Something Funny Happened to Me on the Way to the Museum — Lecturer Dr. Doron Luria

Art is not a funny thing, and yet humor can also be found in it. “Timeless” humor versus “period-dependent humor,” embarrassing mistakes and ridiculous errors in the history of art, humor that would not meet today’s standards of political correctness, and more. Why does the director of the Louvre Museum believe that the Tel Aviv Museum is in Tunisia? How does the Spanish painter Francisco Goya reveal what he really thinks of the Queen of Spain in her portrait? Hanoch Piven’s political cartoons, Banksy’s humor, and more.