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Tuesday January 24, 2012
10:00AM - 5:55PM

Project Mah Jongg - Opening Day

Category :: Community
January 24 - April 22, 2012

Project Mah Jongg is the first exhibition of its kind—taking visitors on an exploration of the game’s cultural meanings through sight, sound, text, and play. The game of mah jongg is explored in dynamic formats throughout the exhibition, including 20th-century popular objects and a visitor-activated soundscape that features clacking tiles, exclamations from games by Jewish-American and Chinese-American players, reminiscences, and vintage music. Large-scale graphics by Isaac Mizrahi, Maira Kalman, Bruce McCall, and Christoph Niemann illustrate mah jongg as an ongoing muse for contemporary artists. A game table at the core of the exhibition invites visitors to engage in the continuing tradition. The exhibition serves as historical treatment of the topic, a placeholder for memory, a generator of whimsy, and a stage set for the game’s continuation. The environment conveys how mah jongg is much more than a game: it is a carrier of fantasy, identity, memory, and meaning.

Project Mah Jongg is made possible through the generosity of the National Mah Jongg League. Additional support is provided by Sylvia Hassenfeld and 2wice Arts Foundation. Exhibit design by Abbott Miller, Pentagram.

Local sponsors include BNY Mellon Wealth Management, Margaret Wong & Associates, and Pearl of the Orient.
For More Information:
Location/Venue:
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
Address:
2929 Richmond Rd.
City:
Beachwood
Zip/Postal:
44122
Contact Name:
Adam Teresi
Phone:
216.593.0575
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