Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?

Josh Kornbluth’s new one-man show Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? is an investigation into art, identity, and Groucho Marx.

An icon of Bay Area performance, Kornbluth based his show on the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s exhibition Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered (on view through January 25, 2009). The show offers a humorous and penetrating take on the ten cultural luminaries like Albert Einstein, George Gershwin, Golda Meir, the Marx Brothers, and Gertrude Stein painted by Andy Warhol in his 1980 series of portraits of ten famous Jews of the twentieth century. 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. After each performance, Kornbluth will interview an expert on one of the historical figures in the exhibition, as well as engage in a “talk-back” with the audience. The show will highlight Kornbluth’s rigorous and irreverent mix of autobiography, music, philosophy and improvisation.