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The Abstract Gardens, Both Painted and Built, of a Brazilian Modernist
It’s not easy to summarize Roberto Burle Marx and the many facets of his creative output.
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At the Jewish Museum, a Pair of Portraits Prompts Visitors to Think Critically About Collecting
The current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Masterpieces & Curiosities: The Fictional Portrait, does a few remarkable things, perhaps the most remarkable being that it begins to turn the institution inside out, to make not only its collection available to the visitor, but also the policies and proc
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The Whimsy and Wit of Isaac Mizrahi
Oversized frog heads; a thin, silk faille gown swathed in a cotton candy-colored parka; a cacophony of plaids, polka dots, chevrons, furs, sequins, feathers, tribal prints, and religious iconography. This is the world of Isaac Mizrahi, on view at the Jewish Museum.
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Contradictory Narratives of Contemporary Art, Informed by Jewish Thought
Unorthodox, which addresses how art today might embrace the kind of complexity we demand from politics and history, is a large catalogue of paradoxes, or, in more material terms, of objects whose cultural significance is still ambiguous.
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The Idealism of Early Soviet Russia in Pictures
The Jewish Museum’s The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film examines the beginnings of Soviet Russia, positing that the period from 1921 to 1932 was one of avant-garde artistic experimentation, a time when photographers and filmmakers (many of them Jewish) imagined their c
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Films That Train Their Lenses on a Media-Saturated Argentina
These works from Argentina explore the effects of living in a media-saturated world, but a theme as general as "media" can erase the specifics of a country's identity.
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When Commercial Television Met the Art World
About halfway through the Jewish Museum’s Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television, you can watch a curious short video circa 1952 directed by Sidney Peterson.
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Revisiting a Jewish Ritual with Nicole Eisenman
Nicole Eisenman's painting "Seder" puts the viewer at the center of a formal Passover family gathering.
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The Lifeless Eyes of Laurie Simmons’s Human Dolls
From her early photographs of dolls acting like humans, to more recent explorations of humans who resemble dolls, artist Laurie Simmons has spent her career blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
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Celebrate Retro TV and Modern Art with Music and Dancing at the Jewish Museum
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A Three-Year Cinematic Journey Across 25 Countries at the Jewish Museum
Tucked away in a corner of the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum is a little movie theater that transports you far away from the artifacts of Jewish history in the surrounding galleries.
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In Paintings and Collage, the Beginnings of a New Language
The German artist Charline von Heyl’s current show, Dusseldörf, currently on view at Petzel’s new uptown gallery, presents a group of von Heyl’s early collages and paintings from 1990–1995.