Susan L. Braunstein.

New York City, USA, 2015. 141 pp., illustrations: 14 col., 150 b&w, 24.6 × 17.2 cm. English

9780300215731

Jewish Museum New York (5 March–4 August 2013)

A unique installation by artist Barbara Bloom, in which 276 works from the Museum’s collections were arranged in unconventional contexts and juxtapositions, within rooms “furnished” by Judaica. Inspired in part by Talmudic discourse, in which discussions and commentaries take place across time and space, Bloom filled the paneled rooms of the former Warburg Mansion with imagined historical guests engaging in discourse and argument over wide-ranging topics. Museum pieces, found texts, Bloom’s writings, and furniture-shaped display cases provided the setting and inspiration for these tableaux, which offered visitors a new way to view the museum and its holdings. Exhibits included significant numbers of Torah pointers, spice containers, amulets and kiddush cups. No itemized listing. 276 items.

BLOOM, BARBARA
CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
JEWISH ART, CONTEMPORARY/MODERN
TORAH ORNAMENTS

Amulets
Besamim
Book bindings
Bridal garments
Circumcision implements/objects
Clocks/Watches
Dreyfus, Alfred
Freud, Sigmund
Games
Hamsas
Havdalah cups
Head coverings, women’s
Head coverings, men’s
Incantation bowls
Kaufmann, Isidor
Ketubbot
Kiddush cups
Letter openers
Paintings
Pesach cups
Playing cards
Scrolls of Esther, cases
Seals/Stamps, personal
Signet rings
Tobacco, objects for
Tzedakah boxes/containers
Yad

exhibition leaflet, 8 pp., cover illustration only, 21 × 15.2 cm.