Jewish Museum (New York) - Art Exhibitions

Art Exhibitions

Over the past twenty years, some of the museum's important exhibitions have included:

• The Circle of Montparnasse: Jewish Artists in Paris, 1905–1945 (1985)
• The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth, and Justice (1987)
• Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900–1945 (1991)
• Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional Identities (1996)
• Assignment: Rescue, The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee (1997)
• An Expressionist in Paris: The Paintings of Chaim Soutine (1998)
• Voice, Image, Gesture: Selections from The Jewish Museum’s Collection, 1945–2000 (2001)
• Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art (2002)
• New York: Capital of Photography (2002)
• Modigliani Beyond the Myth (2004)
• Eva Hesse: Sculpture (2006)
• Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 (2008)
• Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism (2010–2011)
• Harry Houdini: Art and Magic (2010–2011)
• Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) (2011)
• Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone sisters of Baltimore (2011)
• The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951 (2012)
• The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats (2012)
• Kehinde Wiley / The World Stage: Israel (2012)