Talks & Performances

Gallery Talk: Color, the Collection, and Anish Kapoor

A Closer Look

Jan. 23, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
3rd Floor Exhibition Galleries
Program Tickets

This educator-led gallery talk highlighting works from the Jewish Museum’s newly installed collection galleries and Anish Kapoor: Early Works, focuses on the evolution of color as a central characteristic of abstraction.. Beginning with Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s, this tour considers how artists use the complex relationship between color and form across both painting and sculptural installations.

Tickets: Free with Museum Admission; Advance RSVP Required.

 

 

Room with 6 sculptures on the floor, 4 of which are blue, one is red, and the other is yellow. Some are large and spherical and others are smaller with concentric square designs.

Anish Kapoor, "Part of the Red", 1981, mixed media, pigment, 28.3 × 118.1 × 157.5 in. (72 × 300 × 400 cm). Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands. © Anish Kapoor. All Rights Reserved, DACS, London/ ARS, NY 2025