An exhibition at the Jewish Museum traces the triumphs and tragedies of an eminent European banking dynasty
Current and coming: Changing lenses at the Jewish Museum
The story of the exhibition Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine
Editor’s Letter– November/December 2020
I wondered how cultural institutions, desperate for attendance, were handling the restrictions forced by the coronavirus pandemic, and took a stroll along New York’s “Museum Mile” on Fifth Avenue.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 2/05/20–2/11/20
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Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 10/15/19–10/21/19
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When Edith Met Abby
When Edith Gregor Halpert opened a gallery in Greenwich Village in 1926, the art world was a different place.
An avant-garde patron and peer at the Jewish Museum
A feminist with a penchant for wit, whimsy, and social satire, the artist and Jazz Age saloniste Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944) has often, and unfairly, been misconstrued by critics: her playfulness misread as frivolity, her style and subject matter cast as lacking gravitas.
Glass Act: A new show at the Jewish Museum examines the life and work of art deco master Pierre Chareau
With its stunning façade composed almost entirely of textured glass blocks set in a steel framework, the Maison de Verre, or “House of Glass,” designed and built between 1927 and 1932, is one of the most remarkable buildings in Paris.
Meet the Meyers at the Jewish Museum
By Stephanie L. Herdrich, Metropolitan Museum of Art John Singer Sargent’s Mrs. Carl Meyer and Her Children, a dazzling display of fin-desiècle opulence and bravura painting, is the focus of a dossier exhibition this fall at New York’s Jewish Museum. The exhibition explores the sitter’s identity and life as a privileged Jew in late Victorian London and affords visitors a …