In the community of of the africa deaspri and center for the arts across the street. It was a power station originally converted by daniel lee biscan into a beautiful building with a magical bluecube. And its been on the site for 12 years and the museum is really about interpreting the jewish experience. Through exhibition and programming so constantly we are looking at what it means and how to discuss that, you know. How can people connect to a jaou jewish experience through contestimony prairie art. Its an interesting way what are the ways with the Jewish Community sees the arts. Arts represent the Jewish Community and the world view as an example. Lovely. And he i think what you say daniel is a famous architect. Starki tect. And out of europe. Yes originally from europe. The children of survivors. And interesting. And what are some of the ways in which the Museum Actually functions . So, we are essentially an jewish Art Institution with a con pardon me. Contemporary Art Institution with a contemporary jewish point of vow. We look at art and cultural art, and pop art a little bit. This is you know, for instance right now, we have variety of exhibitions that are both looking at contemporary art and pop culture and looking at jew withish history in the bay area. Contemporary is an interesting word. Absolutely. So contemporary. Jewish museum is in sequence of the words of themselves. So, so, i think that one of the interesting things about this noths owrmaneneum is it collection. Absolutely. Yes. It was decided when the museum was being conceived that it would be a noncollecting institution and so that it never was really held to what jaouish used to look like. So we wouldnt have a collection of not theres anything wrong wrong with it but collections of menorahs and things like that. We are actually very fortunate because of the museum across the bay another Jewish Museum has the collection and we collaborate to occasionally when we want to display it with them to bring it into the museum. Just another example of what contemporary might especially in re where wea seum Permanent Collections in the broader bay area. Yes. So, can you talk a little bit about the kinds of programming that happens at the museum and kinds of thadvantage sure. We are a very Family Friendly museum. We value families as much as we value contemporary art if not more so. And we have great programming. We have a something called the art bash that happens an a quarterly basis a. Museum wide program that is for families and they come in for free and theres art activity and ways to interact with the exhibitions. And we have programs that are taught and lextures that expand the ideas and exhibitions. We have film series and all sorts of things. So, interesting. So letsic that take a break and come back in a moment. You are on mosaic. Good morning many we come back to mosaic i am eric weiss and we are in the middle of a wonderful conversation ou thecontem fare contemporary Jewish Museum and here with gravity. Welcome back in thank you. So lets talk about whats new at the contemporary Jewish Museum. Well, we opened a few weeks ago on february 13th. And an exhibition we are incredibly excited about its levi straws and looks at the life of levi straws the creator of the blue jean the life of an immigrant jew come to the america and coming to the west coast starting his company and looking at the influence and the kind of like how it play out in the early california and San Francisco history. And it expands into the global influence of levis jeans. So its jaou jewish history, fashion history contemporary fashion history and San Francisco history. I think a lot of people doesnt know he stared here in the bay area. And based in San Francisco as what became its world headquarters. Absolutely. The first levi straws factory watt 415 na w sothinthat intereg in the world of social media. Its called a sizzle reel. Sizzle in i guess sizzling. And reel as in reel. So he lets look at this sizzle reel and its on the exhibit. Here we go. We live in every day. We love them until they are thread there. A canvass for selfexpression with a story to tell. How do the blue jean become a cultural icon . It started with a jewish immigrant in a city of possibility from gold miners to cow girls, rockers to rebels, hipies to hiphop, an exhibition celebrating levi straws the birth of the blue jean and San Francisco. The city where it all began. What great sizzle reel. So, what will somebody see at the exhibit . Well, they will see as they walk into the exhibition after they learned history, they will see an amazing panoramic that looks at its an image of San Francisco as levi straws saw it when he got here in the 1850s. You used amy. Moye bridge was in early photographer who was doing a lot of experimentation with photography and think a studio was around. Okay. And then as you waw in you saw some example of some very early blue jeans from the 1800s. We have we are lucky to have a few examples of ones that were found in like hidden in mine shops and uneringed and they are beautifully preserved and look like something you go to the store and spend 300 on now. But they are very anthey look its interesting because they really look exactly like the ones you are, you know, if you were wearing levis jeans with the patch and when he first created these. So its interestingism i dont know if you know the question he or we as a public know, but, they were originally designed to be a workers pant. Absolutely. And then, over time became what we piet think of as a fashion statement. Absolutely. Absolutely. And look how the levi straus is good at creating the transformation and early 20th century were able to contribute to the creating of this iconic American West style of the cowboy and if you look at old movies from the 1930s, john wayne and stagecoach is wearing a pear of levis jeans with the cuffs pulled up. In the exhibition. Herea ample and it then moves into contemporary fashions you see examples of things madonna wore and we have steve jobs jeans and we have lawyer yin hills jeans and can i show my favorite. Please. One of my favorite pieces is not jeans. Its a leather jack that was worn by Albert Einstein so this is the first time it has been on public display. We got it from the levi strausarchiving and they supplied many exhibitions and this was a very special get for us. Einsteins jacket was something he bought off the rack in a store . I think so. And he is photographed on time life wearing it. How did it go e einstein closet warld robe to the archives. I have part panic was told i going up for auction in london and went to london and bid on it and was able to acquire it so, does this exhibit travel . I know that the contemporary Jewish Museum does not house its own Permanent Collection but how did this collection come about ford contemporary Jewish Museum. I think for so many people it was an inevitable exhibition. Its everything that we are all about. Its about the history San Francisco, jaouish San Francisco, the founders of jewish San Francisco. So, it like it was something i think that in some form or another had been like thought about since the museum started. So it finally did come and thls we established a very strong relationship with levi strauss anthey have been generous and supportive in make the exhibition happen. Its poted together for put togeth back in a moment and continue this conversation with gravity goldberg. Good morning. Welcome back. We are in the middle of a wonderful conversation about the contemporary Jewish Museum based in San Francisco with gravity goldberg. Welcome back gravity. Thank you. So, lets continue our conversation and talk more about the low vie exhibit. U. Well, onofhe things that we do at the contemporary Jewish Museum where we have an exhibition is we talk about it through programming. Family programming and adult Public Programs and access programs. We have quite a lot, would recommend your viewers to check our website, which is the cjm. Org to see the full extent of the programming. But i would love to share a few examples. Please. So, for levi strauss which is a rich exhibit with so many stories. Theres a lot to unpack through Public Programs. One of the series is we have something called the gallery chats. And these are short, 20 minute talks, during lunchtime on friday afternoons in the gallery about the stories and idea in the exhibition. So we have a many of those coming up. We have more adding all of thetime. And, these are free for any of the members. So, if the source have numbers they can come to these as often as they want and part of the benefits of membership. So some of the ones that we have coming up, we have a talk on the chinese exclusion act san fraisco. We th totheraid cry sss sis. We have a talk on denim for people like super excited about salvage and what is that and stitches and all the details that go into denim making. We have a talk about that. And many, many more. Another series that we are doing is a film series. So thinking about the myth of the American West, we are showing series of classic westerns. So we are showing high noon, which you may know is actually considered an algory of what happened to the ride writers in hollywood but is an incredible movie. It has the man to shot liberty balance with john wayne. And misfits, of course. Marilyn monroe and her iconic lea vies jeans. And we e west as a place where we are horseback riding and getting the motorcycles to ride to the sunset. We are doing several talks, lectures. We have one with the historian lynn downey who wrote a biography of levi strauss and books about San Franciscos jaouish community Jewish Community. And conversation with lori star and the director of the jewer museum who had created one of the exhibition also and a Company Exhibition in the mow seem. Theres so many. But, the last one i will talk about is a musical program. Because at the contemporary Jewish Museum, one of the things we love to do is to figure out how to connect our exhibitions with living artiint cowboy. Its a celebration of comedy, and fick shough and music with a lot of local ta thats in summerme. Th going to be very exciting. So interesting. So really its a beautiful, retch array of choices for the entire community to be enriched and row mind me that in line with the name contemporary Jewish Museum. It is a venue for arts education, arts experience that are formal and informal. And certainly, being the folks that show up to something that you are interested in as well and being a part of a community its wonderful. To educate, entertain and inspire. Beautiful. Wonderful. And if people have more questions they go to the website. Www. Thecjm. Org. Perfect. And so lets continue a little and talk about what else the museum is we open up a new exhibition at that is called predicting the past. Zohar studios the lost years. And its an immersive photography installation that takes you into the story of a photographer and his mid19th century stowedo from the Lower East Side. It is filled with beautiful photographs of an eclementic array of people. And i think we have i think we have some of those to share. Wonderful. We will take a break and come back in just a moment on mosaic. Welcome back to mosaic. We are in the middle of a wonderful conversation about the cop temporary jewish mow seem with gravity goldberg welcome. Thank you. Lets tick continue the conversation about the ebb hibt. Its called very long title predicting the past zohar studios the lost years an immersive photography installation by the Los Angeles Based artist Steven Berkman. The exhibition looks at the exhibition was looking at the collection of the the photographer in the 19th century and his Lower East Side studio. And we see a collection of beautiful turn of the century early turn of the century photographs, and it includes some of the cabinet of cure osities of objects. So when you walk into the gallery, there are of walking through time so you with balk into the past and predicting the past. And think the photographs i think we have some. We have a few. Lets see what are we looking at here. That is photograph called the wandering jewish. Yes. And so its one of the wonderful things about the photographs is they are all taken with the technique called wet coloadian plate where you take a plate of glass, and you coat both sides of it with a substance thats very scientific. So its silver nitrate and you put it in the camera and take a picture while the plate is still wet. So its complicated process that most people dont use anymore. And so the pictures are pictures of the past. Interesting. And so this is another one . Yes. This is. A what is this. I dont have a title. I am sorry. Interesting. And then this one. Yes. Another photograph from the exhibit. So these photographs from the studio that berkman yes. So they are a collection of photographs from zohar studios that berkman was able to recreate in his studio. Oh. Okay. So these are they are extraordinary. So, so, these are berkmans recreation of zohars photographs. So in some way theres a mixture of a contemporary reproduction of something thats older. I wouldnt say that i wouldnt say that. Its a bit of a suspension of belief as you walk into this because its an artists installation so the whole thing is in its way a concept of a historical experience that you would go into as said like you go into this immersive experience in the objects that thephotographic props and photographs of the technique used. Oh. At that time. And. So its visit to the past. Its a visit to the past. Its beautifully said. Interesting. Okay. And so a specifically a visit to the past in this photographers world. Absolutely. That berkman assembled and put together. Absolutely. And you walk through berkmans rendition of zohars creation of his art. Of capturing the world of the past. So, it is sort i think its something you really have to walk in and experience yourself. Its very much in the tradition of the artist created museums. Theres a museum of Jurassic Technology in los angeles that resonates with that very closely. If you get a better grasp of it, the viewers might want to come to a program thats happening Steven Berkman will be in conversation with the writer lawrence fleshler and its on sunday april 26th. Lawrence fleshler had written about the museum of Jurassic Technology in los angeles. What an interesting concept. People are used to going to a museum see a painting. And whether its an old painter or contemporary and they look at a painting but what you you are talking about is a different form of art that really you walk into the creation of art and seeing what the art was, and its a layering between. Absolutely. Yeah. I think you said that very well. So interesting. And is berkman him sea of photographer . He is, yes. Yes, hes working photographer in los angeles, and he works for hollywood. He is the, i think, world expert in what the. He reconstructed this process but they are his photographs in the end of zohars work interesting yes. So thats the classic art question then somebody comes and thanks so much for being with us we want to encourage you to go to the contemporary jaouish museum and have a immersive experience. Take your friends and thanks for being with us. This burgers delicious lets make it more delicious menutaur put an extra patty on that bam woah uhuhhh my 4. 99 triple bonus jack combo stack it up for an extra buck. Check out my triple bonus jack check it out with an extra patty yeah check ouok lets ride us jack oh hey man, uhh. [car beeps] my 4. 99 triple bonus jack combo stack it up for an extra buck. Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news from Governor Newsom warns everyone to follow emergency guide lines to show the spread of the coronavirus. He announces tens of millions dollars in extra health care funding. 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