Friday, October 1st, 2021

I Transform Hate into Love: Louise Bourgeois at the Jewish Museum

“Freudian theory framed the challenging events of her life, its hidden emotions and anguish.”

Friday, April 19th, 2019

Consciousness Raising: Martha Rosler at the Jewish Museum

A long overdue mid-career retrospective

Chaim Soutine, Sheep Behind a Fence, c. 1940. Oil on canvas, 10-3/4 x 16-1/4 inches. Private Collection, courtesy of the Jewish Museum. Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
Friday, July 13th, 2018

“Flesh is the reason oil paint was invented”: Chaim Soutine at the Jewish Museum

Flesh, on view through September 16

Florine Stettheimer, Self-Portrait with Palette (Painter and Faun), ca. 1915, oil on canvas. Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York
Tuesday, July 11th, 2017

Pretty, Ugly, Beautiful: Florine Stettheimer at the Jewish Museum

“Painting as Poetry” on view through September 25

Friday, October 31st, 2014

The Zombies: Contemporary Abstraction and Its Critics

Do the recent conversations about abstract painting miss the point?

installation shot of the exhibition under review, courtesy of The Jewish Museum
Thursday, October 4th, 2012

Addressing Politics Poetically: Izhar Patkin at the Jewish Museum

The Messiah’s glAss is up through November 11

David Salle, King Kong, 1983. Acrylic, light bulb, oil/canvas, wood, 123 x 96 x 26 inches. The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut, Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery, New York © David Salle, Licensed by VAGA
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

David Salle sallies forth, round table on Leo Castelli, and troika from polymath Harry Berger, Jr.

Upcoming lectures and panels in New York

Man Ray, Le Violon d'Ingres, 1924, vintage gelatin silver print. Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection. © 2009 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention at the Jewish Museum

Transgressive, experimental, fiercely individualistic, Man Ray evaded any categories not of his own creation.

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Recycled Exhibitions

Karen Bookatz on Andy Warhol and Dan Flavin

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

Sarah Bernhardt at the Jewish Museum

WHY THEY WENT WILD FOR THE DIVINE SARAH Alphonse Mucha, color lithographs, from left: Tragique histoire d’Hamlet, 1899; La Samaritaine, 1897; Lorenzaccio, 1896. When “the Divine Sarah” died in 1923 a million people lined the streets of Paris between the Madeleine and the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt to see her cortege wend its way to Pere-Lachaise:  An impressive turnout … Continued