J-Talks presents—Becoming Jewish: Warhol’s Liz and Marilyn (Virtual)

Becoming Jewish: Warhol’s Liz and Marilyn explores Andy Warhol’s fascination with Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, and the tabloid world they embodied. His epochal paintings of the actresses in the 1960s coincided with the end of the Golden Age of Hollywood and an upsurge in consumer culture. Jewish consciousness and openly Jewish celebrity were also on the rise. The fact that Hollywood’s blonde bombshell and violet-eyed siren were both converted Jews was significant: it signaled a growing popular acceptance of Jewish public figures. Warhol’s portraits, both photographically familiar and disturbingly abstracted, explore the complex, manufactured nature of identity. His images cemented their status as the most glamorous women of their era, the twentieth century’s great myth and legend.
Join us for this virtual lecture led by the Jewish Museum of New York.

Fee: $10
To register, click here: https://thej.force.com/s/registration…
A Zoom link will be provided the day before the presentation.

In partnership with the Bender JCC
Questions? Contact [email protected] or 703.537.3068.