Listen to Mayer's cellphone tour of the exhibition and book

Use your cell phone to listen to the artist tell dramatic, humorous, and surprising stories about his paintings. If you are in the exhibition, look for the cell phone symbol. Can't get to the exhibition? Open the book and turn to the page with the picture, as indicated below.

Then, call 510.550.7597 and follow the prompts. To hear a story, press the number for the painting, as indicated below, followed by the # sign. To leave a comment, press 0 # [zero followed by the pound sign] at any time during the tour. To hear other people's comments, press any number from 24 on, followed by the # sign. Many thanks to Shawna Silver, our ace sound editor.

1. Curator’s Introduction
2. Purim Play: The Kraków Wedding, p. 34
3. Town Panorama, pp. 16-17
4. Market Day, pp.91, 237, 108
5. Butcher Carrying a Calf, p. 110
6. Jadźka the Prostitute Shows off her Wares at the End of Market Day at Harshl Kishke’s Well, p. 123
7. The Kleptomaniac Slipping a Fish Down Her Bosom, p. 127
8. Boy with Herring, p. 6
9. Boy in the White Pajamas, p. 252
10. Slaughter of the Innocents I: Execution of My Father’s Family at Szydłowiec, 1942, p. 184, 185
11. Mother Giving Birth to My Brother Vadye, p. 190
12. Jadwiga Washing Laundry, p. 226
13. Stealing the Laundry, p. 228
14. Mother Blessing the Sabbath Candles, p. 210
15. Simchas Torah, p. 69
16. Reading Psalms before the Expulsion, p. 61
17. Synagogue Interior, p. 51
18. Shaving the Corpse, p. 26
19. The Black Wedding in the Cemetery, 1892, p. 14
20. The Hunchback’s Wedding, p. 324
21. Funeral of the Father of my Christian Friend, pp. 80-81
22. Iłża series, pp. 172, 175, 176, 177
23. Leaving series, pp. 346, 349, 451