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…

Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist

May 6 - September 18, 2016

Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) was one of the most influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet he is not a familiar figure outside of his native Brazil. He is best known for his iconic seaside pavements on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, and for his abstract, geometric garden designs.…

Anni Albers

May 28 - August 20, 2000

Anni Albers is considered the foremost textile artist of the twentieth century. She bravely broke from the tradition in which textiles reproduced naturalistic imagery or decorative ornament.

Max Liebermann: From Realism to Impressionism

March 10 - July 30, 2006

Approximately 45 paintings by Max Liebermann (1847–1935)—the majority of which have never been seen by an American audience—will highlight stylistic changes in Liebermann’s art, as he introduced modernism to Germany and became one of his country’s most renowned cultural figures.