“The Jewish Museum presents Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, a contemporary art exhibition devoted to the imagination and legacy of the influential singer/songwriter, man of letters, and global icon from Montreal, Canada. Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything includes commissioned works by a range of… Read More
“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
“Chaim Soutine (1893–1943) is one of the twentieth century’s great painters of still life. In the Paris of the 1920s, Soutine was a double outsider—an immigrant Jew and a modernist. Guided by his expressive artistic instincts, he both embraced the traditional genre of still life… Read More
“Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s pluralistic practice encompasses painting, drawing, collage, book making, sculpture, and installation as well as ceramics, furniture, lighting, textiles, and wallpaper. He emerged as an artist in the early 1970s with groundbreaking performative installations that infused everyday life with art and politics and stood at the intersection of the… Read More
“For the first time in 25 years, the Jewish Museum has organized a major new exhibition of its unparalleled collection. Scenes from the Collection transforms the entire third floor with nearly 600 works from antiquities to contemporary art, many of which are on view for… Read More
“They quickly became close friends: Dr. Paul Alexandre, the young French physician, enamored of art, and Amedeo Modigliani, the fledgling Italian Jewish artist, recently arrived in Paris. Between 1907 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914 they met almost daily. Despite his modest… Read More
“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
“The Jewish Museum presents the first U.S. exhibition focused on French designer and architect Pierre Chareau (1883-1950). Showcasing rare furniture, lighting fixtures, and interiors, as well as designs for the extraordinary Maison de Verre, the glass house completed in Paris in 1932, Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture… Read More
“Memphis Does Hanukkah focuses on Menorah #7 (1986) by the Los Angeles-based designer and artist Peter Shire (American, b. 1947). Made with industrial materials and “finish-fetish” detailing, it recalls the Pop, car, and surf cultures of the artist’s hometown. The style speaks to Shire’s knowledge… Read More
“In a conventional museum experience, you, the visitor, may consume art only by looking at the paintings, sculptures, or photographs on view. You are not allowed to touch the works, and certainly not able to take them home. In defiance of this well-established standard, Take… Read More
Mrs. Carl Meyer and her Children by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is a seductive and deeply revealing group portrait that captures the world of a privileged family of Jewish origin in late Victorian England. It depicts Adèle Meyer, a wealthy British philanthropist, well-known society hostess, and political activist, with… Read More
“Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) was one of the most influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet he is not a familiar figure outside of his native Brazil. He is best known for his iconic seaside pavements on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, and for… Read More
