NEW YORK, NY.- Now celebrating its 33rd year, the annual Museum Mile Festival takes place rain or shine on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Over 1.5 million people have taken part in this annual celebration since its inception. Festiv…
The Contemporary Jewish Museum Presents Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), one of the most influential Americans of the 20th century, is perhaps most famous as a modern writer and the creator of such oft-repeated phrases as “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” But …
The Contemporary Jewish Museum Presents Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), one of the most influential Americans of the 20th century, is perhaps most famous as a modern writer and the creator of such oft-repeated phrases as “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” But …
The Jewish Museum Presents Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters
NEW YORK, NY.- Henri Matisse called them “my two Baltimore ladies.” Their friend Gertrude Stein wrote a poem about them entitled “Two Women.” The sisters Dr. Claribel Cone (1864-1929) and Miss Etta Cone (1870-1949) began buying art …
The Contemporary Jewish Museum Presents Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In the early years of World War II, Charlotte Salomon, a 23-year-old Jewish artist from Berlin, fled to the south of France where she shut herself into a hotel room and spent two years feverishly painting the history of her life. Sh…
Thirty Splendid Marriage Contracts on View at the Jewish Museum in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the world’s foremost collections of decorated Jewish marriage contracts (ketubbot) is held by The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. Thirty of the finest are on display at The Jewish Museum in The Art of …
The Jewish Museum Presents ‘The Line and the Circle’ Video Installation by Sharone Lifschitz
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum presents The Line and the Circle by Sharone Lifschitz, a video installation, from February 11 to August 21, 2011 in the Museum’s Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center. In this video (19 min. 26 sec.), Sharone…
The Annual New York Jewish Film Festival Returns for Its 20th Anniversary in January
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center will present the 20th annual New York Jewish Film Festival at the Film Society’s Walter Reade Theater, The Jewish Museum, and The JCC in Manhattan, Jan. 12-27, 2011. The festi…
Jewish Museum in Warsaw Now Half-Complete
WARSAW (AP).- Officials say construction of a major new Polish museum on the history of what was once Europe’s largest Jewish community is now half-finished. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a skeleton of concrete walls and white winding tub…
After 30 Years of Service, Joan Rosenbaum to Retire as Director of the Jewish Museum in June 2011
NEW YORK, NY.- Joan Rosenbaum, who has led The Jewish Museum since 1981, creating its innovative identity as a museum of art and culture and doubling the size of its home at Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street, has informed the full Board of Trustees of her i…