Experience Art (for Free!) Without Leaving Home This Winter
The
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers invites art lovers to come together this winter
during a variety of free virtual programs on Zimmerli at Home. Plus, visit
the site to experience the museum—wherever you are, whenever you
want. Explore eMuseum, Make Art at Home, Art + Music, Virtual Backgrounds,
Online Exhibitions, Artist Interviews, Virtual Events, Staff Favorites, and
Videos, including recordings of events you may have missed live. Please note
that the museum building remains closed to the public and in-person programs
are suspended until further notice.
Two free film series are being offered in conjunction with
the recent Zimmerli exhibition Everyday Soviet: Soviet
Industrial Design and Nonconformist Art (1959-1989), which was
co-curated with the Moscow Design Museum.
Start a new holiday tradition with The Irony of Fate, or
Enjoy Your Bath! This 1976 Soviet screwball romantic comedy streams for
free on Zimmerli at Home, from December 26 through January 3. One
of the most successful Soviet television productions of all time, it has become
a New Year’s Eve tradition in Russia. An undertone of social criticism about
the drab uniformity of Brezhnev-era architecture, furniture, and everyday items
reveals the particularities of Soviet daily life, as the characters find
themselves in curious and absurd situations shaped by their living
environments. The film also addresses universal themes of love, betrayal, and
friendship within the unique setting of the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
Directed by Eldar Ryazanov, The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy
Your Bath! is in Russian with English subtitles and presented in two parts
(a total of three hours). It is screened with permission from Mosfilm.
On Thursdays in
January, view the film series The History of Russian Design. Beginning
at 4:00 p.m. (ET) on January 7, 14, 21, and 28, each 20-minute episode of the
documentary is followed by a live Q&A with Everyday Soviet co-curators
Julia Tulovsky, Curator of Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art at the
Zimmerli, and Alexandra Sankova, Director of the Moscow Design Museum. Details
and registration information will be posted on go.rutgers.edu/zimmerlievents in late
December.
Art Together offers free family art activities either live on
Zoom or recorded, to view at your convenience, on Zimmerli at Home. Join
upcoming sessions on January 2 and February 6. Plus, invite friends and
extended family to log on from their locations. Register (up to the program
start time) at go.rutgers.edu/arttogether.
Artists of all ages are welcome, but sessions are best suited for ages 5 to 13,
joined by their grown-ups. Recorded sessions are posted
on Zimmerli at Home, including projects inspired by still life and collage
works in the museum’s collection, as well as the exhibition Mood Books: The
Children’s Stories of Alvin Tresselt and Roger Duvoisin.
Please note that
first Tuesday programming for Art Before/After Hours takes a break in January
and returns on February 2, 2021. Recordings of previous events are available on
Zimmerli at Home Videos, including
programming that marked Day With(out) Art/World AIDS Day on December 1.
The
Zimmerli hosted a Zoom panel discussion about the historical and contemporary
intersections of HIV/AIDS advocacy and the arts, with a special emphasis on the
role the museum’s late director Thomas Sokolowski played. In addition, a new
documentary short about Sokolowski, One Singular Sensation created by
Rutgers alumnus Samuel Vladimirsky, is available.
The Zimmerli Art
Museum remains closed to the public and in-person programs are suspended until
further notice. News regarding operations will be posted on the museum’s home page. For Rutgers
updates, please visit Universitywide
COVID-19 Information.
ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM|RUTGERS
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum houses more than
60,000 works of art, ranging from ancient to contemporary art. The permanent
collection features particularly rich holdings in 19th-century French art;
Russian art from icons to the avant-garde; Soviet nonconformist art from the
Dodge Collection; and American art with notable holdings of prints. In
addition, small groups of antiquities, old master paintings, as well as art
inspired by Japan and original illustrations for children’s books, provide
representative examples of the museum’s research and teaching message at
Rutgers. One of the largest and most distinguished university-based art museums
in the nation, the Zimmerli is located on the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey. Established in 1766, Rutgers is America’s
eighth oldest institution of higher learning and a premier public research
university.
SUPPORT
The
Zimmerli’s operations, exhibitions, and programs are funded in part by Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey, and income from the Avenir Foundation
Endowment and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment, among others.
Additional support comes from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts, as well
as donors, members, and friends of the museum.