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  • Talk
  • Arts

Dialogue and Discourse: Embodied Histories

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Scheuer Auditorium, The Jewish Museum
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Vienna’s New Woman and the women of the Wiener Werkstätte anchor this discussion of art, gender and modern life at the Jewish Museum.

Heddi Hirsch’s Design for a dress, circa 1919. MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. Photo © MAK.

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Scheuer Auditorium, The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128, Manhattan
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The Jewish Museum

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Vienna’s New Woman and the women of the Wiener Werkstätte connect this discussion to Austrian art and cultural history. Historians Katya Motyl and Juliet Bellow join curator Kristina Parsons to examine how women challenged gender conventions in turn-of-the-century European cities.

The conversation accompanies Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte, on view through November 15. Doors open at 6 p.m.; the talk begins at 6:30 p.m. and runs until 8 p.m.

Tickets include museum admission: $14 general, or $10 for students, seniors and Jewish Museum members.

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Vienna’s New Woman and the women of the Wiener Werkstätte anchor this discussion of art, gender and modern life at the Jewish Museum.