Ilit Azoulay: Mere Things

September 13, 2024 - January 5, 2025

The first solo U.S. museum exhibition dedicated to the work of Ilit Azoulay.

New York Jewish Film Festival 1995

January 14 - 26, 1995

The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center present Beyond Perestroika: Jews and History in the Global Village.

The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River by Peter Forgács and The Labyrinth Project

March 15 - August 2, 2009

This immersive installation interweaves the historical narratives of Eastern European Jews and Germans fleeing in opposite directions along the Danube River, in an effort to escape the horrors of World War II—what Hungarian filmmaker and scholar Péter Forgács calls “the incomparable duet of the German-Jewish exodus.”

Arnold Dreyblatt: The Re-Collection Mechanism

September 9, 2001 - February 10, 2002

This installation is a container of a vast and mysterious series of spoken and projected words that recall Central and Eastern European lives in 1933.

Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey

June 11, 1993 - February 12, 2017

The acclaimed permanent exhibition tells the unfolding story of Jewish culture and identity through works of art, archaeology, ceremonial objects, photographs, video and interactive media.

Sights and Sounds: Poland

October 31 - November 25, 2014

Sights and Sounds: Poland features new work by the Bouillon Group, Marion von Osten, Anna Baumgart, and Karolina Breguła, selected by Joanna Warsza.

Sights and Sounds: Brazil

January 31 - February 27, 2014

Sights and Sounds: Brazil features new work by Regina Parra, Rodrigo Cass, Cristiano Lenhardt, and Tamar Guimarães, selected by Luiza Proença.

Theaters of Memory: Art and the Holocaust

November 9, 2008 - February 1, 2009

…works respond to the drama of incomprehensibility and traumatic historical memories. The eight artists are presented in three galleries and include works by George Segal, Tadeusz Kantor, and Matthew Buckingham.

Contemporary Art/Recent Acquisitions

April 11 - July 27, 2003

Featuring works acquired within the past two years and created since 1970, the exhibition highlights video, installation art and photography alongside drawing, painting, and sculpture.

New York Jewish Film Festival 2004

January 14 - 29, 2004

Join us for 13 great days of illumination and inspiration at the 2004 New York Jewish Film Festival.

Doug and Mike Starn: Ramparts Café

September 9, 2001 - February 10, 2002

Created to commemorate the three-thousandth anniversary of Jerusalem in 1995, Ramparts Café is a meditation on the ancient and modern aspects of the city.

Sights and Sounds: Angola

May 29 - June 26, 2014

Sights and Sounds: Angola features new work by Binelde Hyrcan, Paulo Azevedo, Angel Ihosvanny Cisneros Felicidade, and Iris Buchholz Chocolate, selected by Suzana Souza.

Sights and Sounds: Singapore

September 29 - October 30, 2014

Sights and Sounds: Singapore features new work by Ho Tzu Nyen, Chulyarnnon Siriphol, Mahardika Yudha, and Charles Lim, selected by Patrick D. Flores.

Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings: Chantal Joffe

May 1 - October 25, 2015

Hannah, Gertrude, Alice, Betty, Nadine, Golda, Susan, Claude, Nancy, Grace, Diane….. is a series of forty portraits by London-based painter Chantal Joffe, which will hang salon-style throughout the lobby of the Jewish Museum.

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.

Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered

March 16 - August 3, 2008

This exhibition of Andy Warhol’s ten “Jewish genius” paintings from 1980, presented 28 years after their initial showing at the Jewish Museum, depicts renowned luminaries of Jewish culture: Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, George Gershwin, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Golda Meir, and Gertrude Stein.…

Sights and Sounds: Romania

February 28 - March 27, 2014

Sights and Sounds: Romania features new work by Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan, Irina Botea, Pavel Brăila, and Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor, selected by Daria Ghiu.

As it were ... So to speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom

March 5 - August 4, 2013

Inspired by Talmudic discourse that takes place across time and space, artist Barbara Bloom mines the collections to create tableaux that evoke dialogues between imagined historical guests.

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

Masterpieces & Curiosities: Diane Arbus’s Jewish Giant

April 11 - August 3, 2014

In 1959 the photographer Diane Arbus (1923–71) visited Hubert’s Dime Museum and Flea Circus, a Times Square basement phantasmagoria. One of its main attractions was Eddie Carmel, a man who supposedly stood over nine feet tall, billed as “The World’s Tallest Man.” In April 1970, a year before her death,…

Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber and Gottlieb

March 14 - August 1, 2010

In 1951, renowned architect Percival Goodman commissioned Abstract Expressionist artists Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, and Herbert Ferber to create contemporary works of art for the modern synagogue in Millburn, New Jersey, that he designed. The exhibition features the three site-specific works by these artists, as well as studies, in-progress photographs,…

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.

Maya Zack: Living Room

July 31 - October 30, 2011

Maya Zack’s installation invokes a Jewish family’s apartment in 1930s Berlin via computer-generated images viewed through 3D glasses. A sound component based on the artist’s interviews with the man who fled that home accompanies the piece.

Zoya Cherkassky: 7 October 2023

December 15, 2023 - March 18, 2024

In these recent drawings, Zoya Cherkassky addresses the harrowing events of October 7, 2023.

Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé

October 13, 2023 - February 18, 2024

The first museum exhibition honoring the visionary Jewish entrepreneur Gaby Aghion (1921-2014) and her legacy as the founder of the French fashion house Chloé.

New York Jewish Film Festival 1992

January 18 - 26, 1992

The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center present Reemergence: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe, a new International Film Festival.

Object of Desire: Yael Kanarek’s World of Awe

October 30, 2007 - February 24, 2008

Yael Kanarek presents digital prints and online art from the third chapter of her World of Awe integrated media project. Focusing on languages, alphabets, and Near Eastern themes, she weaves English, Arabic, and Hebrew into rich narratives and dazzling visuals.

Dani Gal: As from Afar

September 12, 2014 - February 1, 2015

The Jewish Museum presents the United States premiere of As from Afar, a short video installation by Israeli-born artist Dani Gal. As from Afar explores the relationship between Simon Wiesenthal, the Jewish Holocaust survivor who devoted his life to hunting Nazis, and Albert Speer, Hitler’s chief architect and armaments minister.

We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz

October 1, 2020 - February 14, 2021

This exhibition, organized by artist Jonathan Horowitz, brings together more than 70 voices, ranging from an 18th century portraitist to contemporary artists commissioned for this exhibition, to draw connections between historical oppression and the cultural and political challenges we confront in the world today.

Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art

August 20, 2021 - January 9, 2022

This exhibition traces the fascinating timelines of individual objects as they passed through hands and sites before, during, and after World War II, bringing forward their myriad stories.

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…

Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?

December 10, 2000 - March 25, 2001

Salomon combines painting with text and musical cues to tell a compelling autobiographical coming-of-age story set during World War II amid increasing Nazi oppression.

The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film

September 25, 2015 - February 7, 2016

From early vanguard constructivist works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky, to the modernist images of Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson, Soviet photographers played a pivotal role in the history of photography. Covering the period from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution through the 1930s, this exhibition explores how early modernist photography…

Voice, Image, Gesture: Selections from the Jewish Museum’s Collection, 1945 – 2000

March 25 - August 5, 2001

Selections from the Museum’s broadcast media, fine arts, and ceremonial arts collections reflect a diversity of perspectives on Jewish history and contemporary culture.

New York Jewish Film Festival 2021

January 13 - 26, 2021

The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center are delighted to continue their partnership to bring you the 2021 New York Jewish Film Festival, presenting films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience. The NYJFF is among the oldest and most influential Jewish film festivals worldwide. In 2021,…