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Pomegranate: A Video By Ori Gersht - New Media Center Installation at the Jewish Museum
NEW MEDIA CENTER INSTALLATIONS
POMEGRANATE: A VIDEO BY ORI GERSHT
March 9 through June 22, 2008
Referencing a still life by 16th century Spanish artist Juan Sánchez Cotán, Ori Gersht’s eerie and painterly video features a ripe pomegranate dangling from a string, and framed with other freshly harvested produce in a window. In slow motion a bullet slices through the fruit-a food symbolic of the Bible, Jewish law, and Near Eastern culture-spraying blood-red seeds and flesh in the air.
SERVICES FOR VISITORS WHO ARE BLIND OR PARTIALLY SIGHTED
The Jewish Museum offers open tours of its exhibitions for visitors who are blind or partially sighted. Museum docents are trained to lead Verbal Imaging tours. All tours are free with museum admission A verbal imaging tour is being offered on Thursday, January 16 at 3:15 pm for the exhibition, Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country. The Museum will offer a special evening reception on Thursday, February 7 at 5:30 pm for From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of William Steig. This program will include an exhibition tour, followed by a wine reception with museum staff. All evening receptions are free and require pre-registration by calling the number below. The Museum also offers verbal imaging and touch tours by appointment for groups. Large print labels are available for all special exhibitions. To arrange for a tour, the public may contact the Scheduling and Access Coordinator at 212.423.3225.
SERVICES FOR VISITORS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING
The Jewish Museum offers open tours of its exhibitions for visitors who are deaf and hard of hearing. These 45-minute tours are led by a Jewish Museum docent who is accompanied by a certified sign language interpreter for the deaf. All interpreted tours are free with Museum admission. Assistive listening devices for the hard of hearing are available for all tours. The Museum will offer a special evening reception on Thursday, January 10 at 5:30 pm for Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country. This program will include an exhibition tour, followed by a wine reception with museum staff. A “Tea Time” tour is scheduled for Tuesday, March 4 at 2:00 pm of From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of William Steig. All “Tea Time” tours and evening receptions are free and require pre-registration by calling the number below. An infrared assistive listening system for visitors who are hard of hearing is available for programs in the Museum’s S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Auditorium. Sign interpreted tours are also available by appointment. To arrange for a tour, the public may contact the Scheduling and Access Coordinator at 212.423.3225 or TTY 212.660.1515.
GENERAL INFORMATION
INFORMATION
HOTLINE: To reach the Museum’s offices, call: 212.423.3200.
ONLINE
INFORMATION: http://www.thejewishmuseum.org
OTHER Public and Family Programs 212.423.3337
INFORMATION: The Jewish Museum’s Cooper Shop 212.423.3211
Celebrations - The Jewish Museum Design Shop 212.423.3260
MUSEUM AND CAFÉ WEISSMAN HOURS:
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 11:00 am to 5:45 pm
Thursday 11:00 am to 8:00 pm
Friday CLOSED
CLOSED major legal and Jewish holidays
CAFÉ closes at 5:30 pm on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
and at 7:30 pm Thursday. Café Weissman is closed on Friday and Saturday
NOTE: The children’s exhibition, Archaeology Zone: Discovering Treasures
from Playgrounds to Palaces, is open Sunday through Thursday (not on Saturday).
THE COOPER SHOP AND JEWISH MUSEUM DESIGN SHOP HOURS:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 11:00 am to 5:45 pm
Thursday 11:00 am to 8:00 pm
(Design Shop closes at 5:45 pm)
Friday 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
CLOSED Saturday and major legal and Jewish holidays
ADMISSION:
Adults $12.00
Senior Citizens $10.00
Students $ 7.50
Children under 12 FREE
Jewish Museum Members FREE
Saturdays FREE
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