NYAB Events - The Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for The Jewish Museum. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

Maya Zack "Mother Economy"
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- Media: Film
- 2008-07-01 - 2008-10-23
Mother Economy, a film by Israeli artist Maya Zack, is a meditation on Holocaust remembrance and an homage to resourceful women during violent periods of political upheaval. Wearing glasses, a lace-collared (...)

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"The Mildred and George Weissman Program" Art Talk
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-06-05 - 2008-06-05
American painter Lee Krasner (1908-1984), a student of Hans Hofmann and one of the most influential Abstract Expressionist artists, produced a distinguished and ambitious body of work. Discover Krasner's (...)

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"But is it Jewish? Contemplating Contemporary Israeli Cinema" Panel Discussion
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-06-03 - 2008-06-03
Noted panelists consider Israeli and Jewish filmmaking: Are all Israeli movies Jewish films? What are the similarities and differences? These provocative questions frame a discussion about Israeli cinema. (...)

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"Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2008-05-04 - 2008-09-21
In Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to rethink Abstract Expressionism and the movements that followed, over fifty key works (...)

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"Andy Warhol's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century Reconsidered" Lecture
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-04-03 - 2008-04-03
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered, this lecture will examine the significance of Warhol’s series, Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century. Tom (...)

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"Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2008-03-16 - 2008-08-03
Andy Warhol's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980) depict renowned luminaries of Jewish culture: Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, George Gershwin, (...)

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Ori Gersht "Pomegranate"
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- Media: Video installation
- 2008-03-09 - 2008-08-21
Referencing a still life by 16th century Spanish artist Juan Sánchez Cotán, Ori Gersht’s eerie and painterly video features a ripe pomegranate dangling from a string and framed with other freshly harvested (...)

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Mor Arkadir "Oil/Water—Mother/Daughter"
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- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2008-03-09 - 2008-06-22
The documentary film Oil, Water (2005) and photograph Overlap (2004) by Mor Arkadir, winner of the 2005 Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art and Design, explore the intersection between the artist’s (...)

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Ori Gersht "Pomegranate"
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- Media: Video installation
- 2008-03-09 - 2008-06-22
Referencing a still life by 16th century Spanish artist Juan Sánchez Cotán, Ori Gersht’s eerie and painterly video features a ripe pomegranate dangling from a string and framed with other freshly harvested (...)

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