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NEWS | FILMS | EVENTS | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 Director’S Note NEWS | FILMS | EVENTS | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 Director’s Note Museum Welcomes Open Face From the inception of our Visitor Center of the best places to eat in Rochester. The luncheonette attracted a loyal following Project, we planned to transform the One of the suggestions was Open Face, among a diverse clientele. Jared continued experience of eating in the café at the an unassuming and perennially hip sandwich to invent new dishes, while mindful not to George Eastman Museum. The new café shop in the South Wedge. It immediately deprive customers of their longtime favorites. is located near the new main entrance became my favorite place for lunch, but Despite thirteen years of success, Jared and at the heart of the museum complex, eating there remained an infrequent treat. closed Open Face in 2017 to pursue other within the area formerly occupied by the I ate almost every workday at the museum’s interests. museum shop. In the Palm House, the café—where the team led by Mary Scholl Several months ago, I approached Jared limestone columns have been freed from (who retired in early 2020) provided about reviving his vision for Open Face the (not original) narrow brick walls that consistently good food, friendly service, in the beautiful new café space at the had surrounded them, allowing sunlight and irresistible convenience. Eastman Museum. We are most fortunate to stream into the main café space. With Open Face Sandwich Eatery, on South that our proposed collaboration captured its additional seating in the Palm House, Avenue, was founded by Jared Valentine his imagination. the café will have the capacity for more and a partner in 2004, when the South than 70 people. At the museum, Open Face redux offers Wedge still had many empty storefronts. similar fare. The soups are consistently One of my greatest pleasures in life comes Without culinary training, Jared spent excellent. There are numerous vegan or from eating. When I took the position as a year freely creating and then carefully vegetarian sandwiches, such as corn mash, director of the George Eastman Museum refining a variety of signature sandwiches, chickpea, soft brie, and toasted Havarti. in October 2012, I sought recommendations soups, salads, savory sides, and desserts. Open Face at Eastman Museum is now open for takeout and curbside pickup. Pictured: Creative director and 2 manager Jared Valentine (center), with Pauline Coles and lead café associate Heather Southern (left and right). GEM | JAN/FEB 2021 THANK YOU TO OUR JANUARY/FEBRUARY PROGRAM SUPPORTERS The chicken salad and maple turkey For information on how you or your business can be a part of all that the George Eastman Museum offers, sandwiches are available closed face or as contact Lisa Ann Seischab at (585) 327-4942 or [email protected]. open-face melts. The sides—ginger carrots, pickled beets, a simple salad with a bright ginger dressing, and sublime baguette chips— inspire cravings. Jared’s oversized cookies and sandwich cookies, Cheesy Eddie’s carrot cake, and Red Fern vegan jam bars each offer a welcome indulgence. We continue to serve Royal Café gelato, which has long been a favorite at the museum’s café, and are now featuring New City coffee. Currently, Open Face is offering its full menu for takeout or curbside pickup. (Unfortunately, at press time, we are not able to accommodate diners in our café space because of COVID-19 restrictions.) I have been truly thrilled to be able to take food from Open Face back to my desk for lunch or back to my home for dinner. Ample parking is convenient to our new entrance and the café, and going to Open Face does not require museum admission. I heartily recommend that you give Open Face takeout a try. Charina Endowment Fund Susan and Nathan Robfogel Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation The Rohauer Collection Foundation Jared Valentine is the creative director and Jacques and Dawn Lipson Visiting Rubens Family Foundation manager of Open Face at Eastman Museum. Artist Fund Save America’s Treasures grant program, The Louis B. Mayer Foundation funded by the Historic Preservation Fund Heather Southern is the lead café associate. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation as administered by the National Park Service, They are assisted by Pauline Coles. Please and Historic Preservation Department of the Interior join us in welcoming them to the George The Packard Humanities Institute Thomas N. Tischer, PhD Eastman Museum team. Bruce Barnes, PhD Ron and Donna Fielding Director OPEN FACE AT EASTMAN MUSEUM TAKEOUT NOW AVAILABLE Open Face is now available for takeout The George Eastman Museum is supported with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor and curbside pickup only. Order in Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the advance by calling (585) 327-4940 or Humanities, and the County of Monroe, and with private contributions from individuals, corporations, and foundations. Thank you. in person at the café (use the Thomas Tischer Visitor Center entrance). Hours and sample menu are available ON THE COVER Carl Chiarenza (American, b. 1935), Rockland 2, 1979, gelatin silver print, 16 × 13½ in., courtesy at eastman.org/openface. of the artist. © Carl Chiarenza. On view beginning February 5 in Carl Chiarenza: Journey into the Unknown—see page 6 for details. The George Eastman Museum bulletin is published six times a year. © 2021 George Eastman Museum. 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607-2298. 3 All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. ISSN: 1055-3886. Please direct comments to [email protected]. Exhibition William Kentridge: Second-hand Reading (2013) A lyrical animated video by acclaimed artist Commenting on this work, Kentridge digital-born works to the museum. The William Kentridge (South African, b. 1955), describes a book “as a kind of material gift comprised both original negatives Second-hand Reading (2013) is now on view depiction of one’s head, of the number of and positive prints covering Kentridge’s at the George Eastman Museum. thoughts that can zoom past, like the phrases entire career as a filmmaker, as well as in a dictionary or encyclopedia.” all of the master elements of his works in Kentridge is best known for his animated electronic and digital media. As the home films made with his groundbreaking The soundtrack is a traditional funeral hymn of the definitive collection and archive of technique of photographing a succession of in Sesotho language performed by composer Kentridge’s time-based works, the George charcoal drawings rendered on a single sheet Neo Muyanga in response to the 2012 police Eastman Museum is the leading resource of paper. The seven-minute Second-hand massacre of 34 striking mine workers at for the appreciation and study of this Reading transforms two publications—a 1914 Marikana, South Africa. The following is a extraordinary body of work. edition of Cassell’s Cyclopædia of Mechanics translation of the lyrics into English: with pages inserted from a 1936 publication When the rain comes again / in torrents Second-hand Reading is on view through of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary— When it rains / please remember me January 31, on a loop in the Multipurpose Hall. into a flip-book background. Rendered in See how thirsty / and wretched I am charcoal, ink, and watercolor, the artist’s Please permit some drops / to fall ruminations are explored through a selection And wet me / a little too of recurring figures, poetic aphorisms, and landscapes traversed by Kentridge’s own In 2015, William Kentridge donated the restlessly pacing form. complete set of his films, videos, and Second-hand Reading (William Kentridge, South Africa 2013, 7 min., HD video), George Eastman Museum, 4 gift of William Kentridge. © William Kentridge GEM | JAN/FEB 2021 Seasonal Display Dutch Connection —In Person & Online Get an early peek at spring this February In addition to regular Wednesday–Sunday ABOUT DUTCH CONNECTION at the museum’s annual Dutch Connection hours, the museum will be open on Tuesdays Between 1905 and 1932, George Eastman floral display. A welcome treat in the midst from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the run of ordered tens of thousands of bulbs from Holland of winter, the show features thousands of Dutch Connection. We will also extend every year. The orders were mostly for tulips, colorful tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, amaryllis, our hours until 7 p.m. on three Thursdays, narcissus, and hyacinths for indoor forcing, and freesias, and spring annuals filling areas of February 11, 18, and 25. Find information to tulips for outside beds. Eastman’s annual bulb George Eastman’s historic mansion. help you plan your visit at eastman.org/visit. orders were inspired by the flower fields he saw while bicycling through the countryside during TICKETS & MUSEUM HOURS ONLINE OFFERINGS a trip to Holland in 1895. The present-day display is inspired by Eastman’s original orders This year, nonmembers are required to Join us for a virtual talk and tour with placed with Dutch bulb companies. purchase admission tickets in advance. Landscape Manager Dan Bellavia on Tickets can be purchased online at any point February 17 (see p. 9 for details). prior to visiting. Dutch Connection is on display Also available online are downloadable February 5–28 throughout the historic Museum members and other guests receiving activities for kids to try at home, an audio mansion. Generously supported by Gerald free admission do not need to purchase introduction, and a virtual 360-degree tour and Karen Kral. In-kind support provided tickets in advance—just show your member for those unable to see the show in person— by Monroe County Parks Department and card, military ID, or SNAP/EBT card at the or to share with friends and family from afar.
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