Posted on Friday May 18, 2012
From May 16 through June 28, the galleries will be open Wednesday - Friday, 12-4 pm. Galleries will be closed June 29-August 28 for exhibition reinstallation. The Magnes will reopen to the ...
Posted on Wednesday April 04, 2012
Two illustrated Judeo-Persian manuscripts depicting biblical scenes. 85.46.1 and 85.46.2Gift of Chimon Mayeri and Family
Posted on Monday February 06, 2012
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley Presents The Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards, 2012 The Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards for Poems on Jewish experience were ...
Posted on Sunday February 05, 2012
Welcome Back Magnes! Open to the Public: Wed-Sunday 12pm-4pm, Thur till 7pm Come visit one of the world's greatest collections of Jewish art and life. Admission is FREE!
Posted on Friday January 27, 2012
Kenneth Baker, Chronicle's art critic, reviews The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. //
Posted on Friday January 27, 2012
The New York Times' critic, Edward Rothstein, reviews The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. //
Posted on Friday January 20, 2012
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life is opening the doors of its new facility. See the new home of The Magnes. View the opening exhibitions and the exciting glass wall open storage. ...
Posted on Tuesday January 10, 2012
The staff of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life collaborated with The Hive Advertising in San Francisco to create an ad campaign for the launch of its new facility in 2012. Many images ...
Posted on Wednesday December 28, 2011
Multimedia artist Emmanuel Witzthum (Jerusalem) and scholar Jeffrey Shandler (Rutgers University), in conversation with Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes, UC Berkeley), will discuss Witzthum's ...
Posted on Monday December 19, 2011
We are deeply saddened by the passing if Warren Hellman, who died yesterday in San Francisco. An outstanding figure in the Bay Area, Warren was instrumental in the creation of The Magnes ...
Sunday January 22, 2012 to Friday August 10, 2012
In its first five decades The Magnes has made a global impact on Jewish culture through pioneering collecting practices and communal activism. It incubated the first Jewish film festival in the ...
Sunday January 22, 2012 to Monday August 20, 2012
Built by Pacassa Studios, a local woodworking and architecture firm, the display cases at the very center of the new Magnes facility will be used to highlight thematic selections from the ...
Sunday January 22, 2012 to Tuesday July 03, 2012
Emmanuel Witzthum’s multimedia project, Dissolving Localities, has focused for the last several years on the layers that compose the city of Jerusalem. Witzhum and the artists he invited “perform” ...
Sunday January 22, 2012 to Tuesday July 03, 2012
Gale Antokal draws with a mixture of volatile materials, such as chalk, powder, graphite, flour and ash. Using documentary photographs as source, she creates evocative new images.   The ...

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Posted on Sunday May 06, 2012
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Posted on Sunday April 29, 2012
Author Bengt Jangfeldt will be speaking tomorrow (4/25 * 4PM) at The Magnes. The best-selling Swedish writer… http://t.co/N6V1c0uK # New on http://t.co/JZQmaOI7: Shma (2003) by Emmanuel ...
Posted on Sunday April 22, 2012
Photo: Photograph [2010.3.21]: Three Generations (2003), from the portfolio One Family by Vardi Kahana… http://t.co/a6lErop6 # Share and Enjoy:
Posted on Sunday April 15, 2012
TONIGHT (4/10) The Magnes is proud to host the FREE Annual Israeli Film Festival at UC Berkeley. See you at 6:30PM! http://t.co/CZs1xhXw # Israel Museum joins Google Art Project ...
Posted on Sunday April 08, 2012
Passover Breaking News: Moses and Aaron argue with Pharaoh (19th-century Persian manuscript) http://t.co/FrIrtDfB # What is The Magnes? More answers from the Jewish Week (New York) ...
Posted on Sunday April 01, 2012
Join us next Tuesday April 3rd for the screening of "The Matchmaker" ! http://t.co/PYWWs5QB # From the Benveniste family in Salonika. http://t.co/vhS34qrq # Published Raoul Wall en Berg ...
Posted on Sunday March 25, 2012
Photo: Bustan Quartet, Israel’s world music supergroup, performing at The Magnes earlier tonight as part of… http://t.co/ftHeNRHM # Photo: This is The Magnes: Bustan Quartet, Israeli world ...
Posted on Sunday March 18, 2012
Photo: Photograph [97.20.1]: Jews of Djerba – Blue Bride, by Keren T. Friedman (Djerba, Tunisia, 1983) on… http://t.co/PKwyFZvT # Photo: Photograph [97.20.2]: Jews of Djerba – ...
Posted on Sunday March 11, 2012
Come to "Dissolving Localities | A Conversation With Emmanuel Witzthum" Thursday, March 15 from 6:00 pm to 8:00… http://t.co/ubYYjhk8 # Just updated on http://t.co/JZQmaOI7: ...
Posted on Sunday March 04, 2012
Here's something our own Francesco Spagnolo has been up to… http://t.co/UKzgbhN2 # Photo: This is The Magnes: Fifty students from UC Berkeley’s class, “Music in Israel” (taught by ...