™Ilse Bing: From Jewish Avant-Garde Photographer to Nancy Lee Katz’s Most Complicated Sitter
Thu, Dec 3 · 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Listed on MUSAY · checked Oct 22
When
Thursday, December 3, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Where
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Price
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About
NANCY LEE KATZ: A PRIVATE PANTHEON PROGRAM Join the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life for Ilse Bing: From Jewish Avant-Garde Photographer to Nancy Lee Katz’s Most Complicated Sitter, an exhibition-based lecture by Magnes Senior Curator, Dr. Alissa Schapiro. Drawing on her own recent scholarship, Schapiro will analyze Nancy Lee Katz’s portrait of photographer Ilse Bing — currently on view in Nancy Lee Katz: A Private Pantheon — within the larger context of Bing’s life and career as a pioneering female photographer in Germany and France whose world was upended by the Holocaust and her flight to the United States. Thursday, November 3, 2026 | 5:30 – 7:00 pm In person at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA If you have any questions about accessibility or require accommodations to participate in this event, please contact us at magnes@berkeley.edu or call us at (510) 643-2526 with as much advance notice as possible. About Alissa Schapiro Dr. Alissa Schapiro is Senior Curator at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. In her previous role as Curator and Collections Specialist at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Schapiro oversaw the museum’s collection and curated exhibitions including TORN Project by Susan Lerner, This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement, and RECLAIMED: A Family Painting. Schapiro also co-curated Life Magazine and the Power of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and she has contributed to exhibitions and catalogues for the Art Institute of Chicago, Tate Britain, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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Getting there
The Magnes does not operate its own parking lot. Two- and four-hour metered street parking is available throughout downtown Berkeley, payable by credit or debit card. Nearby paid garages include: Allston Way Parking Garage — between Shattuck and Milvia Oxford Parking Garage — on Kittredge, west of Oxford Center Street Garage — 2025 Center Street, accessible from Center or Addison Availability is not guaranteed, and many lots near campus charge special event pricing during major campus events…
Venue hours on Thursday
11:00 am–7:00 pm
The venue’s general opening hours. This event’s time comes from the listing.
Added to MUSAY Oct 10, 2026.