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The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028 / (212) 860-1888
under the auspices of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

PRESS RELEASE • PRESS RELEASE • PRESS RELEASE

Press Contacts: Anne Scher, Director of Public Relations, or Ricki Granetz, Public Relations Assistant (212) 860-1860

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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PRESS VIEWING
Tuesday, July 5
10 - 11:30 P.M.
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TIME AND MEMORY: VIDEO ART AND IDENTITY
OPENS AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM ON SUNDAY, JULY 3

Time and Memory: Video Art and Identity is the first exhibition to place video art within the context of Jewish themes and represents the first time the Jewish Museum has focused on this medium of artistic expression. The exhibition, on view from July 3 through September 1, 1988, will include the American premiere of About Cages by Juan Downey and the first New York showing of Beryl Korot's Dachau since 1980.

Time and Memory is comprised of three sculptural installations and six single-channel works that explore difficult and sometimes confrontational issues in unique and challenging formats. The themes addressed include the influences of personal and cultural history on identity, the state of Israel, the Holocaust, issues of power and powerlessness, assimilation and ritual. The eleven artists represnted are among the leading practitioners of this electronic art form and utilize diverse aesthetics and technologies in their work. These range from Bart Friedman's 1977 black and white piece, Harold's Bar Mitzvah, to the

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