Upcoming Exhibitions
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
September 13, 2009 - February 07, 2010
Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to survey Jewish ritual as a vital site of experimentation in contemporary art and design since the 1990s. Fifty groundbreaking works by fifty leading artists in diverse media, from jewelry to video to architecture, reveal the intersections of creative freedom and ethical practice.
Rite Now: Sacred and Secular in Video
September 13, 2009 - February 07, 2010
This grouping of videos produced between 2001 and 2008 focuses on explorations of secular and sacred ceremonies in a new framework. Some document inventive spiritual practice, some refocus old stories using a contemporary lens, and other works function independently as new rituals.
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention
November 15, 2009 - March 14, 2010
Alias Man Ray presents a fresh look at the diversity of Man Ray's body of work, examining it in the context of his lifelong cover-up of his Russian-Jewish immigrant past and his suppression of his background. The project marks the first time that his willful construction of an artistic persona is explored and demonstrates how this personal agenda informs his work and methods.
South Africa Witnessed: Photographs by David Goldblatt (working title)
May 04, 2010 - September 26, 2010
David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most highly regarded photographers, was witness to Apartheid’s infiltration into every aspect of South African life. His photos do not look at the large events or the public face of violence; rather they focus on the world of ordinary people and the minutiae of everyday life, illuminating the depth of injustice and the character of the people who impose it and who struggle against it.
