by Laura Bratt | Nov 30, 2025 | Featured News, News
As the calendar year comes to a close, I find myself especially grateful for the moments of joy and hope that have punctuated the year as difficult and often heartbreaking events unfolded locally, nationally, and internationally. Thanks to the support of our community...
by Laura Bratt | Nov 7, 2025 | Exhibition News, Featured News, News
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life announces the final days of its digital installation GifCollider, Chapter 11: Night Vision. A study of collision and context, this continuously changing, interactive media art project by artist and UC Berkeley Professor...
by Laura Bratt | Oct 9, 2025 | Exhibition News, Featured News
At the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, our core mission is to generate new knowledge and understanding of Jewish cultures with and for our academic and public communities. This commitment to discovery and community is central to our new monthly program...
by Laura Bratt | Oct 3, 2025 | Featured News, News
I am always delighted by the stream of activity in the Magnes at the beginning of a new academic and Jewish year. Our student colleagues return with positive energy that radiates through the museum like ripples on a pond. And guests flow through the building to visit...
by Laura Bratt | Sep 25, 2025 | Featured News, News
We grieve the passing of Tad Taube, philanthropist, advocate, and friend of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley. Born in Kraków, Poland in 1931, Tad immigrated to the United States in the spring of 1939, just months before the outbreak of World...
