline Weber on October 11; an author talk with artist Maira Kalman and her son Alex Kalman on November 7; and appearances by Marc Chagall’s granddaughter Bella Meyer on December 6 and noted architect Daniel Libeskind on December 13 in conjunction with the exhibition Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922.

Further program and ticket information is available by calling 212.423.3337 or online at TheJewishMuseum.org/TalksPerformances. All programs are at the Jewish Museum, Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street, Manhattan.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Lecture: Chagall on Loan: Nazi-Era Provenance Research and Art as Collateral
The Salo W. Baron Program
Thursday, October 4, 6:30 pm
Tickets: $18 General; $15 Students and Seniors; $12 Jewish Museum members
Lynn Rother, Senior Provenance Specialist at The Museum of Modern Art, explores the hidden story behind Marc Chagall’s painting Over Vitebsk, focusing on the challenges of provenance research as it relates to art as collateral and the hidden aspects of the art market.

Author Talk: Proust’s Duchess, with Isaac Mizrahi and Caroline Weber
Thursday, October 11, 6:30 pm
Tickets: $18 General; $15 Students and Seniors; $12 Jewish Museum members
Fashion designer and artist Isaac Mizrahi and author Caroline Weber will discuss Weber’s new book Proust’s Duchess, an in-depth study of the three women who inspired Marcel Proust’s character, the Duchesse de Guermantes, in Remembrance of Things Past. Caroline Weber is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard College.

Adult Studio Workshop: Abstraction Through Language
Sunday, October 14, 2 pm
Course Fee: $120 General; $100 Jewish Museum Members; all materials included, all skill levels welcome
Participants will explore abstraction in the Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich exhibition with contemporary artist Yevgeniya Baras, translating letters into abstract forms and creating original composition in acrylic on canvas.

Lecture: Joachim Pissarro
James L. Weinberg Distinguished Lecture
Tuesday, October 23, 6:30 pm
Tickets: $18 General; $15 Students and Seniors; $12 Jewish Museum members
Joachim Pissarro, Director of the Hunter College Galleries, speaks about the work of his great-grandfather, Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, whose work is currently on view in Scenes from the Collection, the Jewish Museum’s collection exhibition.

Author Talk: Sara Berman’s Closet, with Maira Kalman and Alex Kalman
Wednesday, November 7, 10:30 am 
Tickets: $85 General; $76 Jewish Museum members. Includes a sit down breakfast at Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum and a copy of Sara Berman’s Closet.
Artist/illustrator Maira Kalman, whose work is in the collection of the Jewish Museum, and her son, designer Alex Kalman, will speak over breakfast about their new family memoir, Sara Berman’s Closet, exploring the life and objects of Maira Kalman’s mother.

Adult Studio Workshop: Drawing Connections: Portraiture
Wednesday, November 14, 2 pm
Course Fee: $30 General; $25 Jewish Museum members; all materials included, all skill levels welcome
Participants will learn a variety of techniques including contour, line, and gesture drawing based on close looking at works of art in Scenes from the Collection.

Concert: Jenny Lin
Thursday, November 15, 7:30 pm
Presented with Bang on a Can
Tickets: $20 General; $16 Students and Seniors; $12 Jewish Museum Members
Concert pianist Jenny Lin performs works by Soviet-era composer Galina Ustvolskaya and American minimalist master Philip Glass.

This Is How We Do It: Accumulations: Hanukkah Lamps
Tuesday, December 4, 2 pm
Free with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission; RSVP Recommended
Senior Curator Susan L. Braunstein speaks about the process of organizing the newest selection of Hanukkah lamps on view in Scenes from the Collection.

Lecture: Bella Meyer
Thursday, December 6, 6:30 pm
The Gertrude and David Fogelson Lecture
Tickets: $18 General; $15 Students and Seniors; $12 Jewish Museum Members
Bella Meyer, Marc Chagall’s granddaughter, shares childhood memories and provides personal insight into his involvement as Fine Arts Commissar in Vitebsk and founder of the revolutionary People’s Art School.

Discourse and Dialogue: Lazar Khidekel's Legacy
Thursday, December 13, 6:30 pm
The Saul and Harriet M. Rothkopf Media Program
Tickets: $18 General; $15 Students and Seniors; $12 Jewish Museum Members
This program explores the legacy of Lazar Khidekel, one of the artists to attend the Vitebsk school, with noted architect Daniel Libeskind, art historian Regina Khidekel (daughter-in-law of the artist), and Maria Kokkori, Visiting Lecturer, Art Institute of Chicago.

Gallery Talks
Select Fridays at 2 pm
Free with Museum Admission; RSVP Recommended
Thematic explorations of select works of art in current exhibitions.

Fridays, October 12 and 19; November 2, 9, 16; and December 7 and 14
Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant Garde in Vitesbsk, 1918 - 1922

Friday, October 26
Scenes from the Collection: Figuration and Abstraction

Friday, November 30
Scenes from the Collection: Conceptual Art and the Sacred


Support
Public programs are made possible by endowment support from the William Petschek Family, the Trustees of the Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Foundation, Barbara and Benjamin Zucker, the late William W. Hallo, the late Susanne Hallo Kalem, the late Ruth Hallo Landman, the Marshall M. Weinberg Fund, with additional support from Marshall M. Weinberg, the Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc., the Saul and Harriet M. Rothkopf Family Foundation, and Ellen Liman. Additional support is provided through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.