by Jeff | Oct 17, 2006 | Uncategorized
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 in Poland. Trained as a dressmaker but untrained in art, she created a collection of 36 fabric pictures of strong, vivid colors...
by Chris Slater | Oct 17, 2006 | Uncategorized
Art and artifacts from North Africa, India, and the former Ottoman Empire have formed a significant part of the Magnes’s encyclopedic collection and are now featured in the new exhibition Journeys East: Patterns of Collecting opening November 20, 2006. Magnes...
by Chris Slater | Jun 23, 2006 | Uncategorized
Judah L. Magnes Museum to premiere world’s first exhibition of extraterrestrial abstract art. Concluding centuries of speculation about extraterrestrial intelligence, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has discovered that a radio signal detected by the Arecibo...
by Chris Slater | May 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
Judah L. Magnes Museum Presents the West Coast premier of My America: Art from The Jewish Museum Collection, 1900-1955, from Jun 5 through September 21, 2006. Focusing on the first half of the 20th century, My America: Art from The Jewish Museum...
by Chris Slater | Feb 1, 2006 | Uncategorized
Modernism in Israel: Works on Paper opens on February 21, 2006, at the Magnes. The exhibition includes prints, watercolors, ink drawings, and illustrated books dating from the 1940s-1950s. During the mid-twentieth century, artists in Israel were intense observers...
