Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock confronts history and horror in “Step and Screw Part Too Soon Underneath the Bloody Moon” (2018), on view in “Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston” at the Jewish Museum.
Hancock’s protagonist and alter ego, Torpedoboy, charges forward, trailed by a grotesque Klansman whose red noose coils through his own body like exposed entrails. Philip Guston’s influence is unmistakable—the hooded figure, the visceral physicality—but Hancock’s perspective is entirely his own, offering a searing commentary on bigotry, violence, and moral ambiguity in American society.
Explore the full audio guide, including archival recordings of Guston’s voice, on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app.
#HancockGuston #BloombergConnects
Intern with us this summer! The Jewish Museum invites current or recently graduated college or university students from all backgrounds to apply for our Summer Institute, a paid, full-time, nine-week internship program!
The Summer Institute combines work experience in a department at the Jewish Museum, such as Education, Curatorial, or Development, with independent study and topical group discussions and field trips. Learn about every aspect of work at the Jewish Museum, discuss museums and other cultural organizations with a focus on institutional reckoning and social change, and imagine the future of museum work with a group of your peers. Guest speakers include artists, curators, writers, and other innovators in the art world.
Applications are due February 18. Summer Institute interns will work a hybrid schedule and must be able to work in-person at the Museum at least three days per week.
Learn more and apply now:
https://thejewishmuseum.org/careers/position-information/jm-summer-institute
“Your community isn’t necessarily the community that’s next door to you. A community can be across time. A community can be across culture. You can look back through time and find new relationships, and I think that’s, in some ways, what this show promotes the most. — Trenton Doyle Hancock
Explore entwined legacies of white supremacism and antisemitism through works by two trailblazing American artists in “Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston.”
The exhibition is on view through March 30, 2025. Plan your visit to the Jewish Museum today.
https://thejewishmuseum.org/press/press-release/draw-them-in-paint-them-out-trenton-doyle-hancock-confronts-philip-guston
📹: Video by SandenWolff
Curator Rebecca Shaykin and artist Trenton Doyle Hancock explore “Schlep and Screw, Knowledge Rental Pawn Exchange Service” (2017), featured in “Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston” at the Jewish Museum.
The work depicts a striking encounter between Hancock’s alter-ego, Torpedo Boy, and one of Philip Guston’s infamous Klansmen, set against a lush, symbolic backdrop. With a serpent coiling through the scene and a Klansman offering Torpedo Boy an apple, Hancock evokes the biblical moment of the Original Sin—a powerful reflection on temptation, power, and cultural history.
Listen to the full audio guide and archival transcriptions featuring Guston's voice in our digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app.
#HancockGuston #BloombergConnects
In 2019, Michal Rovner began filming and drawing the wild poppies that grow in a field by her home in Israel. Titled “Pragim”—Hebrew for “poppies”—the ongoing project explores the power and fragility of the flower, a symbol of remembrance, hope, and resilience. In the “Pragim” series, Rovner evokes the human condition, centering universal issues of identity, place, dislocation, and vulnerability. The title of this work, "Dark Light," connects to complex regional conflicts of the past and present. The hypnotic fluttering movements and voluptuous forms of the poppies question the coexistence of beauty and violence in nature.
“I present situations of conflict, tensions, fractures. I always begin with reality. I record it, and subsequently, little by little, I extract the image of reality, which [loses] its own definition and therefore brings something else.” — Michal Rovner
“Dark Light” is on view in "Engaging with History: Works from the Collection" through January 5, 2025: https://thejm.net/3TnPYKr
🎨: #MichalRovner, "Dark Light," 2024, from the Pragim series, Two-channel digital video installation, color, no sound, looped. #JewishMuseumCollection
It's time for an Art Break! Create a whimsical sculpture inspired by Jeremiah Maloi's "Masinekele — Let us Give" in celebration of the Fall Jewish holidays.
Materials:
Paper straws
Pipe cleaners
Scissors
Small beads
Large bead
String
Markers
Reusable container
Post your creations using #ArtBreak and tag @TheJewishMuseum!
Shana Tovah from all of us at the Jewish Museum!
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In observance of Rosh Hashanah, the Museum is closed Thursday, October 3 and Friday, October 4.
Art Break: Mixed Media Drawing inspired by "Cow" by Ilana Savdie
With the first week back to school over, it's time to relax with an Art Break! 🖍️ Create a mixed media drawing inspired by the materials and textures in Ilana Savdie's painting, "Cow," which is currently on view in the exhibition #OverflowAfterglow through September 15! 🎨
Materials:
Paper
White or light-colored crayon
Paintbrush
Watercolors
Pencil or markers
Post your creations using #ArtBreak and tag @TheJewishMuseum!
September at the Jewish Museum
Check out our upcoming programs this September! Join us for access programs, special talks, and more!
🔗 For more information and to register for programs, visit our web calendar: https://thejm.net/48pIfS6
#DeafAwarenessMonth #ASL #ASLPrograms #ASLProgramsNYC
JM Talks: Liz Munsell on Overflow, Afterglow
Curator Liz Munsell joined us in the galleries to tell us more about the exhibition “Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration,” on view through September 15, in this #JMTalks video!
#OverflowAfterglow features works by:
Austin Martin White
Sara Issakharian
Sasha Gordon
Chella Man • • •
Sula Bermudez-Silverman
Ilana Savdie
Rosha Yaghmai
Learn more and plan your visit: https://thejm.net/3TJGUz5
“(last)Bacchanal(pity party) after B. Thompson” by Austin Martin White
In #AustinMartinWhite’s work, paint oozes out from the surface of the picture plane, escaping its limits. Learn about the artist’s process and work, “(last)Bacchanal(pity party) after B. Thompson,” on view in “Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration,” with curator Liz Munsell in this short video.
🎧 Listen to artists from the exhibition and curators Liz Munsell and Kristina Parsons discuss other works on view in our digital guides on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app.
#OverflowAfterglow #BloombergConnects
Overflow, Afterglow Catalog
New catalog just dropped ✨
Grab your copy on your next visit to the Jewish Museum Shop or online: https://thejm.net/3SAt0Q9!
The book accompanies the exhibition of the same name on view at the Jewish Museum through September 15, 2024, and discusses new work by seven emerging artists who use supernatural color and uncanny luminescence to unsettle the figure.
Featuring works by:
Austin Martin White
Sara Issakharian
Sasha Gordon
Chella Man • • •
Sula Bermúdez-Silverman
Ilana Savdie
Rosha Yaghmai
#OverflowAfterglow
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