Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Fall/Winter 2024-25
Walking Tour: The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt at the Jewish Museum
View seventeenth century paintings, prints, and drawings by Dutch masters in The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt, running March 7, 2025 through August 10, 2025. Esther's story from the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament was a popular artistic theme and key source of inspiration for both Jewish and Christian communities in Holland. Immigrant Jewish communities in Amsterdam celebrated Purim, a holiday that commemorates how Esther foiled a plot to kill all the Jews in the First Persian Empire, with finely produced scrolls and theater productions. For the Dutch, Queen Esther’s heroism represented an emerging national identity. HELEN LEE (see bio for “Walking Tour: Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. at the Met”).
Thursday, March 20 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Jewish Museum • Course 13062 • $85
Walking Tour: Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston at the Jewish Museum Draw Them In, Paint Them Out , running November 8, 2024 through March 30, 2025, examines the profound influence of Jewish painter Philip Guston (1913-1980) on Black contemporary painter, cartoonist, and illustrator Trenton Doyle Hancock (b. 1974). Both are known for their pursuit of social justice through comedic artistic interpretations of the legacy of white supremacy in the United States. At the center of the exhibit are Guston's satiric paintings of buffoonish Klu Klux Klansmen from the late 1960s and early 1970s, selected by Hancock as a source of inspiration. Hancock's mixed media psychedelic canvases similarly explore themes of the nature of evil, self-representation, otherness, and art activism with comparable dark humor. The exhibit includes Hancock’s surreal comic strip-like series, Epidemic!
Presents: Step and Screw! , in which Hancock’s avatar, a Black superhero named Torpedoboy, meets and engages with Guston’s Klan-hooded alter-ego in an interweaving of Guston’s biography with Hancock’s own. Enjoy a docent-led tour of this extraordinary exhibit that illustrates how white supremacism, racism, and
antisemitism have impacted the lives of Black and Jewish Americans for generations. Wednesday, February 5 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Jewish Museum • Course 13061 • $85
Walking Tour: The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection at the Drawing Center
The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection , running October 10, 2024 through January 19, 2025 at the Drawing Center offers a glimpse into the artistic interests of contemporary artist and collector Brian Donnelly, known professionally as KAWS. Spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the exhibition encompasses more than 350 drawings, broadly defined to include comics, graffiti sketches, and commercial illustrations. Featuring works by luminaries such as Willem de Kooning, R. Crumb, and Martín Ramírez, alongside graffiti legends DONDI and FUTURA 2000, the show celebrates underrepresented and unconventional artists that have inspired KAWS and fueled his creativity. RONNIT VASSERMAN (see bio for “Walking Tour: Galleries of Chelsea”). Thursday, January 16 • 12:00pm-1:00pm • Drawing Center • Course 13072 • $50
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