The Jewish Museum is presenting Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Zackin: a small world — a video installation, from March 30 through August 26, 2012. The artists juxtapose home movies of their families, one African American and one Jewish American, to explore the commonalities of middle-class life across racial lines. 

The Jewish Museum has just put on display in its lobby a new work by Lawrence Weiner, NO TREE NO BRANCH (2011/12). 

Ellen Salpeter has been named the institution’s new Deputy Director for External Affairs, overseeing development, special events, and marketing and communications. 

The exhibition features 14 large-scale paintings from the contemporary American painter Kehinde Wiley’s newest series, The World Stage: Israel. The vibrant portraits of Israeli youths from diverse ethnic and religious affiliations are each embedded in a unique background influenced by Jewish ceremonial art.

Composed: Identity, Politics, Sex, a selection of photo-based works by seven contemporary artists, will be on view at The Jewish Museum in the final gallery of its permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, from December 23, 2011 through June 30, 2012.

The Jewish Museum will present An Artist Remembers: Hanukkah Lamps Selected by Maurice Sendak from December 2, 2011 through January 29, 2012. 

The Jewish Museum is presenting Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures, a video installation, from November 4, 2011 to March 25, 2012, in the Museum’s Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center. Jem Cohen chronicles a city that exudes noise and bustle, balanced with beauty and tranquility.

http://www.columbusmuseum.orgThe Jewish Museum in New York City and the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio are collaborating on an exhibition of nearly 150 vintage photographs. The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936 – 1951, a formidable survey of the group’s history, its artistic significance, and its cultural, social and political milieu, will premiere at The Jewish Museum from November 4, 2011 through March 25, 2012. 

The Board of Trustees of The Jewish Museum today announced that Claudia Gould has been named the institution’s new Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director.

The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats, the first major United States exhibition to pay tribute to award-winning author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983), whose beloved children’s books include Whistle for Willie (1964),

At the annual meeting of The Jewish Museum’s Board of Trustees on June 16, 2011, Robert A. Pruzan was elected Chairman, succeeding Joshua Nash. Mr. Pruzan became a trustee in 2003. 

Maya Zack: Living Room will be on view at The Jewish Museum from July 31 to October 23, 2011. In this installation, artist and filmmaker Maya Zack takes a Jewish family’s apartment in 1930s Berlin as inspiration for this room-sized work, using 3D technology and sound to explore the past and how it is remembered.