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Exhibitions

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Charlemagne Palestine’s Bear Mitzvah in Meshugahland

March 17 - August 6, 2017

Enter the colorful, fantastical world of visual artist, musician, composer, and performer Charlemagne Palestine with an immersive, site-specific installation of hundreds of teddy bears and other plush toys influenced by the artist’s Brooklyn Jewish roots.

Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak

April 15 - August 14, 2005

Through original drawings, sketches, costumes, and sets, this exhibition examines Maurice Sendak’s art, his Jewish identity, and his latest work, Brundibar – a picture book and opera created in collaboration with Tony Kushner.

Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Zackin: a small world…

March 30 - October 14, 2012

Juxtaposing home movies from each of two artists’ families—one African American and one Jewish American—this video focuses on the intersections of middle-class life across ethnic lines.

From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of William Steig

November 4, 2007 - March 16, 2008

William Steig was a brilliant cartoonist for The New Yorker and an award-winning, beloved author of children’s books, including Shrek! and Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. This exhibition delves into every phase of Steig’s prolific career, which spanned eight decades.

Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn

November 8, 1998 - March 7, 1999

Common Man, Mythic Vision : The Paintings of Ben Shahn focuses on the paintings of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) created between 1936 and 1965, and emphasizing the period of World War II and its aftermath. Shahn's public recognition and personal style coalesced in 1932 with the exhibition of his renowned series…

The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats

September 9, 2011 - January 29, 2012

This exhibition features over 80 original works by the award-winning author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day, the first modern full-color picture book to feature an African-American protagonist.

Elaine Reichek: A Postcolonial Kinderhood Revisited

August 23 - October 20, 2013

In 1993 the Jewish Museum commissioned Elaine Reichek to create an installation that explored her personal identity. A Postcolonial Kinderhood probed the fears and embarrassments—real or imagined—that still prevailed among many American Jews and is one of the earliest major works to confront the paradoxes of American Jewish identity. In…

From the Margins: Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis, 1945 – 1952

September 12, 2014 - February 1, 2015

Through select paintings by both artists, this exhibition offers a revealing parallel view of two key Abstract Expressionists. Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis, a woman and an African American, each experimented with approaches that joined abstraction and cultural specificity. Their work similarly brims with gesture, image, and incident, yet was…

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Calendar

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Bang on a Can Concert

December 5, 2024

…the players deciding are Brooklyn-based guitar ensemble Dither Quartet. This concert, co-presented with Bang on a Can is held in conjunction with the exhibition Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston (November 8, 2024 - March 30, 2025). Tickets: $22 General; $15 Students and Seniors;…

Birds of a Feather

February 9, 2025

…a Feather, fronted by Brooklyn’s Suzi Shelton and Little Miss Ann of Chicago. Hear catchy tunes spanning many genres including indie, folk, rock, and pop from their debut album Rock Together which expresses the joy of two long-time friends making music together. For the upcoming holiday of Tu B’Shevat (birthday…

The Pop Ups

March 1, 2020

…more. A collaboration between Brooklyn musicians Jason Rabinowitz and Jacob Stein, The Pop Ups have been setting the standard for children’s music since 2010. They just received their third Grammy nomination for Best Children’s Album with Giants of Science. Appetite for Construction received a Grammy nomination, a National Parenting Publications…

Little Miss Ann

February 5, 2023

…be joined by special guests—Brooklyn's award-winning family music artist and creator of livestream show “Sing with Suzi,” Suzi Shelton—as well as NYC rockin' kids musician and climate justice activist, Esther Crow. After the concert, come to the Floor 4 studio to enjoy our free monthly Drop-in Art Workshop for families.…

The Pop Ups' Night in the Museum

June 7, 2020

…EDT A collaboration between Brooklyn musicians Jason Rabinowitz and Jacob Stein, The Pop Ups have been setting the standard for children’s music since 2010. They just received their third Grammy nomination for Best Children’s Album with Giants of Science. Appetite for Construction received a Grammy nomination, a National Parenting Publications…

Elena Moon Park

September 18, 2022

…and producer living in Brooklyn, NY. She is a freelance violinist and multi-instrumentalist in NYC, specializing in contemporary classical and family music, and has performed on stages ranging from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to the Southbank Centre and the Melbourne International Arts Festival. She is also co-Artistic Director of…

Virtual Concert and Conversation

May 13, 2021

…joined in conversation with Brooklyn-based painter Amy Sillman, who had two triumphal exhibitions in New York last year - a show of her own work at Gladstone Gallery and one she curated for the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art. For decades, members of the Bang on a Can…

Virtual Unpacking the Book: Jewish Writers in Conversation

February 24, 2022

…Journal. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their two daughters. Talia Lavin is a writer who has had bylines in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, and more. Stephanie Butnick is deputy editor of Tablet…

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