Past Exhibitions - 2000
Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?
December 10, 2000 - March 25, 2001
Salomon combines painting with text and musical cues to tell a compelling autobiographical coming-of-age story set during World War II amid increasing Nazi oppression.
Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land
September 24, 2000 - February 11, 2001
Many strands of history and culture have gone into the making of Morocco's people during the past three thousand years. Together, Muslims and Jews forged a common spiritual culture and an artistic culture that reflects the dominant aesthetics of Islamic art.
Drink and Be Merry: Wine and Beer in Ancient Times
July 30, 2000 - November 05, 2000
Drink and Be Merry examines the subject of wine and beer in antiquity - their production and trade to their central role in ritual, festive celebrations and everyday life.
May 28, 2000 - August 20, 2000
Anni Albers is considered the foremost textile artist of the twentieth century. She bravely broke from the tradition in which textiles reproduced naturalistic imagery or decorative ornament.
Paris in New York: French Jewish Artists in Private Collections
March 05, 2000 - June 25, 2000
From about 1907 to shortly after World War I, these Jewish painters and sculptors, predominantly from Eastern Europe, experimented with the stylistic innovations of the key avant-garde figures of the period, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
