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Exhibitions

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Modigliani: Beyond the Myth

May 21 - September 19, 2004

The Jewish Museum presents the first major exhibition of Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) in New York since his 1951 retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art.

Adolph Gottlieb: A Survey Exhibition

October 11, 2002 - March 2, 2003

Adolph Gottlieb, like most Abstract Expressionists, endeavored to make his paintings a reflection of his unconscious. This exhibition explores his visual language and engagement with themes of identity.

Word Symbol Space

August 11 - October 7, 2012

Six post-1970 works from the Museum’s collection respond to mid-twentieth-century modernism. Each blends the language of abstraction with words and symbols carrying specific personal, historical, and cultural meanings

Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism

September 12, 2010 - January 30, 2011

This exhibition explores the origins and impact of feminism on contemporary painting from the 1960s to now. Eva Hesse, Joan Snyder, Deborah Kass, and many other artists forged new avenues for painting by expanding its subjects and inventing new techniques in abstraction, collage, and realism.

Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television

May 1 - September 27, 2015

…television—many of them young, Jewish, and aesthetically adventurous—had adopted modernism as a source of inspiration. Revolution of the Eye looks at how the dynamic new medium, in its risk-taking and aesthetic experimentation, paralleled and embraced cutting-edge art and design.

The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951

November 4, 2011 - March 25, 2012

The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city life from the end of the Great Depression to the start of the Cold War. Featuring more than 140 works by some of the most noted 20th-century photographers, including…

Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art

October 18, 2019 - February 9, 2020

The first exhibition to explore the remarkable career of Edith Halpert, the trailblazing art dealer whose influence, eye, and passion for American art championed the work of Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ben Shahn, and Charles Sheeler.

Masterpieces & Curiosities: Memphis Does Hanukkah

September 16, 2016 - February 12, 2017

This edition of the Masterpieces & Curiosities series focuses on designer and artist Peter Shire’s Menorah #7 (1986), and presents an opportunity to visually sketch the connection between the Los Angeles native’s history to the history and resonance of Memphis design. Elaborating these two stories opens up a larger and…

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Gallery Talks

September 9, 2016

Explore how Burle Marx’s work was inspired by his Jewish and Catholic background, his interest in indigenous Brazilian traditions, and his reverence for nature in this talk led by Chris Gartrell, Senior Coordinator of Adult Programs, in conjunction with the exhibition Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist.

This Is How We Do It: Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art

November 12, 2019

Associate Curator Rebecca Shaykin shares her research on the life of pioneering art gallerist Edith Halpert who, as the first significant female gallerist in the United States, helped launch the careers of many icons of American modernism including Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ben Shahn, and Charles Sheeler.

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Gallery Talk

November 10, 2017

Modigliani often introduced himself with the salutation “I am Jewish.” Investigating the intersection of psychology, ethnicity, formal analysis, and modernism in the artist’s work, this talk, led by Nelly Silagy Benedek, Senior Director of Education, considers the relationship of Amedeo Modigliani’s art to his Jewish identity.