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Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 5th Ave at 92nd St, New York, NY and was established in 1904 and is housed in the historic Warburg Mansion. The museum is dedicated to exploring Jewish culture, art and history. Its collection includes over 30,000 objects ranging from ancient artifacts to contemporary art with notable works by artists such as Marc Chagall, May Ray and Eva Hesse. The Jewish Museum hosts a variety of exhibitions including “Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything” and “Scenes from the Collection,” which offer diverse perspectives on Jewish identity and experience. The museum also offers educational programs, family workshops and public events fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of Jewish heritage and culture. Read more about Museums.

A large framed painting of multiple nude figures with gray hair intertwined in overlapping poses hangs on a freestanding white wall inside a museum gallery with track lighting and polished gray floors.

At 93, Joan Semmel Continues to Assert the Female Gaze

Rather than shrink from the canvas, the artist is still pushing back on prevailing prejudices, and her work today is as confrontational as ever.
By Fred Voon
A rooftop installation of Christmas trees at DUMBO House, each tree decorated with multicolored lights and playful, fabric-covered arms reaching outward, set against sweeping views of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline at dusk.

10 New York Museum Shows Worth Slowing Down for Over the Holidays

After Miami and before the new year, the art world calendar briefly loosens its grip, creating a rare pause that invites unhurried engagement with New York’s most compelling museum exhibitions.
By Elisa Carollo
Close-up of red street signs reading “5 Av” and “Museum Mile” mounted on a metal pole, with leafy green trees in the background.

What Not to Miss at This Year’s Museum Mile Festival

For one glorious day each year, a stretch of New York’s Fifth Avenue is closed to cars and open for art lovers.
By Christa Terry and Elisa Carollo
FRANCE-ART-YOGA-MUSEUM-MEDITATION

Art Museums Are Increasingly Trialing Amenities to Engage Broader Audiences

By Daniel Grant
Older man dressed in suit poses behind yellow color block wall

Cultural Comings and Goings: The Jewish Museum’s New Director and More

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Shot of interior of the Met, stone walls with two levels displaying artifacts and art.

A New York Law Requires Museums to Label Nazi-Looted Art. But Are They Following It?

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Jewish Museum Workers Are Organizing a Union with Local 2110

By Annie Levin

Louise Bourgeois’ Lifelong Entanglement With Psychoanalysis

By Anni Irish

“Afterlives” Exhibition Explores the Cultural Impacts of Nazi-Looted Art

By Sophia Stewart

The 10 Must-See Art Exhibitions of Spring 2019

By Scott Indrisek
Jim Shaw, Martian Portraits, 1978

From Warhol’s Pop Masterpieces to Manny Farber’s ‘Termite Art,’ the 15 Must-See Exhibitions of Fall 2018

By Paddy Johnson

A New Exhibition Shows Why Soutine Never Became a Household Name—But Should Have

By David D'Arcy
The up-and-coming art world power players of 2017.

Emerging Art World Power Players

By Taylor Dafoe
Institutions from MoMA to the Art Institute of Chicago will be hosting this spring's blockbuster museum shows.

Top 10 Must-See Museum Shows Opening This Spring

By Alanna Martinez
Gerhard Richter

Eric Clapton’s Richters Yield $74M, Auction Houses Prey on FOMO: Science … And More

By Guelda Voien
Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. (Photo by )

Bon Iver Plays Red Hook, and 5 Other Art World Things to Do

By Alanna Martinez
Students drawing Iggy Pop during a life drawing class at the New York Academy of Art. The work will go on view for Jeremy Deller's exhibition "Iggy Pop Life Class" at the Brooklyn Museum this fall.

Drawings of Iggy Pop’s Body at Brooklyn Museum, and 5 Things to Do Until Election Day

By Alanna Martinez
Andrea Bowers, Political Ribbons, 2016.

The Art in This Show Followed Me Out of the Museum, Told Me I Was Going to Die

By Alina Cohen
The Wright restaurant at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Amenities Galore! Museums Are Upping the Extras But to What End?

By Daniel Grant
Lucille Ball.

‘Scary’ Lucille Ball Sculpture Replaced, Australian Mag Censors Nude Art on Cover

By Alanna Martinez
Isaac Mizrahi

What Chronic Insomniac Isaac Mizrahi Does Late at Night

By Dena Silver
LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 11: Labour Member of Parliament for Tooting and London mayoral candidate, Sadiq Khan, gestures after winning the contest to become Labour's candidate to become London mayor at the Royal Festival Hall on September 11, 2015 in London, England. Mr Khan beat 5 other candidates to the position to stand in next years mayoral election.

London’s New Mayor Loves the Arts, British Museum Closes for BP Protest

By Alanna Martinez
The Body.

The Month in Weird: May’s Best Avant-Garde Concerts

By Brad Cohan
Eric Fischl, She says, "Can I help You?" He says, "It can't be Helped.", 2015. © Eric Fischl.

Frieze Week Edition: 25 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before May 9

By Paul Laster
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