Exhibition Catalog
The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation exhibition catalog is now available for purchase online and on-site in The Spertus Shop.
144 pages
$29.95
Exhibitions
Inaugural Exhibition
Through April 13, 2008
The New Authentics:
Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation
“The New Authentics” are 21st-century American Jews. Free to choose their affiliations, they are Jewish culturally, religiously, spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, partially, biologically, or invisibly. The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation, curated by Spertus Museum Senior Curator Staci Boris, explores contemporary notions of Jewish identity through the work of 16 artists living in the United States. Engaged in the global art community, these artists insert traces of, consciously draw from, or directly address their experiences as Jews, and they are brought together here for the first time in a Jewish context. Their work demonstrates how today, associations with Jewish culture intermingle with issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, politics, history, and nationality, posing questions, challenging boundaries, and defying easy definition.
Images left to Right: Ludwig Schwarz, Untitled (Wiggles #2), 2003 Oil on canvas | Shoshanna Weinberger Strange Fruit, 2005 Gouache and collage on paper | Shoshana Dentz home lands #13, 2004 Oil and gouache on canvas
Artists: David Altmejd, Cheselyn Amato, Johanna Bresnick, Shoshana Dentz, Lilah Freedland, Matthew Girson, Karl Haendel, Laura Kina, Fawn Krieger, Jin Meyerson, Collier Schorr, Mindy Rose Schwartz, Ludwig Schwarz, Joel Tauber, Shoshanna Weinberger, and Jennifer Zackin.
Exhibition-related Programs
Lecture
Thursday, March 6 at 6 pm
David A. Hollinger on
Post-Jewish Themes in Modern American History
$8 | $5 for students and Spertus members
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In conjunction with Spertus Museum's inaugural exhibition The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation, David A. Hollinger, one of the United States’ foremost intellectual historians will address a variety of episodes in modern U.S. history to which the concept of post-Jewishness can be applied.
David A. Hollinger is Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent books include Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism, Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity, and Science, Jews, and Secular Culture. He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was formerly Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford.
Panel Discussion
Thursday, April 10 at 6 pm
Re-envisioning Difference:
Notes from
the Forefront of Culturally Specific Museums
$8 | $5 for students and Spertus members
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Robin Cembalest, executive editor of ARTnews moderates a panel exploring the challenges and the missions of culturally specific art museums in the 21st century, including Melissa Chiu, Director of Asia Society Museum, New York; Romi Crawford, Curator and Director of Education and Public Programs at The Studio Museum in Harlem; Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs, El Museo del Barrio, New York; and Rhoda Rosen, Director of Spertus Museum.