Photo: Courtesy of The Jersey Heritage Trust
This event was featured in the National Queer Arts Festival 2005
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Acting Out: Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore
The Judah L. Magnes Museum
April 4, 2005 - July 2005
The Judah L. Magnes Museum
Location:
2911 Russell Street
Berkeley, CA 94705
Hours: Sun-Wed 11-4, Th 11-8
Closed some Jewish and federal holidays
Admission: Suggested donation
$4.00 Adults
$3.00 Seniors and students
Free Museum members and children under 12
Phone: (510) 549-6950
Fax: (510) 849-3673
Website: http://www.magnes.org
Photo: Courtesy of The Jersey Heritage Trust
Art historian Tirza True Latimer, curator of the exhibition Acting Out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, on view at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley through June, will present a virtual walk-through of the exhibition. She will introduce a range of work produced in 1920’s Paris by these two life partners and artists in collaboration. A screening of the 2004 documentary film Playing a Part: A Story of Claude Cahun, directed by the English filmmaker Lizzie Thynne, follows. Thynne’s 40 minute documentary film honors the life and work of a politically active feminist who, with her partner, participated in experimental theater initiatives, contributed to artistic, literary, and political manifestations of the Paris surrealist movement, and conducted a creative campaign of resistance during the German occupation (for which she was imprisoned).
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| Claude Cahun Photo: Courtesy of The Jersey Heritage Trust |
Marcel Moore Photo: Courtesy of The Jersey Heritage Trust |
The Judah L. Magnes Museum
The Judah L. Magnes Museum, founded in 1962, is the third largest Jewish museum in North America. Throughout its 40-year history, the museum has searched the world for objects that illustrate the triumphs and struggles of the Jewish people. The permanent collections hold over 12,000 objects of Jewish ceremonial, folk and fine art including paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings by contemporary and traditional artists.