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MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL

The Museum Mile Festival kicks off at El Museo del Barrio, which will host live music and dance as well as chalk drawing for kids and adults

Multiple locations on Fifth Ave. between 82nd & 105th Sts.
Tuesday, June 8, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Admission: free
www.museummilefestival.org

Once again nine of the city’s finest art institutions will open their doors for free for the thirty-second annual Museum Mile Festival, from 6:00 to 9:00 on Tuesday night, June 8. The participating museums (with one of their current shows listed here) include El Museo del Barrio (“Retro/Active: The Works of Rafael Ferrer”), the Museum of the City of New York (“Charles Addams’s New York”), the Jewish Museum (“South African Photographs: David Goldblatt”), the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (“National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?”) the National Academy (“Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art”), the Guggenheim (“Haunted: Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance”), the Neue Galerie (“Otto Dix”), the Goethe-Institut (the institute has moved downtown but will be at the festival nonetheless), and the Met (“Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”). Fifth Ave. will also be closed to vehicular traffic and instead will be filled with art activities (chalk drawing, live model drawing), street performances (clowns, juggles, magicians), and live music and dance featuring P-STAR: the ABAKUÁ Afro-Latin Dance Company, Paul Labarbera and Rockbeat, Quarteto Rodriguez Cuban Jewish Allstars, and the Hayes Greenfield Jazz Duo. The Museum Mile Festival is a great way to check out some very cool institutions, especially those you might not be quite as familiar with.

EVENING LECTURES AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM

David Goldblatt, detail, “The farmer’s son with his nursemaid, on the farm in Heimweeberg, near Nietverdiend in the Marico Bushveld. Transvaal (North-West Province),” silver gelatin print, 1964


IN CONVERSATION: DAVID GOLDBLATT AND JOSEPH LELYVELD
GIDEON SHIMONI: THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave. at 92nd St.
May 4 & 13, $15 each, 6:30
212-423-3337
www.thejewishmuseum.org

For decades, South African native David Goldblatt has been documenting the people of his home county; more than 150 of his black-and-white images are currently on view at the Jewish Museum in the exhibition “South African Photographs: David Goldblatt,” which runs through September 19. In conjunction with the show, Goldblatt will be participating in a special program on May 4, in conversation with New York Times executive editor and South Africa correspondent Joseph Lelyveld. The South African theme continues on May 13 when author Gideon Shimoni presents the lecture “The Jewish Experience in Apartheid South Africa.” And on May 17, Richard Turnbull’s Daytime Lecture Series will look at “David Goldblatt and the South African Condition,” part of the series “Conscience and the Camera: The Rise of Social Documentary Photography.” (Also through September 19, the museum is screening four films by William Kentridge in “South Africa Projections.”)

NEW YORK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

EYES WIDE OPEN examines forbidden passion at Jewish Film Festival

EYES WIDE OPEN examines forbidden passion at Jewish Film Festival

Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th St. between Broadway & Amsterdam Ave.
January 13-28, $11
212-721-6500
www.filmlinc.com

The nineteenth annual Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center consists of thirty-two films, nearly every one a New York or U.S. premiere, examining topics both familiar and new, including photojournalism, Israeli cinema, WWII, the Middle East, religious tradition, homosexuality, anti-Semitism, and activism, ranging from Michaël Prazan’s three-hour EINSATGRUPPEN: THE DEATH BRIGADES to Adam Elliot’s claymation MARY AND MAX and restorations of Henry Lynn’s BAR MITZVAH (1935) and Falk Harnack’s THE AXE OF WANDSBEK (1951). This year’s crop once again comes from all over the Jewish diaspora, with feature-length narratives, shorts, and documentaries from Australia, Germany, France, Poland, Belgium, Romania, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, the UK, Israel, and the United States. Ludi Boeken’s SAVIORS IN THE NIGHT, about German farmers protecting a Jewish family during World War II, is the opening-night selection, while Marleen Gorris’s WITHIN THE WHIRLWIND, about the struggles of poet and teacher Evgenia Ginzburg (Emily Watson), is the closing-night choice. Many of the films will feature introductions or postscreening discussions with directors, producers, and subjects. In addition to the Walter Reade Theater, several special screenings will take place at the JCC in Manhattan and the Jewish Museum.