{"id":272,"date":"2008-11-05T11:43:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T15:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/2008\/11\/05\/jews-and-american-comics-an-exhibition-of-popular-art\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T11:43:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T15:43:26","slug":"jews-and-american-comics-an-exhibition-of-popular-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/jews-and-american-comics-an-exhibition-of-popular-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Jews and American Comics: An Exhibition of Popular Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/libweb\/exhibits\/images\/comics.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"6\"><br \/>\n<strong>November 4 &#8211; December 19, 2008<br \/>\nJohn Hay Library<br \/>\n20 Prospect Street<br \/>\nProvidence, Rhode Island 02912<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/hours\/index.php?cur_library=hours_johnhay\">Library Hours<\/a><br \/>\nBased on the collections of the John Hay Library, this exhibit captures the contributions Jewish writers and artists made to comic art since its origin in the Yiddish press of the early 1900s.<br \/>\nOn display are examples of the art form drawn from the Hay&#8217;s collection of more than 70,000 comic books, Artists whose work is included in the exhibit include Rube Goldberg, Harvey Kurtzman, Al Capp, Will Eisner, Trina Robbins and Aline Kominsky Crumb, on display in works from Action Comics to Mad Magazine to the Vault of Horror.<br \/>\nOn Sunday, November 16, 2-4, the student curators &#8212; Randy Alevi, Lara Danielle Fox, Franklin Kanin, Kaitlyn Laabs, Chelsea Miro, Cassie Owens, Emily M. Paiz and Ben Stein &#8212; will hold an exhibition open house, to which the public is invited.<br \/>\nFor further information contact <a href=\"mailto:Rosemary_Cullen@brown.edu\">Rosemary_Cullen@brown.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 4 &#8211; December 19, 2008 John Hay Library 20 Prospect Street Providence, Rhode Island 02912 \u00bb Library Hours Based on the collections of the John Hay Library, this exhibit captures the contributions Jewish writers and artists made to comic art since its origin in the Yiddish press of the early 1900s. On display are <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/jews-and-american-comics-an-exhibition-of-popular-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Jews and American Comics: An Exhibition of Popular Art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}