Tent: Museums, Jun 22-28

Tent: Museums will offer a space for brainstorming and re-imagining the relevance of Jewish museums to contemporary culture. The seminar will be structured around conversations with curators, artists, and other creative professionals who make, acquire, and display artworks and artifacts in dynamic ways. Through behind-the-scenes visits to various cultural places in New York City – from museums and archives to historical neighborhoods and artist studios – we will think about how Jewish museum practice can become a versatile lens for looking at the visual and material past, present, and future. We will look at the specific roles of history, religion, and identity in these various contexts; in addition, we will consider the broader idea of the Jewish museum as a conceptual space that is relevant to the production and framing of tomorrow’s culture.