Breaking the Frame is a podcast featuring interviews that explore how museums and the people who work in them shape American history and culture — past and present. This episode, we speak with Ms. Rebecca Shaykin, who approaches American art through a feminist lens for her work as a Curator at the Jewish Museum in New York City.

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More information about the artworks and topics discussed in this episode:

• The Jewish Museum website https://thejewishmuseum.org/
• Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art exhibition https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/edith-halpert-and-the-rise-of-american-art
• Edith Halpert: The Downtown Gallery and the Rise of American Art catalogue https://shop.thejewishmuseum.org/edith-halpert-the-downtown-gallery-and-the-rise-of-american-art
• Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte! Exhibition https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/marta-minujin-arte-arte-arte
• “Rocking the Art World at 80: Marta Minujín is about to get her due at a Jewish Museum solo exhibition — her first major show in the United States.” - New York Times article about the Marta Minujín exhibition https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/arts/design/argentinian-artist-marta-minujin-exhibition-jewish-museum.html
• Florine Stettheimer https://www.moma.org/artists/5657
• Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston, upcoming exhibition https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/trenton-doyle-hancock-confronts-philip-guston
• Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston catalogue https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300278200/draw-them-in-paint-them-out/
• Kali Spitzer Photography https://www.kalispitzer.com/about

Credits:

• Hosts: Emily C. Casey and R. Ruthie Dibble
• Production Assistant: Katherine White
• Additional research prepared by: Luke Chupp and Beatrice Levine, graduate students of the Spring 2024 HA 706/906 Seminar in American Art: American Museums: Race, Class, Labor at the University of Kansas
• Theme music: "Deliberate Thought" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
• Artwork: Designed by Katherine White, featuring a frame (ca. 1849-1858) created by the United States Pottery Company currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0)