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…

Joan Snyder: A Painting Survey, 1969-2005

August 12 - October 23, 2005

Over 30 of Joan Snyder’s major works are presented in the most comprehensive museum survey of this influential artist’s paintings to date. This exhibition incorporates groundbreaking 1970s “stroke paintings” and subsequent works expressing Snyder’s political and social concerns and personal associations.

Collection Tableaux

November 23, 2012 - February 3, 2013

Contemporary artists Beth Lipman, Izhar Patkin, and Studio Armadillo, complemented by early twentieth-century painter Isidor Kaufmann, inspire contemplation on the role of tables as gathering places for ritual, ideas and memories.

Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running

February 18 - June 5, 2022

The Jewish Museum presents the first U.S. museum survey of the Lithuanian-born filmmaker, poet, critic, and institution-builder who helped shape the avant-garde in New York City and beyond.

Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson

September 16, 2007 - February 3, 2008

Acclaimed photographer Bruce Davidson’s intimate and moving images of writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and residents of New York City’s Lower East Side—taken from 1957 to 1990—reveal Singer’s literary world of Holocaust survivors and East European Jewish immigrants.

Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collections of the Jewish Museum and the Robert and Tracey Pruzan Center for Learning

Featuring more than 200 works, Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collections of the Jewish Museum unfolds across the Museum’s third floor in a thematic and chronologically integrated presentation of its unparalleled holdings. The Museum’s fourth floor features the new Robert and Tracey Pruzan Center for Learning, where art…

Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History

March 18 - August 7, 2016

Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History is the first museum exhibition to focus on the influential American fashion designer, artist, and entrepreneur. On view through August 7, the exhibition explores Isaac Mizrahi’s unique position at the intersection of high style and popular culture. While best known for his clothing designs, Mizrahi’s…

Off the Wall: Artists at Work

March 16 - 27, 2008

Off the Wall: Artists at Work is a two-week open studio project featuring 11 artists working and performing in the galleries. Representing a new generation with strong Jewish social networks or a familiarity with Jewish rituals and symbols, artists create a work-in-progress and exhibit other work in various media.

New York Jewish Film Festival 2021

January 13 - 26, 2021

The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center are delighted to continue their partnership to bring you the 2021 New York Jewish Film Festival, presenting films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience. The NYJFF is among the oldest and most influential Jewish film festivals worldwide. In 2021,…

Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention

November 15, 2009 - March 14, 2010

Alias Man Ray presents a fresh look at the diversity of Man Ray’s body of work, examining it in the context of his lifelong cover-up of his Russian-Jewish immigrant past and his suppression of his background. The project marks the first time that his willful construction of an artistic persona…