Tag: Jewish Museum

Edmund de Waal – interview: ‘The great thing about a library is that, as soon as you have made it, people start to use it’

The British artist and author talks about his many exhibitions this year, including his work for the Venice Biennale 2019 in which he turned the idea of the ghetto into a place of hope and possibility
Edmund de Waal: Psalm

In a two-part exhibition, the artist has used his trademark porcelain vessels, two buildings of great significance and a library of books to trace a universal story of exile and translation
The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film

This exhibition, which presents many canonical works from 1920s and 30s Russia from public and private collections in the west, makes clear that creativity, beauty and innovation can be put at the service of fear and repression
Helena Rubinstein: Beauty is Power

Although her products have been unavailable in the US for decades, Helena Rubinstein – “Empress of Beauty”, as Jean Cocteau called her – is being celebrated by the Jewish Museum in New York. The exhibit focuses on the link she…
Louise Nevelson: The Artist and the Legend

‘I seek truth. What I seek is anything that will work for me. I’ll use a lie if it works, and that [becomes] the truth.’ Louise Nevelson As an artist whose life coincided with the major historical events and artistic…
Édouard Vuillard: A Painter and his Muses, 1890–1940

The Jewish Museum, New York 4 May–23 September 2012
Libeskind impacting Denver

What the Denver citizenry got then, in their quest for an international profile, was not the hoped-for clone of the Pirelli building designed just previously by Ponti (1956) for Milan, but something altogether different, a contextual work.
Unmasking the Heroes of American Comic Art

Masters of American Comics The Newark Museum, New York a 15 September 2006-28 January 2007