Contemporary Art/Recent Acquisitions - April 11 - July 27, 2003'; $program_time = ''; $program_location = 'THE JEWISH MUSEUM
1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street'; $program_detail = 'In this freewheeling televised discussion, Mel Brooks, Larry Goldberg, Dan Greenberg, Stan Herman, George Segal and David Steinberg speak candidly about the influence their mothers had in shaping their lives and their comedy. Preceded by excerpts from the 1964 LP "How To Be a Jewish Mother" with Gertrude Berg.

Introduction and post screening discussion with: J. Hoberman, senior film critic for The Village Voice and guest cocurator of Entertaining America. His books include Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds and The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism.

This program has been funded by a generous endowment from the Saul and Harriet M. Rothkopf Family Foundation.

This episode is part of The Jewish Museum\'s National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting.

Tickets: $12 general public, $10 students/over 65, $9 members'; $program_caption = 'Featuring works acquired within the past two years and created since 1970, the exhibition highlights video, installation art and photography, and also includes drawing, painting, and sculpture. Large-scale, dramatic, and thought provoking, the works in this exhibition explore aspects of Jewish culture through personal encounters, political observations, satire, and humor. '; ?>