
The Jewish Museum Happy Thanksgiving, Facebook Fans! This Thanksgiving we invite you not only to feast, but to drink and be merry! Check out our online gallery of wine and beer in ancient times: http://bit.ly/7up8PB
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Since antiquity, wine and beer have been valued for their power to help us transcend everyday existence, becoming major components in religious ceremonies and secular celebrations. Wine and beer are among ...

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Announcing the Man Ray Mondays Flickr Photo Contest! Explore your own identity with a self-portrait like Man Ray, enter to win 2 free admission passes to The Jewish Museum. Winners will be announced weekly: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1270014@N20 /pool/

The Jewish Museum "Uncovering Man Ray" - Read the article in The New York Observer http://bit.ly/7cusVB
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A curious obscurity clings to Man Ray, the transatlantic dandy who died in 1976 at the age of 87. Nobody could call him overlooked, exactly. The artist is enshrined in art history as the first American to gain membership to deluxe avant-garde circles of Surrealism and Dada. ...

The Jewish Museum Man Ray: From Dupont Circle to Fifth Avenue. See Man Ray this fall at The Jewish Museum in New York or The Phillips Collection in Washington DC, get $2 off admission and reciprocal membership: http://bit.ly/5PfL0N
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Sad news: Painter Mayer Kirshenblatt passed away early Friday morning in Toronto. He was 93. View his "painted memories" from this year's exhibition They Called Me Mayer July: http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitio ns/MayerJuly
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"... a reluctant painter and accidental memoirist whose words and images form an extraordinary exhibition...." The New York TimesMayer Kirshenblatt has made it his mission to remember the world of his ...

The Jewish Museum Proof it happened! Cindy Sherman & David Bryne after Sherman received The Jewish Museum's Man Ray Award on Tuesday, November 17th.

The Jewish Museum New blog post - Curatorial Assistant Lauren Dickens writes about her work on the Alias Man Ray Exhibition. Join Lauren on a behind-the-scenes tour of the exhibition Monday, November 23rd at 12:15 pm. http://bit.ly/18bPSx
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Since the spring of 2007, I’ve been working with curator Mason Klein on the much anticipated exhibition Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. At last, over two years later, the show is now on view at The Jewish Museum.

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"Mercurial Jester, Revealing and Concealing."
Read the full NYTimes review of Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention by Karen Rosenberg http://bit.ly/OPByr
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A traditional retrospective on Man Ray, with an irresistible biographical hook, at the Jewish Museum.

The Jewish Museum We just went live with 5 online galleries, plus audio feature, for the web element of Alias Man Ray. Start here: http://tinyurl.com/ybgoq9l
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Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, Man Ray rejected his birth name and his family. Moving as an expatriate to Paris in 1921, he secured not just a comfortable distance from his roots but also a new status as the only American within the Parisian avant-garde. ...

The Jewish Museum Happy Birthday Ben Katchor. About his work: http://tinyurl.com/ybgg5xr See him Dec 5 @ Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival.
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Ben Katchor’s serial picture-stories inspire nostalgia for a bygone era, but time and place are rarely specified. Instead Katchor’s urban milieu melds past and present. Many of his quirky characters – ...

The Jewish Museum Reminder: We're open late Thurs 'til 8:00pm. On View: Man Ray & Reinventing Ritual. Summary: 95 years of great art. http://tinyurl.com/yhx2gmz
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Alias Man Ray presents a fresh look at the diversity of Man Ray's body of work, examining it in the context of his lifelong cover-up of his Russian-Jewish immigrant past and his suppression of his background. ...

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Man Ray died Nov 18, 1976. His epitaph reads: unconcerned, but not indifferent.
Photo: http://tinyurl.com/yl842w8 The Exhibition: http://tinyurl.com/ye8gjsm
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The quintessential modernist, Man Ray recast the concept of artistic identity, working as a painter, photographer, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, poet, and essayist. He perpetually tinkered with material ...

The Jewish Museum From AiANews via NYTimes: American painter Irving Kriesberg died Nov 10 at age 90. Obituray: http://tr.im/FdSj From our collection: http://tinyurl.com/ybmf5j3
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Inspired by the work of Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Irving Kriesberg based his paintings on both personal history and cultural heritage. In Jacob's Struggle, the ...

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