The Jewish Museum

06/17/2026

The oldest Jewish congregation in North America is also one of the lenders to "Circa 1776: Jews in Colonial America."

Congregation Shearith Israel, founded in 1654, loaned objects to the exhibition, and on June 29, Laura Leibman, Leonard J. Milberg '53 Professor in American Jewish Studies at Princeton University, and Zachary Edinger, Sexton and Ritual Director of Congregation Shearith Israel, will discuss the works loaned to the exhibition by the congregation, and the relationship between personal and ritual objects.

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early for a preview viewing of the exhibition before the program begins.

The Jewish Museum, Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street
June 29, 2026
6:00 - 7:00 pm
Tickets: $24 General | $14 Seniors | $10 Students | Free for Jewish Museum and Congregation Shearith Israel Members

Tickets include Museum admission:

Attend an evening of conversation inspired by the Jewish Museum’s current exhibition Circa 1776, exploring the lives of Jews in Colonial America, co-presented with Congregation Shearith Israel, founded in 1654 as the first Jewish congregation established in North America. Hear from Laura Leibman, ...

06/16/2026

In Mordecai Ardon’s richly textured “Girl No. 109336” (1950), the figure looks off to the right, a wary expression on her shadowed face. Rather than a portrait of a specific individual, Ardon intended this figure to serve as a universal representation of Holocaust survivors, highlighting the complex relationship between past and present.

“Girl No. 109336” reflects a shift in the artist’s work shaped by the aftermath of World War II. Ardon (1896–1992) is known for exploring memory, identity, and the human experience through landscape, color, and texture

“Girl No. 109336” is on view in “Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collections of the Jewish Museum.” Plan your visit to the Jewish Museum on 5th Ave at 92nd St: https://thejm.net/3XegiIu

🎨: , “Girl No. 109336,” 1950, oil on canvas.

06/15/2026

In 1977, photographer Bern Schwartz captured this portrait of David Hockney in his London studio. In this work, from the Jewish Museum's collection, Hockney stands with a painting of his parents and a self-portrait, wearing the same blue and green striped shirt as in the painting, which he put on at Schwartz’s request.

Born in Bradford, England in 1937, Hockney became one of the defining figures of postwar British art. He was endlessly curious about technology, perception, and how a single image could hold multiple angles and moments at once.

In 1969, Hockney's painting "A Table" was shown at the Jewish Museum as part of "European Painters Today." The geometric objects arranged on a tabletop, a cloth that recalls the theater curtains appearing in Hockney’s other work from this period, and a background rendered in two tones of gray create a formal elegance—a quieter register than the vibrant landscapes and pool scenes he's best known for. Here, Hockney was experimenting with the color-staining techniques of the Color Field painters, bending them toward his own figurative purposes.

The Jewish Museum honors the life and legacy of David Hockney, who passed away last week at the age of 88.

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📷 Bern Schwartz, "David Hockney, his studio and home, Notting Hill Gate, London,"1977, printed 2025. 2025-119; Installation view of European Painters Today, at the Jewish Museum, NY, January 21-March 16, 1969.

06/14/2026

A world cup.

Tom Otterness, "The Cup of World Peace," 1994. Sterling silver and parcel gilt. 5 1/2 × 5 × 3 7/8 in. 1994-12b.1-2

06/11/2026

"I found my way back to Iraq through making art."

Born in Baghdad in 1938 to a family of Orthodox Jews, Oded Halahmy learned to carve in his father's goldsmith shop. In 1951, his family was airlifted from Iraq to Israel as part of a mass migration of Jews fleeing persecution amid rising antisemitism. This early experience of displacement deepened his connection to the cultures of Mesopotamia, which have continuously shaped the form and meaning of his work.

"Oded Halahmy: Models in Wood" presents sculptures made primarily in the 1970s, following Halahmy's move to New York after studying at Saint Martin's School of Art. The titles of the sculptures evoke family, ritual, and spatial orientation. Their forms suggest ladders and windows. Each work is an intimate, hand-wrought expression of a singular artistic language rooted in memory and movement.

On view now on Floor 3 within "Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum."

📷 Photos by Rebecca Frank, Curatorial Assistant

06/09/2026

In 1921, Man Ray photographed Berenice Abbott looking tired and dreamy, her chin cupped in her hands, staring directly into the camera.

Man Ray often photographed and celebrated figures who subverted traditional gender norms — challenging social structures was central to his practice, one that blurred the lines between acceptable norms and unrestrained expression.

Abbott was his apprentice in Paris in the 1920s before becoming an accomplished photographer in her own right. A distinct style of this time period was short hair on women, which Abbott kept throughout her life after cutting it upon her high school graduation.

Abbott never married. She lived alongside her partner, art critic Elizabeth McCausland, for 30 years until McCausland’s death. Her career took her from Europe to New York City, where she documented the rapidly changing city landscape around her, and eventually to Maine, where she spent the rest of her life and turned her lens to science photography.

This photo from the Museum’s permanent collection was featured in the Jewish Museum’s recent exhibition, “Joan Semmel: In the Flesh,” as a work that inspired Semmel.

📸: (born Emmanuel Radnitzky), “Berenice Abbott,” 1922, printed c. 1950s. Gelatin silver print, Sheet and image: 7 15/16 × 6 1/16 in. (20.2 × 15.4 cm). The Jewish Museum, NY.

06/08/2026

Good art. Great company. Happy .

Bring your person to Museum Mile Festival tomorrow, June 9, 6 – 9 pm on Fifth Avenue. Tag us in your photos — we want to see who you brought. 🎶

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📷: Opening reception for "Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds" at the Jewish Museum, NY, March 17, 2026. Photo by Scott Rudd © Scott Rudd Events.
Opening reception for "Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds" at the Jewish Museum, NY, March 17, 2026. Photo by Scott Rudd © Scott Rudd Events.
Opening reception for "Joan Semmel: In the Flesh" at the Jewish Museum, NY, December 9, 2025. Photo by Scott Rudd © Scott Rudd Events.
Opening reception for the exhibitions "Anish Kapoor: Early Works," "Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum," and the Pruzan Family Center for Learning at the Jewish Museum on Tuesday, October 21, 2025. Photo by Scott Rudd Events.

06/07/2026

Alex Bradley Cohen centers family and friends in his portraiture. That closeness only deepened during the pandemic, when Cohen lived in the same apartment building as his parents.

In “Parents #4” (2022), on view in “Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collections of the Jewish Museum,” his father’s phone becomes a portal to the outside world, its glowing screen and scrolling gesture reflecting one of the primary ways people stayed connected during the pandemic. His mother’s Matisse-like hand seems to reach beyond the canvas, extending toward something just out of view.

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🎨: , “Parents #4,” 2022. The Jewish Museum, New York. Purchase: Milton and Miriam Handler Endowment Fund, 2023-76

06/04/2026

In 1961, Bernard Perlin painted this scene at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx of nurses attending to patients in open cubicles — a portrait of a public hospital straining under the weight of a growing neighborhood and an unequal healthcare system. This work was made as an illustration for a 1961 Fortune magazine story, “What the Doctor Can’t Order - But You Can,” which examined inequities in American hospitals.

Perlin was one of the most visible q***r artists of the twentieth century. He was at drag balls in Harlem in the 1930s, in West Village bars in the 1950s, cruising in Cairo between assignments for Life and Fortune magazines. In 2009, just months after same-sex marriage became legal in Connecticut, he married his longtime partner.

Perlin's experiences as a gay man shaped his depictions of other marginalized people. He knew what it meant to exist outside the center of things, and he looked at his subjects with the clarity that comes from that knowledge.

"Hospital Corridor" is a new addition to the Jewish Museum’s collection, and is the first work by Perlin to enter the collection.

🎨 Bernard Perlin, "Hospital Corridor," 1961. Tempera on paper. 14 × 25 1/8 in. 2026-2

06/02/2026

The 48th Annual is almost here. ✨

Tuesday, June 9 | 6 – 9 pm

Gili Yalo performs live sets blending Ethiopian roots with Soul, Funk, Psychedelic, and Jazz — part of our ongoing collaboration with .

Families create playful artworks inspired by Paul Klee.

And visitors to the Jewish Museum Shop receive a free gift with any purchase of $10 or more.

is the next stop!

📷 46th Annual Museum Mile Festival at the Jewish Museum, NY, June 18, 2024. Photo by Matthew Carasella.