“The Jewish Museum presents After ‘The Wild’: Contemporary Art from The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection, an exhibition highlighting contemporary artworks by 47 intergenerational and internationally based artists made between 1963 and 2023. These works are part of a larger gift to the Museum… Read More
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The Hare with Amber Eyes at The Jewish Museum, through May 15, 2022
“The Jewish Museum presents The Hare with Amber Eyes, an exhibition that tells the story of the Ephrussi family—celebrated in the 2010 memoir and The New York Times bestseller of the same name by Edmund de Waal—and showcases the breadth and depth of their history… Read More
Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter at The Jewish Museum, May 21 – September 12, 2021
“The Jewish Museum presents Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter, an exhibition that explores Bourgeois’s complex and ambivalent relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis. Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith, the exhibition showcases a selection of Bourgeois’s psychoanalytic writings — many of them presented to the public for the first time — along… Read More
We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz at Jewish Museum, October 1, 2020 – January 24, 2021
“We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz looks at how artists have responded to the rise of intolerance and authoritarianism, addressing issues surrounding immigration, assimilation, and cultural identity. Jonathan Horowitz (b. 1966, New York City) is an artist working in… Read More
Martha Rosler: Irrespective at Jewish Museum, November 2, 2018 – March 3, 2019
“Martha Rosler: Irrespective is a survey exhibition of the work of the influential artist Martha Rosler. Rosler is considered one of the strongest and most resolute artistic voices of her generation; she is also a prolific writer, lecturer, professor, and advocate for social justice. She skillfully… Read More
Masterpieces & Curiosities: Elaine Lustig Cohen at The Jewish Museum, August 17, 2018 – August 11, 2019
“Masterpieces and Curiosities: Elaine Lustig Cohen features over 30 works by the pioneering graphic designer and artist. One of seven sections that make up the Jewish Museum’s third floor collection exhibition, Scenes from the Collection, ‘Masterpieces and Curiosities’ offers an in-depth examination of a single… Read More
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin at The Jewish Museum, March 17 – August 6, 2017
“The Arcades Project foreshadows our experience of modernity: we absorb an overwhelming mass of information and cultural activity, yet it comes to us in a fragmented form, often through social and digital media, without the orderly coherence that thinkers and artists once predicted for the… Read More
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