Connecting Art, People, and Ideas.
Introducing the latest installation at the CJM—a pig petting zoo right in front of the museum.
“Please Touch the Treyf: Beyond Fear in Jewish-Bacon Relations” encourages visitors to look at, touch, but not eat these adorably unkosher creatures as a way to combat negative perceptions of swinekind. Oh, and April Fools :)
Luke Bartels is a furniture artisan who works primarily with locally salvaged and sustainably harvested hardwoods, so the challenge to create an art piece out of reclaimed wood wasn’t much of a stretch.
From Luke on this artwork: “Part of the concept of the project is pegging of the price of the bricks to the price of gold…which engages so many of the issues that I’m trying to bring into the piece; market value, commodity fetishism…the charlatanry involved in the trading markets and the green/eco revolution.”
This piece is featured in the exhibition Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought, closing Sept 9.
Image Credits: Luke Bartels, The Wood Standard. California Bay Laurel.
Gradients on display #bluesteel (Taken with Instagram at Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco)
Looking angular today. (Taken with Instagram at Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco)
Wall colors for the upcoming exhibition “The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats” opening Nov 15! (Taken with Instagram at Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco)
Window & Light
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. July, 2012.
They grow up so fast…Claire and Jeanne in our curatorial department get their first personalized tape measures, a museum worker staple.
Half Jewish. Half Italian. Totally stuffed.
Dave Cirilli, Smith Magazine’s Six-Word Jewish Memoirs.
Come see brand-new Bay Area Jewish memoirs performed on 7/12/12.
Prostate hurts from all the grief.
Gary Shteyngart, Smith Magazine’s Six-Word Jewish Memoirs.
Come see brand-new Bay Area Jewish memoirs performed on 7/12/12.
Gale Antokal, Rebirth
Chalk, flour, and wood ash on paper, framed; box with burnt remains of tree roots.
32 x 24 in.
Courtesy of Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco
On view in the exhibition Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought.
I accidentally came to the Jewish museum (I was sucked in by the amazing building) but I’ve learned some things about Jews!
