Contemporary Jewish Museum
Current Exhibitions
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)July 1, 2010 - October 26, 2010The first museum survey of Maira Kalman’s narrative art. Working as an illustrator, author, and designer, Kalman illuminates contemporary life with a profound sense of joy and a unique sense of humor. Kalman’s art appears everywhere in the foreground of today’s visual culture. |
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish LifeApril 22, 2010 - October 3, 2010The first major international exhibition to examine the reinvention of Jewish ritual in art and design.
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As It Is Written: Project 304,805The Torah ProjectOctober 8, 2009 - March 29, 2011As It Is Written: Project 304,805 is centered around a soferet (a professionally trained female scribe) who while on public view will write out the entire text of the Torah over the course of a full year. |
Jews on VinylAnd You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our VinylFebruary 6, 2009 - August 22, 2010Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Josh Kun and Roger Bennett's new book: And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost, which spans the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s, weaving an account that begins with sacred songs and ends with the holy trinity of Neil, Barbra, and Barry. |
StoryCorps StoryBoothOctober 12, 2008 - November 7, 2010The Contemporary Jewish Museum is the first museum in the country to host a StoryCorps StoryBooth. StoryCorps is a New York-based oral history project founded and directed by award-winning documentary artist and MacArthur Fellow Dave Isay. |
“Being Jewish”: A Bay Area PortraitOngoingDiscover the many different ways of “being Jewish” in the Bay Area through this mural of community photos, and objects which reflect the flavor of Jewish life in the Bay Area, both past and present.
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