Glance at Culture - Curators Darsie Alexander & Sam Sackeroff Discuss the Jewish Museum's Afterlives Exhibition, Historical Justice, Art Restitution and the International Culture of Memory

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Cover Art from the Afterlives Exhibition by Kurt Schwitters, Opened by Customs, 1937 or 1938, Paper, printed paper, oil, and graphite collaged on paper Tate, London, purchased 1958
For more information about the Afterlives exhibition, please visit the Jewish Museum's website.
Show Notes:
00:02:00 inspiration for Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art

00:06:30 design of Afterlives

00:10:15 windows metaphor of seeing through to the history of works and events

00:11:20 August Sander’s portrait photos of persecuted Jews

00:13:00 Jeu de Paume’s “Room of the Martyrs”

00:13:40 1942 photograph of Room of the Martyrs includes images of work by Matisse, Picasso, Léger, and Derain who were defamed as degenerate

00:14:15 exhibition reunites large nude by Cezanne, small surrealist Picasso and post-cubist painting Composition by Fédor Löwenstein

00:14:52 Cezanne and Picasso looted from Alphonse Kann

00:15:00 Composition seizure

00:16:20 restution of Composition in process

00:17:45 works celebrate history of their creation and document their looting

00:18:00 artwork as documentation

00:19:30 Rose Valland

00:20:20 Dachau records in ‘Creativity Under Duress’ gallery

00:20:50 work by artists in exile

00:21:05 work by artists in camps and/or in hiding

00:22:00 Nuremberg trial excerpt

00:25:30 Judaica Room includes pieces from Jewish Museum’s collection affiliated with Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (JCR) and community of Danzig and installation by Maria Eichhorn

00:28:15 Jewish Museum as temporary storage depot for the JCR 1949-1952

00:32:00 JCR aluminum tags on objects

00:32:20 Hannah Arendt’s work at the core of Eichhorn’s commission

00:34:40 Eichhorn’s commission

00:37:50 Arendt’s documents

00:39:30 commissions by Lisa Oppenheim, Hadar Gad, Dor Guez and Eichhorn

00:41:30 international perspective from these artists

00:42:15 Oppenheim’s piece deals with work by Jean-Baptiste

00:46:00 historical justice

00:49:00 international culture of memory

00:50:00 symposium

00:52:00 Pechstein's 1912 Paysage and Löwenstein’s 1939 Composition

00:54:45 We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz; and upcoming exhibition related to Ephrussi family story

00:57:45 1940 charcoal portrait by Jacob Barosin while in French forced labor camp of fellow prisoner

01:00:15 Picasso’s 1929 Group of Characters

01:02:50 Pissarro’s 1872 Portrait of Minette

01:06:00 Portrait of Minette, Group of Characters and Cézanne’s Bather and Rocks

01:06:50 Kurt Schwitters’ Opened by Customs from 1937/38

01:09:35 Afterlives catalog

01:10:30 reactions of visitors

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