Exhibitions

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Arnold Newman

October 3, 2004 - January 16, 2005

Training his lens on the most illustrious cultural and intellectual figures of the twentieth century, Arnold Newman forged a new tradition of portrait photography. This exhibition of 21 portraits includes Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe, Marc Chagall, Louise Nevelson, Leonard Bernstein, and David Ben-Gurion.

Marc Chagall:  Early Works from Russian Collections

April 29 - October 14, 2001

Chagall’s early years in Russia—from 1907 to 1922—provide the key to his long and prolific career.

Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922

September 14, 2018 - January 6, 2019

Through some 160 works, this exhibition presents the artistic output of Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, and others, exploring a little-known chapter in the history of modernity and the Russian avant-garde.

Assignment: Rescue, The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee

November 23, 1997 - March 29, 1998

A dramatic installation recounts the daring mission of Varian Fry, who was responsible for rescuing some 2,500 Jews and opponents of the Nazis, including such great figures as Marc Chagall, Hannah Arendt, Max Ernst, and Jacques Lipchitz.

Chagall: Love, War, and Exile

September 15, 2013 - February 2, 2014

…States, artwork by Marc Chagall from the 1930s and 1940s is gathered to reveal a lesser-known side of the artist. Beginning with the richly evocative paintings of his years in France, the exhibition illuminates an artist deeply responsive to the suffering inflicted by war and to his own exile and…

Focus on the Soul: The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi

February 6 - April 11, 2004

Lotte Jacobi’s substantial contribution to the history of photography is revealed in this exhibition of over ninety vintage prints, including many of Jacobi’s renowned portraits.

Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949

November 9, 2008 - March 22, 2009

Through paintings, costume and set designs, posters, photographs, film clips and theater ephemera this exhibition brings to light an exhilarating but fleeting moment in the cultural history of the Soviet Union when innovative visual artists joined forces with avant-garde playwrights, actors, and theatrical producers.

Paris in New York: French Jewish Artists in Private Collections

March 5 - June 25, 2000

From about 1907 to shortly after World War I, these Jewish painters and sculptors, predominantly from Eastern Europe, experimented with the stylistic innovations of the avant-garde and the Post-Impressionists while working in Paris.

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.