With Rico Gatson, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Tuesday Smillie
December 10, 2020
Lumi Tan, Curator at the Kitchen, moderates a discussion featuring artists Rico Gatson, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Tuesday Smillie in conjunction with We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz, now on view with free admission at the Jewish Museum. This conversation is part of a two-part series with artists who created protest posters for the exhibition inspired by Ben Shahn’s 1942 artwork We Fight for a Free World. The artists speak about how the works they made for the exhibition fit into their respective artistic practices and address the larger social and cultural issues that have occurred since creating the work.
Program is free with RSVP, YouTube link sent with RSVP email confirmation.
Watch now: Protest Posters: One-Minute Interviews with Artists
Explore posters created for We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz through one-minute interviews with artists Nicholas Galanin, Rico Gatson, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Zohar Lahar, Edel Rodriguez, Kay Rosen, and Tabboo.
In case you missed it: watch a discussion about contested monuments; tour the exhibition with artist Jonathan Horowitz
We Fight to Build a Free World: Contested Monuments
The Unite the Right rally of August 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia galvanized a national conversation about the removal of Confederate monuments that has since intensified. In conjunction with We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz, Jewish Museum Chief Curator Darsie Alexander moderates a discussion on the past and future of this topic with architect Mabel O. Wilson and artists Nicholas Galanin and Kris Graves. This program premiered on November 19.
Virtual Tour with Jonathan Horowitz
See We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz through a virtual tour led by artist and guest curator Jonathan Horowitz, and Jewish Museum Chief Curator, Darsie Alexander.
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