Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-49
The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave. at 92nd Street
Manhattan, NY 10128-0118
More than 200 works and ephemera, featuring Chagall's monumental murals in addition to more than 100 watercolor, gouache and crayon drawings of costume and set designs executed in the experimental modes of Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism by such artists as Natan Altman, Robert Falk, Ignaty Nivinsky, Isaac Rabinovich and Aleksandr Tyshler
When:
Price:
$12 (free Saturdays), $10 seniors, $7.50 students, children admitted free
Information:
212-423-3200
Events at this location
Through Jan. 4, 2009
Leola Bermanzohn: Otiyot (Letters)
Temporary, site-specific mural re-imagining the script of the Dead Sea Scrolls (created in response to the exhibition, "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of the Ancient World")
Through Feb. 1, 2009
1942 (Poznan)
Video installation by Uriel Orlow reflecting on the uses of former synagogues in once-vibrant European Jewish communities decimated by Nazism and forgotten under Communism
Through Feb. 1, 2009
Susan Hiller: The J. Street Project
Some 303 photographs, with a video and reference materials, documenting German street signs with the prefix "Juden" (Jews) marking the absence of Jewish communities that lived in Germany prior to Nazi rule
Through Feb. 1, 2009
Theaters of Memory: Art and the Holocaust
Artworks from the permanent collection exploring how artists have depicted the Holocaust, including some by such renowned artists as Tadeusz Kantor, Christian Boltansky, Anselm Kiefer and George Segal
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