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| Contact: | info@thecjm.org or 415.655.7800 |
About the Program
Josh Kornbluth, the renowned playwright, performer and former host of KQED's "The Josh Kornbluth Show", debuts his new one-man show, Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?. An icon of Bay Area performance, Kornbluth bases his show on the exhibition Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered. The show offers a humorous, penetrating take on the 10 cultural luminaries including Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, and Gertrude Stein painted by Andy Warhol in his famous 1980 series, "Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century". Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? is also an investigation into the nature of contemporary identity, the complex texture of modern Jewish life, and the limits of biographical categories in an era of constant artistic and personal reinvention. Be prepared for Kornbluth's rigorous and irreverent mix of autobiography, music, philosophy and improvisation.
Josh Kornbluth is the author and performer of the celebrated monologues Love & Taxes, Ben Franklin: Unplugged and Citizen Josh, among others. The Washington Post called Ben Franklin: Unplugged a "poignant and penetrating father-son saga that completes a trilogy that deserves to stand with the best of the Jewish father-son sagas in our theatre." In 2001, Kornbluth along with his brother Jacob Kornbluth made the movie Haiku Tunnel about which The Los Angeles Times wrote: "A sly and captivating comedy of imaginative leaps and gently orchestrated pandemonium...Kornbluth can make anything killingly funny." From 2006 to 2008 he hosted the weekly KQED-TV program "The Josh Kornbluth Show," interviewing the likes Annie Leibovitz, Alan Alda, Helen Mirren, and Michael Tilson Thomas.
Supporters
Education programs related to Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered are generously supported by the Jim Joseph Foundation.
