October 12, 2023 Dear Jewish Museum Community, Over the past several days, we have watched with grief and horror the acts of terror inflicted by Hamas targeting innocent people in Israel. We condemn these atrocities, for which there is no justification. These recent events in Israel have sent shockwaves not…

Celebrating the Jewish Museum Members for the Month of May — The Jewish Museum is thrilled to kick off our first-ever Members Appreciation Month, a celebration to say thank you to our member community. The support and commitment of members are vital to the Museum’s mission. In appreciation, members will enjoy additional perks throughout the month of May. Learn more about…

Learn more about works by Carrie Mae Weems, Gloria Kisch, Barbra Levittoux-Śeiderska, Lillian Bassman, Julia Weist, and Ethel Fisher, now part of the collection — Broadening and enriching the collection with new acquisitions— including paintings, sculpture, photography, and Judaica — is at the core of the Jewish Museum’s mission. The Museum has been actively working to bring more pieces by women into the collection. Here are some of the newly acquired works — by Carrie…

The works are the first by Cohen to enter the collection, enhancing the Museum’s ability to put forward a diversity of stories encompassing Jewish identity — Alex Bradley Cohen’s paintings are windows into both the artist’s everyday life and his process as a painter. Cohen lives and works in his hometown of Chicago, where his family and friends serve as the primary subject of his work in portraiture. In the artist’s words, “I believe that staying…

Recognized internationally for her pioneering work in photography and her engagement in feminist issues these works are the first by the artist to enter the Museum’s collection — Over a career spanning nearly 60 years, Jewish-American artist Joanne Leonard (b. 1940, Los Angeles, CA) has poignantly captured scenes of sincerity and pensiveness in both private and public spheres. The Jewish Museum is honored to have received from Leonard a gift of 11 artworks that are now a part…

Explore the mizrah by Israel Dov Rosenbaum that inspired Kehinde Wiley, and the intersectional family story behind it, as told by Rosenbaum’s great-great-granddaughter Amy Shimshon-Santo — What would you give your child if you knew you might never see them again? Israel Dov Rosenbaum, my paternal great-great-grandfather, gave his daughter Bessie papercut artworks he made by hand. They are now considered to be among the greatest surviving examples of Jewish paper cutting. Art is a vessel…

See the Recently Restituted Work, on Loan to the Jewish Museum February 16, 2023 — January 1, 2024 — The vast and systemic pillaging of artworks during World War II, and the ongoing rescue and return of many, is one of the most dramatic stories of twentieth-century art. As part of its mission to explore 4,000 years of the global Jewish experience, the Jewish Museum highlights these stories through…

Curator of Judaica Abigail Rapoport brings to light new research on a unique menorah in the Jewish Museum’s collection — Too often, the stories of Jewish ceremonial objects are left to our imagination, to our tireless attempts at piecing together puzzle pieces that do not always fit together and may never will. We urge the object to speak to us, to give us clues that empower us to decipher marks…

The Jewish Museum is thrilled to once again lend Hanukkah menorahs from its collection to the Office of the Vice President for Hanukkah. In Vice President Kamala Harris’s office is an iconic menorah made by Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert in New York in 1958. In Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff’s office is…