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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.

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

06/01/2026

This photograph titled “Gay Rights” (1979) shows a man standing on a New York City street in front of two notable signs — one reads “Gay Rights,” and another that says “Register & Vote.” A cigarette dangles from his lip as he poses with his right hand on his hip, the other holding his cane.

To open Pride Month, a photograph by Flo Fox in the Jewish Museum's collection captured during a pivotal year in LGBTQ+ history. In 1979, the first National March on Washington for Le***an and Gay rights took place bringing le***an and gay communities together in a moment of historic unity. It was also the ten year anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

Fox was an iconic New York City photographer and disability advocate, dedicated to capturing big moments and atmosphere in the streets. She was committed to her work as a photographer and teacher despite blindness, eventual complete paralysis from multiple sclerosis, and lung cancer.

📸: Flo Fox, Gay Rights, 1979, printed later. Digital print, sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm), image: 12 × 8 1/16 in. (30.5 × 20.5 cm). The Jewish Museum, New York. Purchase: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, 2025-72

05/31/2026

A significant figure in the Impressionist movement, Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was born into a family of Sephardic and French descent and frequently depicted urban and country scenes to dignify the lives of common people.

“The Louvre, Foggy Morning (Third Series)” (1902) was part of a series in which Pissarro painted variations in light and mood using the same subject. The sketchy, loose brushstrokes create the effect of Paris in the morning haze, and Pissarro situates the Louvre—one of the world’s grandest artistic repositories—at the center of the city’s collective life and industry.

🎟️ Plan your visit to see this work in person and experience the Jewish Museum’s new galleries. Visit us at 5th Ave at 92nd St, NYC: https://thejm.net/3XegiIu

🎨: , “The Louvre, Foggy Morning (Third Series),” 1902, oil on canvas.

05/25/2026

Did you know the Jewish Museum is part of the Blue Stars Museums initiative? Military ID holders and their families receive free admission to the Jewish Museum year-round—a small token of appreciation for United States service members. This program is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and Blue Star Families 💙

On view through August 9, come see “Circa 1776: Jews in Colonial America” – a special focus exhibition that explores themes of Jewish life in colonial and postcolonial America, located in a focus gallery in the Museum’s Floor Three galleries. Plan your visit through the link in bio.

📸: 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.

The Jewish Museum, New York. Photograph © 1993 Peter Aaron/Esto. All rights reserved.

05/24/2026

A man dressed in a white collared shirt, tie, vest, and hat stands outside a Lower East Side shop selling Jewish ceremonial objects. Signs in Yiddish advertise Talitim, Machzorim, and Sidurim, and among the Hebrew lettering is a sign that reads "God Bless America."

Andreas Feininger captured this scene sometime in the mid-20th century. Born in 1906, Feininger was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan that found structure and dignity in the life of the city's streets.

The Lower East Side has embodied the hopes and struggles of generations of newcomers to America. Though many communities have shaped the neighborhood since the mid-19th century, it is the Jewish legacy that historically defined its identity — a community that continues to maintain its heritage today.



📷: Andreas Feininger, Jewish Store, Lower East Side, 1940s. Gelatin silver print. 11 3/8 × 9 3/8 in. © Estate of Andreas Feininger, Courtesy of Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC. 1998-88

05/21/2026

Designed by Philip Johnson, Kneses Tifereth Israel is a classic example of 1950s synagogue design — and the only synagogue Johnson ever designed. It reflects the growth in American Jewish life in the postwar era when more than 500 synagogues were built throughout the United States.

When Kneses Tifereth Israel opened in 1956, Philip Johnson designed the Torah ark and other furnishings including a number of bimah chairs of English oak. He turned to Ibram Lassaw, an Egyptian-born Jewish artist, to commission the bronze Hebrew letters adorning the ark, a suite of works for the bimah, Eternal Light, and a menorah.

In 2006, when the synagogue decided to renovate its sanctuary, the Lassaw and Johnson suite was acquired by the Jewish Museum. It is now on view in “Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum.”

05/19/2026

Join us for a live taping of "Person Place Thing," the interview podcast hosted by Randy Cohen, formerly "The Ethicist" at The New York Times Magazine.

Cohen sits down with James S. Snyder, Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director, to discuss Paul Klee's "Angelus Novus" (1920) — the intimate and revelatory drawing now on view for the first time in years

"Person Place Thing" invites guests to talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them.

📅 Wednesday, May 28
🕰️ 6:30 – 8 pm
The Jewish Museum, Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street
🎟️ Tickets: $24 General | $16 Students and Seniors | Free for Members
https://thejm.net/4nucNKg

This program has been funded by a generous donation endowment from the Saul and Harriet M. Rothkopf Family Foundation.

Attend a live taping of the podcast Person Place Thing, an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen (formerly “The Ethicist” at The New York Times Magazine), based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but something they care about. Guests ta...

05/18/2026

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05/17/2026

Marcia Resnick, "She scotch-taped her nose up before dates hoping it would stay that way"

Brooklyn-born photographer Marcia Resnick (1950–2025) was a conceptual artist who used photography to make Surrealist images. Part of a generation of artists who rejected what photography was supposed to be, she applied paint and graphite directly to images, added text, and treated humor as an artistic strategy rather than an afterthought.

Resnick created "Re-Visions" after a car accident in 1975 left her in the hospital, thinking about every event that had led her there. Reflecting on her life with equal parts poignancy and irony, she began sketching ideas and images that would become the series. Staged in her loft with a teenage model as her proxy, the photographs and text work together to explore female adolescence and the humor of the human condition.



Marcia Resnick, "She scotch-taped her nose up before dates hoping it would stay that way." 1978. Gelatin silver print. 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 in. 2009-32