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Visitors who are blind or have low vision are invited to join us for an in person descriptive tour exploring our current exhibition “The Sassoons” on March 22 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET.
All Access Programs are free of charge and require advance reservation: https://thejm.net/42gG40b
Visitors who are blind or have low vision are invited to join us for a descriptive tour exploring The Sassoons.
We are still recovering from Tuesday’s Purim Ball at the Plaza! Over 1,200 guests attended the festive dinner and After Party hosted by the Museum’s Young Patrons group. This year’s Purim Ball raised a record $3.2 million for the Museum and honored Brad S. Karp, Chairman, Paul, Weiss, and Bang on a Can, the multi-faceted performing arts organization. A special tribute to Claudia Gould, who is stepping down as the Museum’s director in June, was given by the Museum’s Board chairman Robert Pruzan.
When guests arrived, they were greeted by poodles, the unofficial mascot of Purim Ball. The historic Plaza was transformed by David Stark Design and Production, with decor inspired by our current exhibition “The Sassoons.” Guests were escorted to dinner with an electrifying performance by the Grammy-nominated musical collective Innov Gnawa. Dinner began with a surprise performance by Young People’s Chorus of New York City singing an original composition by Bang on a Can and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street closed the dinner program with a moving performance of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” Throughout the evening, guests were treated to tarot card readings by Larry & Raven: The ESP Couple, enjoyed the signature cocktail Pomegranate Rosemary Tito’s Fizz, made with Tito’s Handmade Vodka, and took their photos at the Smilebooth. Music was provided by DJ Timo Weiland.
We hope to see you at next year’s !
📸: 1. Claudia Gould. 2. Brad Karp. 3. Bang on a Can. 4 & 5. Jewish Museum Young Patrons. 6. Innov Gnawa. 7. DJ Timo Weiland. 8. The Terrace Room at the Plaza. 9 & 10. Decor. Photos by Ben Rosser and Brendon Cook © BFA
Discover the remarkable history of the Sassoon family in a two-part virtual course on March 21 and 28 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET, inspired by our current exhibition “The Sassoons.” Follow four generations from Iraq to India, China, and England through a rich selection of works collected by family members over time, including Hebrew manuscripts and rare Jewish ceremonial art; Chinese art and ivory carvings; and British landscape painting. Then take an in-depth look at the family’s relationship with artist John Singer Sargent, and his portraits of Jewish patrons as explored in the past exhibition “John Singer Sargent’s Mrs. Carl Meyer and Her Children.”
Ticket purchase includes both virtual sessions: https://thejm.net/426jK9z
Discover the remarkable history of the Sassoon family and their pioneering role in trade, art collecting, architectural patronage, and civic engagement from the early 19th century through World War II in this two-part virtual course inspired by the exhibition The Sassoons (March 3 – August 13, 2...
was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Born in 1879, he is best known for developing the theory of relativity.
This portrait of Einstein is part of the series "Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century" by Andy Warhol. The series includes portraits of Sarah Bernhardt, Gertrude Stein, Golda Meir, the Marx Brothers, Franz Kafka, George Gershwin, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Martin Buber, and Louis Brandeis.
🎨: , “Albert Einstein,” 1980, Screenprint on paper. © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc / Artists Rights Society (ARS). Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
This year's Purim Ball After Party is officially sold out! No tickets will be available at the door. If you have questions, please email [email protected].
For over three decades, Carrie Mae Weems has been working simultaneously in front of and behind the camera, making herself into an everywoman who acts as a witness and guide into the past.
In this work, the muse (as Weems refers to her alter-ego), with her back to the camera, leads the viewer through the Jewish Ghetto of Ancient Rome towards the sunlit Tempio Maggiore di Roma (the Great Synagogue). Weems’s background – a mix of African American, Native American, and Jewish ancestry – presents a complex framework for understanding her interrelated lines of inquiry into sites of historical trauma such as this one.
The Jewish Museum is thrilled to have added this work to the , along with other works by female artists. Learn more about this and other new acquisitions for : https://thejm.net/3Jge3gm
📸: , “The Jewish Ghetto - Ancient Rome,” 2006. Chromogenic print. The Jewish Museum, NY. Purchase: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund. © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Deganit Berest, born in 1949 in Petah Tikva, is an Israeli painter and photographer. She is a conceptual artist who employs processes of disassembly, projection, screening, and enlargement to turn the everyday into something wondrous. Berest has received numerous awards, including the Sandberg Prize in 1993, the Dizengoff Prize in 2007, and the Rappaport Prize for Established Israeli Artist in 2012.
🎨: , “After Dialectica and "Brownian Motion,” 1988, Oil on canvas.
On March 19, from 3:00-4:00 pm, join us for a special afternoon of storytelling with Victor Levenstein and his son, artist Matvey Levenstein. Victor Levenstein is the author of “Thirteen Nasty Little Snakes: The Case of Stalin's Assassins” detailing his arrest and time as a political prisoner in the Soviet Union. Learn more and purchase tickets:
Join us for a special afternoon of storytelling with Victor Levenstein and his son artist Matvey Levenstein. Victor Levenstein is the author of Thirteen Nasty Little Snakes: The Case of Stalin's Assassins detailing his arrest and time as a political prisoner in the Soviet Union.
An overcoat, with a trilby hat, sits on a suitcase in an attitude of attentive waiting. Below the right lapel is the Star of David. But the occupant is missing.
Artist Krzysztof Bednarski designed this poster for the film "Postcard from a Journey" (1983), directed by Waldemar Dziki. Set in Poland during World War II, the central character, a Jewish industrialist, anxiously anticipates the fate - deportation to the camps - that he feels must certainly overtake him. With this uncanny image, clearly inspired by the Belgium surrealist René Magritte, Bednarski suggests the layers of absence evoked in the film, which was based on the novel "Mr. Theodor Mundstock" (1963) by the Czech writer, Ladislav F**s.
🎨: , “Postcard from a Journey (Kartka z podrozy),” 1983, Lithograph.
Families! On March 19, from 10:00-11:00 am, virtually see global treasures across time from Iraq to India and China to England collected by four generations of a family in the exhibition, “The Sassoons”. Find inspiration in colorful paintings, whimsical sculpture, and decorative arts and design your own patterned treasure box with found materials to collect your own wonders.
Free with RSVP: https://thejm.net/41Witlk
See global treasures across time from Iraq to India and China to England in the exhibition, The Sassoons. Design your own patterned treasure box with found materials.
We are thrilled to announce that we’ve added two paintings by Alex Bradley Cohen to the .
According to Liz Munsell, the Museum’s Barnett and Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art, “Cohen’s paintings are windows into both the artist’s everyday life and his process as a painter. He lives and works in his hometown of Chicago, where his family and friends serve as his primary subjects.”
These are the first works by Cohen to enter the collection, enhancing the Museum’s ability to put forward a diversity of stories encompassing Jewish identity. Read more from Liz Munsell: https://thejm.net/3ZWq2qr
🎨: "Parents #4," 2022, Acrylic on canvas
🎨: "Parents #1," 2022, Acrylic on canvas
Images courtesy of Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
Participants with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their care partners are invited to explore “The Sassoons” through discussion and art making on March 15 from 2:00-3:30 pm.
This program will be offered in two forms: in-person at the Jewish Museum and over Zoom. Both the in-person and virtual groups will take place at the same time. Please indicate which group you would like to register for.
All Access Programs are free of charge and require advance reservation. RSVP: https://thejm.net/3YxyBqk
Participants with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their care partners are invited to explore The Sassoons through discussion and art making.
Today is and we are highlighting Rachel Sassoon Beer, whose portrait hangs in our current exhibition “The Sassoons.”
Discerning collectors, generous philanthropists, and consummate hostesses, the Sassoon women were seminal to the family’s integration into British society. Rachel Sassoon Beer (1858–1927) became the first woman in Britain to edit two newspapers, “The Sunday Times” and “The Observer,” and played a crucial role reporting on the Dreyfus affair, an infamous antisemitic political scandal in France at the turn of the twentieth century.
Soon after her wedding to Frederick Beer in 1887, the couple commissioned Henry Jones Thaddeus to paint pendant portraits. Rachel’s portrait, seen here, shows her in ethereal silk holding an ostrich feather. This portrait was later acquired by the poet Siegfried Sassoon, her nephew.
Learn more about the Sassoon women in this feature article in Hadassah Magazine: https://thejm.net/3ZupVCl
🎨: Henry Jones Thaddeus, “Rachel Sassoon Beer,” 1887, Oil on canvas. Private collection, London.
📸: H. Walter Barnett, “Rachel Sassoon Beer,” 1900–1903. London, National Portrait Gallery, Purchased, 1994.
We are saddened by the death of Jewish disability advocate Judith Heumann.
Heumann, who contracted polio as a toddler, broke down barriers for disabled children and educators in NYC schools, protested until federal legislation protecting people with disabilities was passed, and advised multiple presidential administrations on disability issues.
Learn more about this remarkable woman through this JTA News article: https://thejm.net/3J1qKfg
Get your masks and groggers ready, begins this evening at sundown!
Purim commemorates events that occurred during a period of Jewish history known as “the Babylonian exile,” in the 6th century BCE. Aided by her uncle Mordechai, Queen Esther, the Persian king's beautiful and courageous wife, thwarted a plot against the Jews devised by Haman, her husband’s chief minister and the villain of the Purim story. Rescued from Haman's evil scheme, the Jews of Persia rejoiced and sent gifts to one another. Centuries later, these events are celebrated every year with parties, feasting, gifts, costumes, and masks.
🎨: , “Purim Mask: Wicked Haman, Queen Esther, King Ahasuerus,” 1964, Papier mâché.
Since the winter can be a bit gray, we’re adding a pop of color to your timeline! Hang in there, spring is just around the corner.
🎨: , Study for "The Street,” c. 1938, Oil on canvas. Gift of Dr. Jack Allen and Shirley Kapland.
On March 12 visitors with intellectual or developmental disabilities and their families are invited to explore the exhibition “The Sassoons” through discussion and art making.
This program will have three options to join:
Ages 5 – 17, In-Person: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Ages 18 & up, In-Person: 2 – 4 pm
All ages, Virtual: 2 – 4 pm
Please indicate which group you would like to register for. RSVP: https://thejm.net/3Zetsom
Visitors with intellectual or developmental disabilities and their families are invited to explore the exhibition The Sassoons through discussion and art making. Workshops will have two times, 10:30 am and 2 pm.
Now open! Visit “The Sassoons,” on view at the Jewish Museum through August 13, 2023.
The exhibition highlights the Sassoon family’s pioneering role in trade, art collecting, architectural patronage, and civic engagement from the early 19th century through World War II through over 120 works—paintings, decorative arts, illuminated manuscripts, and Judaica—amassed by family members and borrowed from numerous private and public collections. Explore themes such as discrimination, diaspora, colonialism, global trade, and war that not only shaped the history of the family but continue to define our world today.
Plan your visit: https://thejm.net/3JaZRXm
📸: Photos by Matthew Carasella Photography
Today we’re highlighting this bull figurine for !
Made in the 13th century BCE, these types of figurines reflect the importance of human and animal representation in the Ancient World. During this time, trade was active between Greece, Cyprus, and the Levant, which explains the presence of the Mycenean bull at ancient sites in Israel. Objects like these may have been used in unofficial cults related to fertility.
🎨: “Bull Figurine,” Probably Israel, 13th century BCE, Clay: hand-formed, slipped, hand-burnished, and fired.
We're celebrating by highlighting some new additions to the . Today, we are featuring a gift given to us by artist Joanne Leonard who, over a career spanning nearly 60 years, has captured scenes of sincerity and pensiveness in both private and public spheres.
The group of 11 works beautifully represents a comprehensive cross section of her multidisciplinary practice, including photography, collage, and mixed media dimensional pieces, each emblematic of a genre she describes as “intimate documentary.”
Learn more about the gift: https://thejm.net/3IDHYyU
1. “Sonia, Seattle, Washington,” 1966, Gelatin silver print.
2. “Kids hugging, West Oakland, California,” c. 1963–1972, Gelatin silver print.
3. “Man with guitar, West Oakland, California,” c. 1963–1972, Gelatin silver print.
4. “Two can openers, kitchen counter, Pound Ridge, New York,” 1978, Gelatin silver print.
Let it snow, snow, snow! ❄️ New York City finally got some wintery weather last night. Stay warm today.
📸: Paul Himmel, “Falling Snow–Boy in Window, New York,” 1952, Gelatin silver print.
This work by R. B. Kitaj is a study for his painting "The Jewish School (Drawing a Golem)."
Kitaj wrote in 1995: "The Jewish School (Drawing a Golem)" is the first oil painting I made to attempt to cut through the vexing and, to me at least, fascinating questions and arguments swirling around the notion of Jewish art. During my years of discovery before I made the picture and in years of selective learning since it was painted, it never occurred to me to prove that there is such a thing as Jewish art, any more or less than one could "prove" anything much about any art at all. Very roughly speaking, I now feel that there has been no tradition of Jewish art (in the discernible sense of Islamic or Japanese or Egyptian art for instance). And so, the Jewishness of a painting such as this one may have to depend on various diasporist 'Jewish' attentions I sought to lavish upon it."
🎨: R. B. Kitaj, “Study for the Jewish School (Joe Singer as a Boy),” 1980, Pastel and charcoal on paper.
Families! Catch the pop grooves and high energy of the Grammy-nominated band The Pop Ups as they share a one-of-a-kind performance on Sunday, March 5 from 10:30-11:30 am. Experience drawing with music, hilarious puppets, and an epic costume party just in time for !
After the concert, enjoy our free monthly Drop-in Art Workshop for families from 11:30 am-3:00 pm.
Children 18 and under are free. Tickets include Museum Admission. Learn more: https://thejm.net/3XZuumA
Catch the pop grooves of the Grammy-nominated band The Pop Ups. Experience drawing with music, hilarious puppets, and an epic costume party just in time for Purim!
In this episode of , hear from curator Stephen Brown as he discusses Deborah Kass’s 1992 screenprint “Six Blue Barbras (The Jewish Jackie Series),” currently on view in the installation “Personas: Artists on Artists.”
In her Warhol Project (1992-2000), Deborah Kass appropriated Andy Warhol's techniques, colors, and compositions. This work retroactively introduces the legendary singer and actress Barbra Streisand to the pantheon of female celebrities portrayed by Warhol in the early 1960s. Kass focuses on the tension between image and identity, high art and mass culture, while paying homage to a contemporary cultural icon.
In December 2022, Amy Shimshon-Santo found out that a mizrah made by her great-great-grandfather Israel Dov Rosenbaum was in the Jewish Museum collection and that it was somehow linked to artist Kehinde Wiley
After some digging, she discovered Wiley used Rosenbaum’s mizrah as the background for his portrait of a young Jewish Israeli man of Ethiopian descent, Alios Itzhak, also in the Jewish Museum collection.
“As a Jewish and Black family, both stories — Rosenbaum's Mizrah and Wiley's Alios Itzhak —matter to us in myriad ways,” said Shimshon-Santo. “The conversation between the two works connect their visions of beauty and belonging in the diaspora with anti-racist values and affirmation of Blackness."
Read Shimshon-Santo’s emotional story that links two artworks to Jewish and Black lives, legacies, and futures: https://thejm.net/3YWSHv8
Images:
1. Israel Dov Rosenbaum, Mizrah, 1877 (date of inscription). Gift of Helen W. Finkel in memory of Israel Dov Rosenbaum, Bessie Rosenbaum Finkel, and Sidney Finkel.
2. Kehinde Wiley, “Alios Itzhak (The World Stage: Israel),” 2011. © Kehinde Wiley.
3. Israel Dov Rosenbaum (at left) with Sidney Finkel (Amy’s grandfather) sitting on the column (at right). Photograph taken in Brody, Austro-Hungarian Empire, at the turn of the century.
4. Amy Shimshon-Santo, right, with her children Reva and Avila Santo. Photo taken in 2022 in Los Angeles.
As a New York City landmark, the Jewish Museum is filled with history from the inside, and out! The building, commissioned by Felix and Frieda Warburg to be their family home, was completed in 1908 by architect Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert (C.P.H. Gilbert). The Museum’s Indiana limestone facade and intricate details were completed in Gilbert’s popular François I style — an ornate melding of French form and Italian ornamentation.
Since its original construction, the Jewish Museum has undergone a series of building projects, including two expansions: one in 1963, and a second in 1993. The Museum plays a proactive role in the care and preservation of its home; every few years, the facade is thoroughly examined to ensure that the building is in good condition.
Plan your visit to the Jewish Museum to admire the building’s facade! While you’re here, explore our collection exhibition “Scenes from the Collection.” Tickets: https://thejm.net/3KuphQX
1-2. Warburg Mansion exterior during 1992 expansion by Tischman Construction.
3-5. List renovation. Photo by Virginia F. Stern.
Visitors who are blind or have low vision are invited to join us in-person on February 22 from 2:00-4:00 pm for a descriptive tour exploring “Scenes from the Collection,” the Jewish Museum’s collection exhibition.
All Access Programs are free of charge. RSVP: https://thejm.net/3lQaMMV
Visitors who are blind or have low vision are invited to join us for a descriptive tour exploring Scenes from the Collection, the Jewish Museum’s collection exhibition.
This is an extraordinary Torah curtain because of its size, workmanship, and unusual iconography.
The dedicatory inscription at bottom reads, 'He shall carry away a blessing from the Lord' (Psalms 24:5; chronogram for the year 1680/81), the work of…Simhah, wife of… Menahem Levi Meshullami.
The dedication reaffirms the significant role played by Italian Jewish women in the creation of synagogue textiles, even among very wealthy and prominent families such as the Meshullami, one of the first Jewish families to settle in Venice.
What is unusual about this curtain is the detailed representation of Jerusalem, unique in Torah curtain iconography, but common on another type of seventeenth-century Italian Judaica: decorated ketubbot, or marriage contracts. The representations of Jerusalem were inspired by the decorations of ketubbot, creating an iconographic link between two forms of Judaica prominent in the lives of women.
🎨: Simhah, Wife of Menahem Levi Meshullami, “Torah Ark Curtain,” 1680/81 (date of inscription), Silk: embroidered with silk and metallic thread; metallic fringe.
Born in Warsaw, Poland, artist Elie Nadelman went to Paris at the age of 22, choosing sculpture as his primary medium after seeing classical works and the masterpieces of Auguste Rodin. He became part of Leo and Gertrude Stein's artistic circle, meeting modern artists such as Pablo Picasso as well as critics, gallery owners, and collectors. At the beginning of World War I, Nadelman came to America, where his classical heads, such as this marble one from the , were very popular.
🎨: , “Classical Head,” c. 1910, Marble.
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We are saddened by the passing of sculptor and printmaker Lee Bontecou (1931-2022). Bontecou rose to prominence in the 1960s burgeoning New York scene. She was one of four women artists included in The Museum of Modern Art’s survey “Americans 1963.” In the gallery dedicated to Bontecou, she contributed a selection of ominous ocular reliefs made from cast-off industrial materials, exemplified by the work currently on view in our exhibition “New York: 1962-1964.” 🎨: #LeeBontecou, “Untitled,” 1959, Welded steel, canvas, black fabric, soot, and wire. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold H. Maremont (2.1960) © Lee Bontecou. #NY6264
Take a break and create! Check out our latest Art Break: Watch + Create with the Jewish Museum. Together let’s explore line, pattern, and color by creating an abstract collage inspired by the artist Frank Stella. Visit the Jewish Museum to see Stella’s work currently on view in the exhibition “New York: 1962-1964.” Materials: Colored paper Scissors Glue We’d love to see what you create! Post your creations using #artbreak and tag @thejewishmuseum. We’ll share your art work! #NY6264 #FrankStella #diy
Families! On November 13 from 10:30-11:30 am groove to the captivating sounds of Divinity Roxx, who combines virtuosic bass playing with an eclectic mash-up of hip-hop, rock, and funk. The Grammy-nominated musician, composer, and Musical Director for the all-female band on tour for Beyoncé, has appeared on SNL, Good Morning America, and performed at the White House with President Barack Obama. After the concert, experiment with painting tools in a Drop-In Art Workshop and create an abstract piece inspired by works in the exhibition “New York: 1962-1964.” Children are FREE for the concert. Tickets include Museum admission, reserve adult and child tickets: https://thejm.net/3t0oT2k
In this short video, curator Kristina Parsons talks about Bob Thompson’s painting “The Golden Ass,” currently on view in “New York: 1962-1964.” Thompson made this painting during the height of the struggle for civil rights in the United States. This intervention into European high art was likely shaped by the racial politics Thompson experienced growing up in deeply segregated Louisville, Kentucky. In 1963, Thompson moved into a loft on Rivington Street in downtown Manhattan. He became one of the most influential artists in the city and his loft was an important site for Black cultural producers such as the jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins and the poet and publisher LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka). #NY6264 🎨: #BobThompson, “The Golden Ass,” 1963, Oil on canvas. Signed Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York."
Time for an Art Break! Next in our new series, Art Break: Watch + Create with the Jewish Museum, get inspired by Andy Warhol’s film “Empire” on view in the exhibition “New York: 1962-1964.” Create a series of mixed media drawings based on photographs taken at different times of the day in your neighborhood with artist and educator Jeff Hopkins. We’d love to see what you create! Post your creations using #artbreak and tag @thejewishmuseum. We’ll share your art work! Materials: Camera/Camera Phone Printer Paper Crayons #NY6264 #AndyWarhol
You’ve seen the photos, now check out this groovy video of our exhibition “New York: 1962-1964.” Works by iconic artists such as Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Yayoi Kusama, Norman Lewis, Roy Lichtenstein, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Faith Ringgold, James Rosenquist, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, George Segal, Bob Thompson, and Andy Warhol, among others, all made or seen in New York between 1962-1964, make up this exhibition that the The New Yorker called “spectacular.” We hope you dig it! Plan your visit: https://thejm.net/3Td1AxA #NY6264
We are excited to launch “Art Break: Watch + Create with the Jewish Museum,” a new online series of short art-making videos that will inspire creativity for all ages! Our first short focuses on the #Sukkot holiday. Honor nature with creative reuse of materials in the world around you. View artwork in the #JewishMuseumCollection by Allan Wexler and sculpt your own sukkah with found materials. #artbreak
Faith Ringgold was born #onthisday in 1930 in Harlem. She is a lifelong activist in the fights for both racial and gender equality. Her poignant work speaks to her experience as a Black woman and has in recent years garnered the recognition she was denied earlier in her career. Ringgold created one of her most ambitious bodies of work, the American People series, in dialogue with the civil rights movement. The series presents a comprehensive view of American society during the struggle for civil rights, including scenes representing complex aspects of the movement that were often overlooked or ignored. This painting, “The Civil Rights Triangle,” shows Black and white figures arranged in a triangle with a white person at the top. In addition to forming an image of interracial cooperation, the figures and their placement suggest that the civil rights movement depended upon approval from white Americans, limiting its success in crucial respects. Hear the full audio excerpt of Ringgold speaking about this painting on our digital guide on @BloombergConnects, the free arts and culture app: https://thejm.net/3rDo5Qt #BloombergConnects See this painting in our current exhibition “New York: 1962-1964,” on view through January 8, 2023. #NY6264 🎨: #FaithRinggold, American People #4: “The Civil Rights Triangle,” 1963, Oil on canvas. Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland. Photo: Ron Amstutz. © 2022 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy ACA Galleries, New York.
Artist Fred Terna experienced and bore witness to the creativity and trauma that marked the experiences of Jews who secretly made art in the camp-ghetto Theresienstadt during World War II. In this video hear from Fred and his son, artist and photographer Daniel Terna, who explores and pays tribute to his father's life and legacy. We want to thank both artists for sharing their stories in honor of Fred’s 99th birthday on October 8th. Part of our Artists’ Voices series, this video and others can be found on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. Download: https://thejm.net/3SCxBPx Video by SandenWolff.
In this video, Claudia Nahson, Morris & Eva Feld Senior Curator at the Jewish Museum, shares the hidden meanings of a unique charm bracelet in the #JewishMuseumCollection assembled by Holocaust survivor Greta Perelman (1904-1975) in Theresienstadt, a camp-ghetto in the former Czechoslovakia that housed prisoners between 1941 and 1945. Over 140,000 Jews were deported there by the Nazis, including many artists and writers who struggled to maintain a vibrant cultural life. Despite horrific conditions, Perlman was able to gather the 20 charms and badges assembled into her bracelet, each steeped in personal memories. Learn how art can be a source of creative and spiritual resistance, even in the darkest times. Part of our Object Lesson series, this video and others can be found on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. Download: https://thejm.net/3RzZMgS. Video by SandenWolff.
Let’s create some art on this third night of Hanukkah! Led by illustrator and story telling Jeff Hopkins, draw a Hanukkah-themed comic, investigate lamps in the Jewish Museum Collection, and help an animated menorah learn about the Maccabees. Access the full video here: https://youtu.be/fi3RDZmzdNE
The Jewish Museum presents “Looting, Loss, and Recovery,” a two-part, virtual symposium where participants will explore a range of topics related to the exhibition “Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art.” Part one will premiere on the Jewish Museum's YouTube channel on December 6 from 5:00 - 7:30 pm ET and will feature historians Rafael Cardoso, Lisa Moses Leff, Timothy Snyder, and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, as well as the co-curators of the exhibition, Darsie Alexander and Sam Sackeroff. Viewers are encouraged to pose questions for the speakers in the chat during the premiere. Videos will continue to be available for future viewing. On Thursday, December 9th at 6:30pm ET join us on Zoom for part two of the symposium, a live virtual conversation moderated by the exhibition curators in which audience questions will be addressed. Click the link for more information and to register for this FREE virtual symposium: https://thejm.net/3ELcp2K Lead benefactor support for “Looting, Loss, and Recovery: A Virtual Symposium” is made possible by The David Berg Foundation. Additional support is provided by other generous donors.
Premiering Friday, November 26, 2021, at 10 am EST, jump to the roots-reggae-pop tunes of Josh and the Jamtones. Celebrate Hanukkah with re-imagined classics such as "O Hanukkah," and songs with a modern twist including "Let Your Light Shine Bright." Josh will be joined by special guests, including Joanie Leeds, highlighted in this video teaser! Free with RSVP at https://thejm.net/3l0NDnB, YouTube video premiere link sent with confirmation.
Watch Joyce Hom, ASL Programs Coordinator, introduce our upcoming ASL exhibition tour of "Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art" on November 21, 2021. "Hello! It’s been a long time since we’ve seen you last summer and I hope you are doing well! The Jewish Museum will have an upcoming ASL tour, which will be held on Zoom. It will be on Sunday, November 21st, from 2pm - 3 pm, EDT. In this program we will explore the exhibition 'Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art.' The tour will be led by Alexandria Wailes. The Program is free, but please register and we will send you the Zoom link. You can contact us by email; our email address is: [email protected]. I hope to see you there, Bye!" Visit this link for more info: https://thejm.net/31w859b
Treasured. Stolen. Reclaimed. "Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art" is on view at the Jewish Museum through January 9, 2022: https://thejm.net/2ZY2Luj
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