The Jewish Museum

Gallery in New York Precinct, New York United States

http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/

The preeminent museum in the United States devoted exclusively to 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture. Founded in 1904 with just 26 donated objects, the Museum has grown a thousand-fold, and its collections now comprise 26,000, ranging from archaeological artifacts to works by today’s cutting-edge artists. Whether hundreds of years old or newly created, each object collected or exhibited by the Museum embodies an aspect of a truly universal story: at once ancient and modern, global and local, material and spiritual.

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Address
1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street
New York Precinct
NY New York
10128
United States

Opening Hours
Exhibition Galleries* Sat-Wed 11:00am - 5:45pm Thur 11:00am - 8:00pm Fridays 03/13/11-11/01/11 from 11 AM to 5:45 PM *Childrens & Media Center exhibitions are open Sunday-Thursday only.
Price
Adults: $12 Seniors/over 65: $10 Students: $ 7.50 Children under 12: Free Jewish Museum Members: Free Saturdays: Free
Wheelchair Access

Yes

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The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951

THE SNOWY DAY AND THE ART OF EZRA JACK KEATS

Children’s Exhibition. In Archaeology Zone: Discovering Treasures from Playgrounds to Palaces, an engaging and thoroughly interactive experience, children become archaeologists as they search for clues about ancient and modern objects.

Archeology Zone: Discovering Treasures from Playgrounds to Palaces

The Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center features an exhibition space dedicated to video art and new media, and houses a digital library of 100 radio and television programs from The Jewish Museum’s National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting (NJAB).

The Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center

Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore

THE LINE AND THE CIRCLE BY SHARONE LIFSCHITZ

Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)

The Art of Matrimony: Thirty Splendid Marriage Contracts from The Jewish Theological Se...

New York, NY – Now celebrating its 33rd year, the annual Museum Mile Festival (www.museummilefestival.org) takes place rain or shine on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Over 1.5 million people have taken part in this annual celebration since its inception.

THE 33RD ANNUAL MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL

Houdini: Art and Magic

A HANUKKAH PROJECT: DANIEL LIBESKIND’S LINE OF FIRE

Shulie (1997) is a shot-by-shot remake of an obscure documentary about ‘60s feminist Shulamith Firestone. Author of the treatise The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Firestone was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967 when four male directors selected her as a subject for a film about the so-called Now Generation.

SHULIE: A FILM BY ELISABETH SUBRIN

This exhibition explores the origins and impact of feminism on contemporary painting from the 1960s to now. Eva Hesse, Joan Snyder, Deborah Kass, and many other artists forged new avenues for painting by expanding its subjects and inventing new techniques in abstraction, collage, and realism.

Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism

The Jewish Museum is presenting Light x Eight: Hanukkah 2010 at The Jewish Museum. This new annual celebration features exhibitions of Hanukkah-related works, eclectic music, family festivities, provocative talk and more.

Light x Eight: Hanukkah 2010 at The Jewish Museum

As part of a design competition sponsored by the Formica Company, internationally renowned architect Frank Gehry created a series of lamps based on the form of a fish which had become something of a personal icon for him. A selection of Gehry’s colorful and luminous lamps will be on view in this exhibition that will also explore the significance of fish imagery in the architect’s work.

Fish Forms: Lamps by Frank Gehry

South African Photographs: David Goldblatt

South African William Kentridge’s art is internationally acclaimed for its dramatic narrative invention and for its extraordinary technique. Grounded in recent South African history, Kentridge’s complex narratives address personal and universal concerns of love, greed, jealousy, and memory.

South African Projections: Films by William Kentridge

In three documentary portraits, artist Dor Guez offers perspectives from different generations of his Christian Arab family in Israel.

The Monayer Family: Three Videos by Dor Guez

Curious George, the impish monkey protagonist of many adventures, may never have seen the light of day if it were not for the determination and courage of his creators: illustrator H. A. Rey (1898-1977) and his wife, author and artist Margret Rey (1906-1996).

Curious George Saves The Day: The Art of Margret and H.A. Rey

In 1951, architect Percival Goodman charged three avant-garde artists with commissions to decorate his Congregation B’nai Israel synagogue in Millburn, New Jersey.

Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber and Gottlieb

A trailblazing figure in 20th-century art, Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career – Dadaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portrait and fashion photographer – and produced many important and enduring works as a photographer, painter, filmmaker, writer, sculptor, and object maker.

Artists and designers’ rising interest in ritual since the 1990s inspires Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life, the first international exhibition to survey this phenomenon.

Reinventing Ritual

Rite Now presents videos produced between 2001 and 2008 that explore secular and sacred rituals in a new framework, documenting inventive spiritual practices, reimagining old stories, and proposing new rituals.

THE DANUBE EXODUS: THE RIPPLING CURRENTS OF THE RIVER