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Exhibitions

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Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston

November 8, 2024 - March 30, 2025

This exhibition will bring together for the first time two trailblazing American artists from different generations, Trenton Doyle Hancock (b. 1974) and Philip Guston (1913-1980).

New York Jewish Film Festival 2005

January 12 - 27, 2005

Get a Jewish cinematic take on swimmers and subversives, immigrants and identity, motherhood and memories.

John Singer Sargent’s Mrs. Carl Meyer and Her Children

September 16, 2016 - February 5, 2017

John Singer Sargent’s magisterial painting, Mrs. Carl Meyer and her Children of 1896, depicts Adèle Meyer with her children Elsie Charlotte and Frank Cecil. This remarkable work of art is one of Sargent’s most beloved portraits. When it was first shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1897 it…

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.

Masters of American Comics

September 15, 2006 - January 28, 2007

Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, comic strips and comic books have been a tremendously influential form of mass media. Masters of American Comics brings together the work of fourteen artists, from Winsor McCay to Chris Ware, who have defined and expanded the possibilities of a vastly popular…

Take Me (I’m Yours)

September 16, 2016 - February 5, 2017

In this highly unconventional exhibition, visitors are encouraged to participate, touch, and even take home works of art by 42 international and intergenerational artists, many of whom are creating new and site-specific works for the exhibition.

Scenes from the Collection

November 2, 2019 - April 1, 2025

The galleries on the Third Floor of the Jewish Museum feature a rotating collection exhibition with nearly 450 works from antiquities to contemporary art.

After “The Wild”: Contemporary Art from The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection

March 24 - October 1, 2023

After “The Wild”: Contemporary Art from The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection highlights works by 47 intergenerational and internationally-based artists made between 1963 – 2023.

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Calendar

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Performance

September 17, 2016

Part of the exhibition Take Me (I’m Yours), James Lee Byars's Be Quiet (1980) will be performed in the exhibition galleries. The performer, wearing a long, black dress, stands in the center of the room. When she is approached by a visitor, she will slowly and silently hand them a…

Member Virtual Meet & Greet

May 28, 2024

Join us for an exclusive virtual Meet & Greet with James S. Snyder, Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director. Hear firsthand about the Museum's exciting present and future, and participate in a conversation that provides an opportunity for the Museum's new director to get to know and hear from the Museum's member…

Member Virtual Lecture

February 9, 2023

Jewish Museum members are cordially invited to attend a private virtual lecture on James Tissot’s astounding collection of biblical watercolors, led by Curator Stephen Brown. Learn how more than 350 of Tissot’s paintings entered the Museum’s collection and became the subject of a decades-long project to present them at an…

Meet and Greet James S. Snyder, Our New Director

January 28, 2024

Museum members at the Friend level and above are cordially invited to attend a special in-person 120th Anniversary program with our newly appointed Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director, James S. Snyder, on Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 11 am. Join us for breakfast and conversation about the Museum's present and future,…

Dialogue and Discourse

September 18, 2014

Panelists Liz Kotz, Associate Professor, University of California Riverside; James Meyer, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art; and Scott Rothkopf, Curator and Associate Director of Programs, Whitney Museum of American Art, all of whom have worked with Mel Bochner at various points in his career,…

Lecture

May 30, 2018

James L. Weinberg Distinguished Lecture Kenneth E. Silver, Professor of Art History, New York University, discusses Soutine’s dual role as both radical innovator and conservative practitioner, a fluctuating identity dependent on the critical needs and prejudices of the interwar Parisian art world in conjunction with Chaim Soutine: Flesh. Silver has…

Director’s Talk

February 5, 2024

This talk is the first in a series providing a forum for dialogue and reflection on the role of art and culture during these complex times. James S. Snyder, Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director, will be in conversation with award-winning author Ruby Namdar. About the Speakers: James S. Snyder began his…

The Liberating Lens

October 15, 2015

James L. Weinberg Distinguished Lecture In the mid-20th century, many Jews turned to photography not only as a way to earn a living, but also as a means of self-expression, of political activism, and of artistic creativity. In this lecture, Professor Deborah Dash Moore examines the liberating power of the…

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