This week,
Brian and Patricia (and her stealth interns) talk shop and the
sublime with Renny Pritikin, Chief Curator of the Contemporary
Jewish Museum, in San Francisco. Currently on view at the CJM
is Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and
Beauty, which tackles fear and awe, time and frailty, and
the limits of seeing in our age of technological innovation. The
always frank and open Pritikin shares his thoughts on curating for
an ethnic-specific cultural institution, curating theology into art
exhibitions, East vs West Coast Jewish culture, and Amy
Winehouse.
Renny has been a
pivotal figure in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community for
over three decades. He served as Co-Director of New Langton Arts in
San Francisco from 1979 to 1992, Chief Curator at the Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts from 1992 to 2004, and Director of the Nelson
Gallery and Fine Arts Collection at the University of California,
Davis from 2004 until 2012.
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