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Exhibitions

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Charlemagne Palestine’s Bear Mitzvah in Meshugahland

March 17 - August 6, 2017

Enter the colorful, fantastical world of visual artist, musician, composer, and performer Charlemagne Palestine with an immersive, site-specific installation of hundreds of teddy bears and other plush toys influenced by the artist’s Brooklyn Jewish roots.

Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak

April 15 - August 14, 2005

Through original drawings, sketches, costumes, and sets, this exhibition examines Maurice Sendak’s art, his Jewish identity, and his latest work, Brundibar – a picture book and opera created in collaboration with Tony Kushner.

Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Zackin: a small world…

March 30 - October 14, 2012

Juxtaposing home movies from each of two artists’ families—one African American and one Jewish American—this video focuses on the intersections of middle-class life across ethnic lines.

From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of William Steig

November 4, 2007 - March 16, 2008

William Steig was a brilliant cartoonist for The New Yorker and an award-winning, beloved author of children’s books, including Shrek! and Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. This exhibition delves into every phase of Steig’s prolific career, which spanned eight decades.

Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn

November 8, 1998 - March 7, 1999

Common Man, Mythic Vision : The Paintings of Ben Shahn focuses on the paintings of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) created between 1936 and 1965, and emphasizing the period of World War II and its aftermath. Shahn's public recognition and personal style coalesced in 1932 with the exhibition of his renowned series…

The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats

September 9, 2011 - January 29, 2012

This exhibition features over 80 original works by the award-winning author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day, the first modern full-color picture book to feature an African-American protagonist.

Elaine Reichek: A Postcolonial Kinderhood Revisited

August 23 - October 20, 2013

In 1993 the Jewish Museum commissioned Elaine Reichek to create an installation that explored her personal identity. A Postcolonial Kinderhood probed the fears and embarrassments—real or imagined—that still prevailed among many American Jews and is one of the earliest major works to confront the paradoxes of American Jewish identity. In…

From the Margins: Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis, 1945 – 1952

September 12, 2014 - February 1, 2015

Through select paintings by both artists, this exhibition offers a revealing parallel view of two key Abstract Expressionists. Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis, a woman and an African American, each experimented with approaches that joined abstraction and cultural specificity. Their work similarly brims with gesture, image, and incident, yet was…

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Writers & Artists Respond

October 10, 2013

Artist Elaine Reichek discusses her exhibition A Postcolonial Kinderhood Revisited, which makes use of domestic furniture and the artist’s hand-embroidered samplers to evoke and examine her memories of her childhood home in Brooklyn.

A Cantor's Tale

January 16, 2006

…that fermented in postwar Brooklyn. With missionary zeal, Mendelson teaches a new generation of hazzanim - men and women - the art of Jewish liturgical music. The film features commentary by Alan Dershowitz, Jackie Mason, and Metropolitan Opera tenor Neil Shicoff. Klezmatics composer Frank London provides the original score.

Seltzer Works

January 16, 2011

In the early 1900s, thousands of seltzer deliverymen shlepped heavy glass bottles full of fizzy water to millions of thirsty customers. In this short documentary, the last bottler in Brooklyn fends off the supermarket seltzer take-over and honors the drink’s place in history.

Kol Nidre #3

January 11, 2017

Images from Brooklyn-based artist Archie Rand’s acclaimed book The 613, an illustrated reimagining of the 613 Jewish commandments that earned praise from the likes of Art Spiegelman and Ang Lee, are recreated in this charming animated short that features music by Jeremiah Lockwood. Screening with Doing Jewish: A Story from…

Ahead of Time

January 14, 2010

Born in Brooklyn in 1911, Ruth Gruber had an extraordinary career as a foreign correspondent and photojournalist spanning seven decades. The first journalist to enter the Soviet Arctic (in 1935), she escorted Holocaust refugees to America in ’44, covered the Nuremberg trials in ’46, and reported on the plight of…

Brownsville Black and White

January 20, 2002

…documentary follows 60 years of Black/Jewish relations in Brownsville, Brooklyn—known first as a racially integrated community unified by shared liberal politics, and then as the setting of a watershed schism between blacks and Jews in the late 1960s. Brownsville residents and former residents provide eloquent testimony to the changes the…

Joanie Leeds & The Nightlights

December 20, 2015

Ages 3-8 Joanie Leeds & The Nightlights bring kids to their feet with their interactive, high energy performances. From pop-rock to gospel to country stylings, enjoy Brooklyn-based kindie rocker Leeds’ unique and playful sound with hits from her latest releases Good Egg and Meshugana.

Adult Studio Workshop

December 4, 2016

…is currently based in Brooklyn, NY and holds a Master's degree in architecture from the University of Michigan. Adili has been an artist in residence at the Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts, Smack Mellon, the MacDowell Colony, Lower East Side Printshop, and Women’s Studio Workshop. She received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation…

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