{"id":8110,"date":"2010-10-27T04:20:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T11:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=8110"},"modified":"2010-10-27T04:20:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T11:20:29","slug":"beit-hatfusot-gallery-talk-jewish-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=8110","title":{"rendered":"Beit Hatfusot Gallery Talk: Jewish Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7986\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kafkasmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7986\" title=\"kafkasmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kafkasmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kafkasmall.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kafkasmall-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Warhol, Franz Kafka, screen-print on Lenox board, 1980 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Curators Irena Gordon and Geula Goldberg will present a gallery talk at the exhibition \u2013 Andy Warhol and Israeli Artists Present: Jewish Icons. The talk will take place on Friday, November 12, 2010 at Beit Hatfusot \u2013 The Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>Andy won\u2019t be there, but exhibiting artists Hadas Reshef, Ido Shemi and Shay Abady will take part in the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Levine, Midnight East\u2019s art critic, says in her review of the exhibit:<br \/>\n<em>On display in Tel Aviv, and proving to be one of the most fascinating exhibitions in town, are ten portraits of 20th century Jews created by the late Pop artist Andy Warhol shown in dialog with paintings and mixed media works by seven Israeli artists.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This series, donated to the Museum of the Jewish\u00a0People (Beit Hatfutsot) from the estate of Allan S. Bird, USA, dates from 1980. That is, almost 20 years after he produced his famous silkscreen paintings of Campbell Soup tins, followed by photo-based portraits of many \u2018celebrities\u2019 from Mona Lisa to Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=7984\" target=\"_blank\">(Read more\u2026)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The talk will take place at 11:30 at the Lady Sarah Cohen Hall. Admission: 15 NIS. Beit Hatfutsot is located on the campus of Tel Aviv University, Klausner Street, in Ramat Aviv. Enter the campus through Matatia Gate 2. Additional information is available on the Beit Hatfusot web site, or call: 03-7457808<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curators Irena Gordon and Geula Goldberg will present a gallery talk at the exhibition \u2013 Andy Warhol and Israeli Artists Present: Jewish Icons. The talk will take place on Friday, November 12, 2010 at Beit Hatfusot \u2013 The Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv. Andy won\u2019t be there, but exhibiting artists Hadas Reshef, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}