Opening Day | Nancy Lee Katz: A Private Pantheon
Sep 2 @ 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Stop by the Magnes to view Nancy Lee Katz: A Private Pantheon on the first day the museum’s newest exhibition is open to the public.
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 | 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
In person at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Nancy Lee Katz: A Private Pantheon explores the artist’s decades-long effort to photograph artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers she admired. Between 1986 and 2010, Nancy Lee Katz photographed nearly 200 cultural figures creating a photographic “temple.” Made in studios, workplaces, and other intimate settings, these portraits reveal the interplay between public achievement and private presence. Unfolding in two parts (fall and spring), the exhibition presents, for the first time, the entirety of Katz’s Pantheon.
Also on view: An Archive of Archives: Roman Vishniac’s Exhibition History | New York, 1971-72 and Time Capsules: Exploring the Permanent Collection.
If you have any questions about accessibility or require accommodations to participate in this event, please contact us at magnes@berkeley.edu or call us at (510) 643-2526 with as much advance notice as possible.
Admission is free. The Magnes’s programs and exhibitions are supported by our community. Click here to make a donation.
Image at top: Nancy Lee Katz, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1994. Gift of Michael S. Sachs, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley, 2024.1.51.
