The Paintings of Leah Ashkenazy
You see, there is just something about that little girl that I can’t get out of my mind. How does she face those fire-breathing beasts? Her certainty shakes me and leave me sleepless. Is it because the two monsters threaten…
Chagall in Mother Russia
If you didn't know this was the famous Chagall, and if you didn't know Chagall was going to become perhaps the greatest Jewish painter of the twentieth century; what would you think of the early works of this artist when he…
At The Jewish Museum: Charlotte Salomon's Legacy
What would do if you knew there was a play, a play with text and music, that told the story of one whole life. A Jewish life. The story of a young woman, told from before she was…
Retrospective At Yeshiva University Museum: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
Many of these paintings I do not like. Some I do. All of them are very important for us to look at and understand since Oppenheim’s work represents the seminal encounter between Jewish tradition and the challenges…
55 Year Retrospective Exhibition
Ita Aber is a very unusual artist. Her work is in almost every major Jewish museum throughout the world. She is a master of the Fabric Arts, which is, by its very nature, an interdisciplinary field. As practiced by Ita Aber…
Jewish Genre Painting
Itshak Holtz is an artist totally immersed in the Jewish genre. He was born in Poland, grew up in Israel, mainly in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Geula, and for the last thirty-five years he has maintained homes in both New York and…
Isidor Kaufmann, Friday Evening, c. 1920, oil on canvas, 28 5/8 × 35 7/8 inches, The Jewish Museum
Isidor Kaufmann - Shabbos
We must be very quiet in front of this painting. It exudes a stillness and peace that envelopes us and makes us lower our…
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…
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…
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…