Posted @withrepost • @pamm As a 21st-century museum, dedicated to representing diverse, multicultural communities, #PAMM strives to serve as a forum for open, honest, and difficult dialogue while creating understanding through the power of art. PAMM condemns threats of violence and harmful antisemitic rhetoric, and we stand in solidarity with the Jewish community. From themes in artwork to documentaries and books, there are so many places to start learning about the roots of antisemitism in order to combat it. ⁣ ⁣ PAMM collection artist Deborah Kass' work and technique of appropriation is a critical commentary on the intersection of social power relations, identity politics, and the historically dominant position of male artists in the art world. This collection work belongs to a series titled The Warhol Project (1992—2000), in which #DeborahKass appropriates the work of #AndyWarhol, inserting alternate imagery that points to her Jewish ethnicity and her political interests in feminism and gay identity. ⁣ ⁣ In the early 1960s, Warhol began depicting well-known celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Jacquelyn Kennedy, Judy Garland, and Elizabeth Taylor, adopting the technique of silkscreening—a method strictly associated at the time with the graphics on mass produced, commercial products. Double Silver Yentl (My Elvis) relates to a set of works that Warhol based on a publicity still for the Western film Flaming Star (1960), starring Elvis Presley. In Presley’s place, Kass has inserted an image of Barbara Streisand from the 1983 film Yentl, in which Streisand portrays an adolescent Jewish woman who disguises herself as a man in order to study Talmudic Law. The result substitutes the gunslinging machismo of Presley’s persona with the courage and boldness of the Yentl character, while celebrating sexual ambiguity. As in Warhol’s original work, the repetitive figure in the painting evokes the frozen movement of the individual frames of a film reel. ⁣ ⁣ Image: Deborah Kass. “Double Silver Yentl (My Elvis),” 1993. Silkscreen and acrylic on canvas, 72" x 72". Courtesy Artist Rights Society/ ARS New York. @renniecollect @kavigupta_ #deborahkass @artpatron @bobrennie