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Ben Shahn
If Not Now, When? April 9 – August 27, 2017 Leadership
Lithuanian-born American artist Ben Shahn (1898–1969) was a committed activist and humanist. Using social realism to protest political attitudes of the time, his work reveals a passionate search for social justice and an engagement with questions about his spiritual and ethnic identity. He explored polemic themes of modern urban life, organized labor, immigration, and injustice.
Arts & Culture
Ben Shahn: If Not Now, When? includes one of the last projects on which Shahn worked before his death, a series of 24 lithographs illustrating a passage from the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge from 1910. All works in this exhibit are from the Spertus collection.
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Ben Shahn
Contexts for Today Sunday, April 23 from 4 to 6 pm Resources
$18 | $10 for Spertus members | $8 for students and Spertus alumni Buy tickets online at spertus.edu or call 312.322.1773. Wine and beer available for purchase. Join Dr. Susan Chevlowe, organizer of The Jewish Museum, New York’s 1998 exhibit, Ben Shahn, Common Man, Mythic Vision, as she leads a discussion about the transformative and relevant power of Ben Shahn’s art.
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Dr. Susan Chevlowe is Chief Curator and Director of the Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at New York’s Hebrew Home at Riverdale. She has worked as a curator at The Jewish Museum, New York, and taught in the Jewish Art and Visual Culture program at New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary.
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