Museum Events Generate Attention and Interest in Provocative Genesis Exhibition

Activist Performance Art & Literary Program Provide New Insights to the Story of Creation

NEW YORK, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Yeshiva University Museum and a group of New York artists and writers welcome the new decade by sharing groundbreaking work inspired by one of the world's oldest stories: the story of Creation. Art lovers and history buffs alike will be intrigued by the museum's varied selection of contemporary art and writings responding to the Book of Genesis alongside rare historic books and manuscripts, ranging in date from the 13th -18th centuries.

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ART AND ACTIVISM

This Sunday, January 24, artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles invites the public to commit to a single act of social justice and contribute to an art project called A Day of Transfer and Exchange. Eighty-seven (87) museum visitors and countless online participants will do their part to help "repair the world." Upon completion of an elaborate ceremony with the artist held at 12 noon and 3pm, museum visitors will leave with their own double-sided mirrors, which act as physical reminders to uphold their commitments.  

Click here to PARTICIPATE online, email [email protected] or call 212-294-8330, extension 8816 to RSVP

LITERARY SALON

On Wednesday, February 3, the museum presents a FREE literary program called Writers on View:  4th Annual Writers READ. Five contemporary writers will present entirely new work, commissioned to respond to the museum's Genesis exhibition. Fiction writers Dara Horn and Gabriel Brownstein; poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht; poet, translator, and publisher Henry Israeli; and, poet and essayist Sima Rabinowitz will share original stories and poems with exhibition artists and event attendees.  Audience participation will help inform some of the poems. Co-sponsored by the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the event includes an exhibition viewing at 6pm, and literary readings from 7 - 8:30 pm.  RSVP to [email protected] or call 212-294-8330, extension 8816

LAST MONTH OF GENESIS EXHIBITION, MORE RARE BOOKS IN MARCH

With just one month left in its run, In The Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis showcases the work of five internationally acclaimed contemporary artists: Alan Berliner, Matthew Ritchie, Ben Rubin, Shirley Shor and Mierle Laderman Ukeles; a collection of extraordinary historic Bibles and a provocative video documentary. Originally organized by the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, the exhibition has been adapted by the Yeshiva University Museum for this presentation.

Opening March 21, A Journey Through Jewish Worlds: Highlights from the Braginsky Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books, provides a rare opportunity to view beautifully illustrated texts and manuscripts from Europe and Asia, from the Middle Ages through the early 20th century.

To learn more, see www.yumuseum.org

SOURCE Yeshiva University