Exhibitions History
The Magnes has a fifty year history of presenting exhibitions that break new ground in Judaica connoisseurship, introduce under-recognized Jewish artists of the 20th century, and take risks with experimental projects by contemporary artists. Many exhibitions have drawn on selections from its extensive collections, or commissioned works that use the collections as inspiration.
This page tries to reconstruct the exhibition history of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, followed by the exhibitions created by its successor, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. The description of each exhibition will hopefully grow in time, with texts and label texts, images, press releases, links to press coverage and artists and contributors websites. Visitors to the website who have been involved with any of these exhibitions and wish to contribute additional materials are encouraged to do so, reaching out to our staff through our contact information page.
Inaugural exhibition of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life With the establishment of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley in July 2010, unique ...
A photographic history about and exhibition of original painting by Bernard Baruch Zakheim (1896-1985) at the Jazz Heritage Center, in San Francisco. Koret Heritage LobbyPhotographic ...
After the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906, the Fillmore district became home to a thriving Jewish community. Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Eastern Europe took root alongside ...
Jews of the Fillmore is an exhibition at The Jazz Heritage Center's Koret Heritage Lobby completed by a twenty-minute walking tour through the Fillmore district of San Francisco, California, and ...
The exhibition will survey recent work by contemporary Israeli artists. On loan from important private Bay Area collections, the paintings, photographs, and media art in the exhibition demonstrate ...
They Called Me Mayer July is the result of a 40-year collaboration between Yiddish anthropologist, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and her father, Mayer Kirshenblatt. Mayer grew up in Apt, Poland, ...
Continuing a centuries-old dialogue between Jewish and Islamic musical traditions, guest curator Lawrence Rinder stages a multichannel sound installation incorporating a new musical composition ...
The studio on Rue Ferou in Paris was the home that Man Ray shared with his wife Juliet for twenty-five years. The couple lived and worked there from 1951 until the artist's death in 1976. Juliet ...
San Francisco-based artist Amy Berk uses Jewish ceremonial textiles in the Magnes collection as inspiration for an installation of reappropriated, hand-sewn wall pieces that reflect her interest ...
A significant component of the Magnes Collection is its holdings representing Jewish material culture from the Jewish communities of North Africa, India, and the former Ottoman Empire. During the ...
In 1977, at the age of 50, Esther Nisenthal Krinitz began creating works of fabric art to tell her story of survival during the Holocaust. Trained as a dressmaker but untrained in art, she ...
Concluding centuries of speculation about extraterrestrial intelligence, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has discovered that a radio signal detected by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto ...
Focusing on the first half of the 20th century, My America: Art from The Jewish Museum Collection, 1900-1955 explores the eclectic styles and subjects of American art during this time. The ...
During the mid-twentieth century, artists in Israel were intense observers and participants in the momentous historic developments of their time, as a new national culture was being forged ...
f Not Now, When? 150 Years of California Jewish Activism, an exhibition created in conjunction with The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, opened on February 12, 2006 at the ...
In The Danube Exodus, Hungarian artist Péter Forgács and the Labyrinth Project at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication present an ...
Ideal City is the third in a series of exhibitions entitled REVISIONS where artists, curators, and scholars are invited to create experimental installations inspired by the Magnes's permanent ...
Is portability only a response to historic necessity or is it a fundamental quality of Jewish art? A multiplicity of art, Judaica and books from the Magnes collection demonstrate how Jewish ...
This CASE STUDY exhibition is a collection of pieces from throughout the history of the Emanu-el Sisterhood for Personal Service, which served the Bay Area's Jewish women and girls for over ...
Acting Out presents the little-known chapter in the lives of the famed Surrealist photographer Lucie Schwob (aka Claude Cahun) and her partner, the writer and artist Marcel Moore. In the ...
Born in Tel Aviv, Naomie Kremer lives and works in Oakland. A distinguished painter (MFA, California College of Arts), she is represented by Modernism Inc. in San Francisco. Kremer teaches in ...
The study of sacred books is a biblical injunction to which Jews have always given the highest priority. An important religious duty in itself, it would also lead to the performance of all the ...
Lazar Markovich Khidekel (1904-1986) was a student of Marc Chagall, one of the three principal followers of Kazimir Malevich, a pioneer in the visionary avant-garde movement called Suprematism, ...
In the late 1840s and early 1850s, Jews flooded into the Gold Country of California to stake their claim in the Gold Rush. Over the years many of these prospectors, miners and entrepreneurs ...
During centuries of spiritual, intellectual, and material flowering on the Iberian Peninsula—Sepharad in Hebrew—Jews coexisted creatively with surrounding Christian and Muslim cultures. This ...
Afred Henry Jacobs: Architect is the first exhibition to examine the career of Alfred Henry Jacobs (1882-1954), a Jewish architect whose vision helped shape Bay Area cityscapes. Jacobs ...
Diane Neumaier, a New York photographer, found and reprinted black-and-white negatives of family snapshots taken by her father John (Hans) Neumaier when he was a boy in the 1930's in Frankfurt. ...
Brought to Light: The Storied Collections of the Judah L. Magnes Museum celebrates the museum's 40th anniversary and public reopening. The exhibition is a colorful array of ceremonial ...
In 2003, the Judah L. Magnes Museum and the Jewish Museum San Francisco worked together to create an exhibition around a recently uncovered time capsule found in an old temple on Bush ...
Facets of Memory, shown at the Jewish Museum of San Francisco, featured photographs of Christian Boltanski and Marcelo Brodsky, together with photographs from the collections of the Judah L. ...
SF Chronicle: Magnes Show Ticks Through Cultural Responses to Time 11.17.2000
JWeekly- Magnes will affix mezuzah filled with AIDS blood, by Natalie Weinstein – 11.29
SF Chronicle: The Holocaust on a Whole New Scale, by Kenneth Baker – 05.14.1996
JWeekly: `Shalom Italia' Celebrates Heritage of Italian Jews – 02.12.1996
Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries of the California Gold Rush 1005
"Begun in 1984, the Berkeley museum's volunteer-staffed Docent Outreach Program -- dubbed "the museum that comes to you" -- currently offers 15 different narrated shows, all but one with ...
dates not listed. Just said 1991. Andrea
I was not able to add another link to world cat book that had a chapter by Thury, so I put it under "external links" ... Andrea
This exhibition includes thirty-six illuminating images by photographer Keren Friedman, which evoke daily life in the ancient and still thriving Jewish communities of the island of Djerba, ...
Daniela Barnea (found for sale but is not in WorldCat)Magnes Museum Berkeley, California c. 1976Quarto, stapled apper covers, 14 pp., b/w illustrations throughout
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First exhibit at 2911 Russell Street
