The Biblical Painters Journey
Come on a journey with me, to a time when four artists were young, idealistic and filled with a passion to remake their world and create a new vision in response to a sterile and empty art world. It was the…
Pictures Of Traditional Jewish Family Life At The Jewish Museum
For Moritz Oppenheim (1800-1882) the world had changed irreparably since his childhood in Hanau, Germany. He grew up in a devout home in the ghetto, traditionally schooled in heder and Talmud Torah until 1806, when…
A Unique Seder: A Painting in Grisaille by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim at the Jewish Museum
This image of the Passover Seder by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800-1882) was found in almost every German Jewish 19th century home as part of the immensely popular graphic albums called…
At The Museum of Jewish Heritage
The Shelter from the Storm
Installation View: Steinberger Succah, Museum of Jewish Heritage
The Museum of Jewish Heritage, located at the southern edge of Battery Park City in Manhattan, attempts (and largely succeeds) to make sense of the last century…
The Wrestle in Steel by Grisha Bruskin at the Jewish Museum
The Wrestle, 1995-1996, stainless steel sculpture, approx. 3 ½’ high, ¼” thick, by Grisha Bruskin (American, b. Moscow 1945)
Focus. Focus is what you need as you enter the contemporary art section in the Jewish…