Saturday March 8 – 2:00 p.m. EST<\/strong><\/p>\n Sunday March 9 – 2:00 p.m. EST<\/strong><\/p>\n A Dance for Madalena <\/span><\/i>is a poetic tribute, through movement and performance, to Madalena Santos Reinbolt, a remarkable Black embroiderer and painter renowned for her vivid depictions of urban and rural life in 20th-century Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n Choreographer Ana Pi will engage in a dialogue with Santos Reinbolt\u2019s work, responding to the “wool paintings” on view in the exhibition<\/span> Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets<\/span><\/i><\/a>. Rooted in the road between the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia, Pi will evoke the vibrant landscapes and creative spirit of the coastal and interior regions of Northeastern Brazil, where Santos Reinbolt lived, worked, and traveled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Pi has learned that gestures carry and connect the memories and traditions of Black communities across continents and generations. <\/span>A Dance for Madalena<\/span><\/i> will weave together movement, voice, texture, and color, bringing Santos Reinbolt\u2019s textile vision to life while celebrating Afro-Brazilian experience, knowledge and spirituality.<\/span><\/p>\n Each performance is a 20-min solo dance, integrating a motif and gesture drawn from Santos Reinbolt\u2019s work:<\/span><\/p>\n Friday March 7 \u2013 5:00 p.m.\u00a0 Motif 1: EYES CLOSING<\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday March 8 \u2013 2:00 p.m. Motif 2: FINAL CLEANING<\/strong><\/p>\n Sunday March 9 \u2013 2:00 p.m. Motif 3: INLAND EXPANDING<\/strong><\/p>\n The first motif, \u201cEYES CLOSING\u201d, channels Santos Reinbolt’s spiritual and metaphysical presence. The second, \u201cFINAL CLEANING\u201d, serves a farewell to her life as a domestic worker. The third and final one, \u201cINLAND EXPANDING\u201d, traces the world-building of her needlework.<\/span><\/p>\n This live program is conceived and performed by Ana Pi. Organized by Mathilde Walker-Billaud, AFAM Curator of Programs and Engagement<\/span><\/p>\n Program Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to download the program notes.<\/p>\n About the artist<\/strong><\/p>\n Ana Pi<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>is a choreographer and \u201c<\/span>imagery\u201d<\/span><\/i> artist, born, raised, and nourished in Brazil, working from France and navigating the world through the regenerative layers of the African Diaspora and its radical imagination. The artist amplifies a research on ancestral dances and their actual peripheral forms; she works as an \u201c<\/span>extemporary\u201d<\/span><\/i> dancer, pedagogue, space maker, and writer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ana Pi studies, materially, gestures and movements that have been transmitted by traditions and transmuted through different landscapes, softwares, living bodies and archives, while carefully learning their philosophy and futurity. Interwoven by the act of traveling, her transdisciplinary works are precisely situated between notions of transit, displacement, belonging, superposition, memory, colors, and ordinary gestures.<\/span><\/p>\n Her choreographic pieces, sculptural installations, films, pedagogical acts, and research have been programmed in institutional spaces such as the 35th S\u00e3o Paulo Biennial \u2014 Choreographies of the Impossible, Cisneros Institute with MoMA, Performa Biennial, AMANT Brooklyn, The Wake \u2014 15th Dakar Biennale, Centre Pompidou Paris and Metz, Museo Reina Sofia, Dancing Museums, Assembl\u00e9e des Mutants, Hist\u00f3rias Afro-Atl\u00e2nticas Exhibition, International Film Festival Rotterdam, RAW Material Company, A-CDCN France, P.A.R.T.S, Festival d’Automne, Impulstanz, Alkantara, Holland Festival, VIDEOBRASIL, Fondation Cartier, Puerto de Ideas, INHOTIM, MASP, The Place London, BARD College, to mention just a few.<\/span><\/p>\n Since 2010, she has cultivated and shared the practice <\/span>STEADY BODY; peripheral dances \u2014 sacred gestures<\/span><\/i>. Since 2020, NA MATA LAB has been producing her various projects and collaborations. Ana Pi is currently working on <\/span>ATOMIC JOY<\/span><\/i>, a choreographic piece for 8 dancers, premiering both at Rencontres chor\u00e9graphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis and Pinacoteca de S\u00e3o Paulo in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n Images\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Left: Ana Pi, <\/span>NoirBLUE<\/i><\/strong>, 2017, solo performance. Photo: Daniel Nicolaevsky for Na Mata Lab<\/span><\/p>\n Right:<\/span> Madalena Santos Reinbolt, <\/span>Untitled, <\/strong>1965\u20131976, acrylic wool on burlap with pieces of fabric, 36 1\/4 x 38 5\/8 in. Collection Edmar Pinto Costa, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/span><\/p>\n Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n Lead support is provided by the Ford Foundation. Major support is provided by The Coby Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Madalena Santos Reinbolt Advisory Committee: LA Dillon, Vilma Eid, Ady Fong, Maria Fernanda Mazzuco, Luciana Solano. Additional support is provided by the Consulate-General of Brazil in New York \/ Instituto Guimar\u00e3es Rosa, Citi, the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the David Davies and Jack Weeden Fund for Exhibitions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Special thanks to Jessica Mitrani for her generous support of the performance.<\/span><\/p>\n Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n Free, and open to all. Advance registration is appreciated. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/span><\/p>\n Please note: Attendance is on a first-come, first-served basis (even for those who have registered) and will be limited to the legal capacity of our venue.<\/span><\/p>\n Program takes place in the Museum\u2019s Atrium on the first floor. All bags are subject to security bag check upon arrival to the Museum. Please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes before the scheduled start time. All backpacks must be left in coat check.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For specific accommodation questions or needs, please contact us at least 10 days prior to the program at publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"REGISTER HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/a-dance-for-madalena-tickets-1242293967699?aff=oddtdtcreator","day":"07","month":"Mar","year":"2025","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/a-dance-for-madalena-ana-pi-responds-to-the-exhibition-madalena-santos-reinbolt-a-head-full-of-planets-3-7-25\/"},"5":{"ID":32881,"post_type":"programs","title":"Radical Institutions and Experimental Psychiatry: The Legacy of Francesc Tosquelles on Film","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2024-04-11 14:11:33","name":"radical-institutions-and-experimental-psychiatry-the-legacy-of-francesc-tosquelles-on-film","parent":0,"modified":"2024-09-24 01:16:11","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":31,"name":"Special Events","slug":"special-events","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":31,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":32888,"id":32888,"title":"Untitled design (21)","filename":"Untitled-design-21-2.png","filesize":2491808,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/radical-institutions-and-experimental-psychiatry-the-legacy-of-francesc-tosquelles-on-film\/untitled-design-21-4\/","alt":"","author":"27","description":"","caption":"","name":"untitled-design-21-4","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":32881,"date":"2024-04-11 14:14:35","modified":"2024-04-11 14:14:35","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2097,"height":730,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2-300x104.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":104,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2-768x267.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":267,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2.png","large-width":2097,"large-height":730,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2-1536x535.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":535,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2-2048x713.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":713}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/abandoned-goods-scaled.jpg","headline":"Radical Institutions and Experimental Psychiatry: The Legacy of Francesc Tosquelles on Film","di_date":"2024-06-21","excerpt":" Join us at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) from Friday, June 21, to Sunday, June 23<\/strong>, for series of films followed by discussions exploring the significance of community, self-management and creativity in the care for mental illness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","start_time":"3:30 pm","end_time":"8:30 pm","admission":"In-Person; Tickets: $15 \/ $11 senior and students ","main_content":" The visionary psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles (1912\u20131994) reshaped institutions of therapeutic care during his time at the Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital in Southern France.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n From World War II through the early 1960s, the Catalan doctor devised a series of psychiatric practices that came to be called institutional psychotherapy, based on nonhierarchical and collective interactions between patients, medical staff, on-site workers, and neighboring rural communities. At the heart of this \u201casylum-village\u201d was the Club Paul-Balvet, a cooperative structure whose participants all convened, deliberated on administrative responsibilities, and proposed creative activities like celebrations, plays, dances, and meetings. The hospital had its own printing press, community journal, theater, library, and cinema. This organizational structure, conducive to creative endeavors\u2014like those of Auguste Forestier and Marguerite Sirvins\u2014would impact French artist Jean Dubuffet\u2019s conceptualization of \u201cArt Brut.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n This three-day film series explores approaches to mental health care rooted in community building, self-management, and creativity echoing the institutional psychotherapy developed at Saint-Alban. The program starts with a short film by Fran\u00e7ois Pain on F\u00e9lix Guattari and a docufiction by Abdenour Zahzah on Frantz Fanon; Guattari and Fanon were both psychiatrists and political activists trained and influenced by Tosquelles. On Saturday afternoon, the program dwells on the possibilities of schooling the \u201cmaladjusted\u201d* through reinvented structures of care and knowledge, featuring a short fiction film by Dani\u00e8le Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub and a documentary by Renaud Victor made with special education leader Fernand Deligny. On Saturday evening, a selection of shorts highlights the role of art in counteracting isolation inside and outside of psychiatric hospitals. The program ends with the New York premiere of Mireia Sallar\u00e8s\u2019s film devoted to the forgotten legacy of Tosquelles in Catalonia, Spain, and beyond.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Co-curated by Mathilde Walker-Billaud, AFAM Curator of Programs and Engagement\u00a0 and Sonia Epstein, MoMI Curator Science & Technology\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Film Schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n FRIDAY JUNE 21<\/strong><\/p>\n 6:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n With filmmakers Abdenour Zahzah and Fran\u00e7ois Pain in person<\/span><\/p>\n Abdenour Zahzah, <\/span>True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956<\/i><\/strong>, 2024, 90 min<\/span><\/p>\n Preceded by Fran\u00e7ois Pain, <\/span>F\u00e9lix\u2019s Couch<\/i> (\u201cLe divan de F\u00e9lix<\/i>\u201d)<\/strong>, 1985, 17 min\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n More information<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n SATURDAY JUNE 22<\/strong><\/p>\n 3:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n Fernand Deligny & Renaud Victor, <\/span>This Kid, There<\/i> (\u201cCe gamin, l\u00e0\u201d)<\/i><\/strong>, 1975, 88 min\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Preceded by Dani\u00e8le Huillet et Jean-Marie Straub, <\/span>En Rach\u00e2chan<\/i>t<\/i><\/strong>,<\/strong> 1982, 7 min<\/span><\/p>\n More information<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 6:00 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n Shorts Program: Captive Feast\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n With filmmakers Theo Jean Cuthand and Gernot Wieland in person<\/span><\/p>\n Mario Ruspoli,<\/span> Captive Feast<\/i> (\u201cLa f\u00eate prisonni\u00e8re\u201d<\/i>)<\/strong>, 1962, 17 min\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gernot Wieland, <\/span>Bird in Italian Is Uccello<\/i>,<\/strong> 2021, 14 min<\/span><\/p>\n Pia Borg and Edward Lawrenson, <\/span>Abandoned Goods<\/i><\/strong>,<\/strong> 2014, 36 min<\/span><\/p>\n Theo Jean Cuthand, <\/span>Love & Numbers<\/i><\/strong>,<\/strong> 2014, 7:46 min<\/span><\/p>\n More information<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n SUNDAY JUNE 23<\/strong><\/p>\n 5.30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n With filmmaker Mireia Sallar\u00e8s, exhibition co-curator Joana Mas\u00f3 and scholar Eric Fassin<\/p>\n Mireia Sallar\u00e8s, <\/span>The Potential History of Francesc Tosquelles<\/i><\/strong>,<\/strong> 2021, 135 min<\/span><\/p>\n More information<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Tickets and location:<\/strong><\/p>\n This film series is presented at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) located at 36-01 35th Ave, Queens, New York<\/span><\/p>\n Tickets are $15 \/ $11 senior and students \/ $9 youth (ages 3\u201317) \/ free for MoMI members at the Senior\/Student level and above \/\u00a0free for AFAM members (email\u00a0membership@folkartmuseum.org<\/a> to request discount code). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. A full series pass can be purchased here<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more information or to order tickets, please visit<\/span> MoMI\u2019s website<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Images:<\/b><\/p>\n Left: Pia Borg and Edward Lawrenson,\u00a0Abandoned Goods<\/i><\/strong><\/span>, 2014, film still; <\/span>Right: Fran\u00e7ois Pain, <\/span>F\u00e9lix\u2019s Couch<\/span><\/i>, 1985, film still<\/span><\/p>\n Credits:<\/strong> <\/i><\/p>\n Presented jointly by MoMI and AFAM, lead support for this film series is provided by the Institut Ramon Llull, Nina Beaty, Susan Weiler, and the Anthony Petullo Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Goethe-Institut New York, the <\/span><\/i>Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>the Art Dealers Association of America Foundation, the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the David Davies and Jack Weeden Fund for Exhibitions.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Organized in conjunction with the exhibition <\/span>Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut<\/i><\/b><\/a> at the American Folk Art Museum, New York, from April 12 to August 18, 2024. Co-organized by the Centre de Cultura Contempor\u00e0nia de Barcelona (CCCB) and Les Abattoirs, Mus\u00e9e\u2013Frac Occitanie Toulouse, this four-venue collaboration was previously presented at the Abattoirs, CCCB, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda in Madrid. It developed from a research project entitled \u201cEl llegat oblidat de Francesc Tosquelles\u201d (The forgotten legacy of Francesc Tosquelles), co-produced by the Mir-Puig Private Foundation (Barcelona), the University of Barcelona, and Fundaci\u00f3 Antoni T\u00e0pies (Barcelona).<\/span><\/p>\n *Maladjustment is a term used in psychology to refer the “inability to react successfully and satisfactorily to the demand of one’s environment”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"day":"21","month":"Jun","year":"2024","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/radical-institutions-and-experimental-psychiatry-the-legacy-of-francesc-tosquelles-on-film\/"},"8":{"ID":22854,"post_type":"programs","title":"Southern Sounds: Listening Party with Dust-to-Digital 12\/4\/19","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2019-09-11 20:13:41","name":"southern-sounds-listening-party-with-dust-to-digital-12-4-19","parent":0,"modified":"2019-09-11 20:35:30","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":31,"name":"Special Events","slug":"special-events","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":31,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":22855,"id":22855,"title":"southern-sounds-banner","filename":"southern-sounds-banner.jpg","filesize":1019035,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/southern-sounds-listening-party-with-dust-to-digital-12-4-19\/southern-sounds-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"southern-sounds-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":22854,"date":"2019-09-11 20:13:17","modified":"2019-09-11 20:13:17","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-list.jpg","headline":"Southern Sounds: Listening Party with Dust-to-Digital ","di_date":"2019-12-04","excerpt":" Join us for a listening party hosted by Atlanta-based record company Dust-to-Digital. Founders Lance and April Ledbetter will play recordings issued by their label and discuss the importance of preserving oral histories and music as cultural artifacts.<\/p>\n","start_time":"7:00 pm","end_time":"9:00 pm","admission":"$8 members, students, artists, seniors; $10 general public ","main_content":" Have you ever wondered what the voice of artist Howard Finster sounded like during his sermons? Or what songs Thornton Dial listened to and was inspired by in his studio while he created his iconic artwork? Join us for a listening party hosted by Atlanta-based record company Dust-to-Digital<\/strong><\/a>. Founders Lance and April Ledbetter will play recordings issued by their label and discuss the importance of preserving oral histories and music as cultural artifacts.<\/p>\n Founded by Lance Ledbetter <\/strong>in 1999, Dust-to-Digital is currently operated by Lance and his wife\u00a0April Ledbetter<\/strong>\u00a0in Atlanta, Georgia. Dust-to-Digital began its mission of creating access to hard-to-find music by producing high-quality books, box sets, CDs, DVDs, and vinyl records. The company continues those efforts and has also evolved to the media delivery standards of today\u2014namely, the computer and smart phone. By combining research with images, audio, and videos, Dust-to-Digital is continuing to entertain and to educate new audiences of adventurous listeners.\u00a0In 2012, Lance and April Ledbetter started a non-profit organization. Music Memory<\/a> was formed as a way to take action to ensure the sounds and recordings of our past would be preserved. The goal of this company is to make the music from the past available to researchers, teachers, and the public so that it can educate and enlighten present and future generations. To date, Music Memory has digitized more than 49,000 recordings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image:<\/strong> Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900, LaFayette, AL\u20131980, New Orleans, LA);\u00a0The Greater New Jerusalem<\/em>; c. 1970s; acrylic, gouache, and graphite on paper; 16 x 39 3\/4 in.; Collection of Audrey B. Heckler. Photography \u00a9 Visko Hatfield, courtesy of the Foundation to Promote Self Taught Art. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Purchase ticket","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/southern-sounds-listening-party-with-dust-to-digital-tickets-72432245797","day":"04","month":"Dec","year":"2019","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/southern-sounds-listening-party-with-dust-to-digital-12-4-19\/"},"9":{"ID":22704,"post_type":"programs","title":"Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller 10\/10\/19","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2019-08-27 19:45:20","name":"walter-benjamin-the-storyteller","parent":0,"modified":"2019-10-02 17:27:59","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":31,"name":"Special Events","slug":"special-events","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":31,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":22709,"id":22709,"title":"walter-benjamin-banner","filename":"walter-benjamin-banner.jpg","filesize":244690,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/walter-benjamin-the-storyteller\/walter-benjamin-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"walter-benjamin-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":22704,"date":"2019-08-27 19:41:13","modified":"2019-08-27 19:41:13","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-list.jpg","headline":"Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller\u2014SOLD OUT","di_date":"2019-10-10","excerpt":" Join the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, The New York Review of Books, and the American Folk Art Museum as we take the occasion of the publication of\u00a0The Storyteller Essays<\/em>\u00a0to examine the meaning and enduring relevance of Walter Benjamin\u2019s essay.<\/p>\n","start_time":"7:00 pm","end_time":"9:00 pm","admission":"Free with RSVP","main_content":" Walter Benjamin\u2019s essay \u201cThe Storyteller\u201d is one of his most important\u2014a profound meditation on the contrast between story-telling and mass communication and the immense significance of the apparent fact that \u201cLess and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly.\u201d Join the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR), The New York Review of Books (NYRB), and the American Folk Art Museum as we take the occasion of the NYRB\u2019s publication of\u00a0The Storyteller Essays<\/a><\/em>\u00a0to examine the meaning and enduring relevance of Benjamin\u2019s essay\u2014for modern politics, communication, literature, and sensibility. With BISR\u2019s Christine Smallwood, Suzanne Schneider, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, translator Tess Lewis, and novelist Alexandra Kleeman, we will ask: What distinguishes a story from a novel? How do we acquire knowledge collectively? Why, in the age of mass communication, are we not richer, but poorer in communicable experience? Is political, cultural, and social fragmentation endemic to \u201cmodern\u201d life, and if so, can it be overcome?<\/p>\n A light reception will follow the talk.<\/p>\n Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller\u00a0is organized by the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and The New York Review of Books in partnership with the American Folk Art Museum. <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Image:<\/strong> Lorenz Fr\u00f8lich, Death and Wanderer<\/em>, 1848. 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