The 2015 centennial of the Department of Asian Art offers an ideal opportunity to explore the history of the Museum's collection of Japanese art. Showcasing more than two hundred masterworks of every medium, this exhibition tells the story of how the Museum built its comprehensive collection of Japanese art beginning in the early 1880s, when it owned just a small, eclectic array of Japanese de...

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The museum will open an exhibition of recent acquisitions to the collection.  In this sampling of recent gifts on view in the Library Gallery are works by Paul Caponigro, Lois Dodd, James Fitzgerald, Yvonne Jacquette, Robert Indiana, Rockwell Kent, Keith Shaw Williams, Andy Warhol, Andrew Winter, Jamie Wyeth, Marguerite and William Zorach, among others. Closed Mondays The museum is handicap...

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First exhibition of its kind outside Ukraine to feature important contributions to the theater arts in the 1910s and 1920s by modernist Ukrainian artists. Staging the Ukrainian Avant-Garde showcases 125 original art works for the theater by 13 artists, many who were exiled or executed during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s for their perceived political beliefs. The exhibition comprises 142 obje...

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The Work of Paul Rand features more than 150 advertisements, posters, corporate brochures, and books by this master of American design. It was Rand who most creatively brought European avant-garde art movements such as Cubism and Constructivism to graphic design in the United States. The Museum is closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day.

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After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India, 1947/1997 presents the juxtaposition of these two historical periods in Indian art for the first time, examining Indian modern art from 1947 through the 1970s, and contemporary art from 1997 to the present. The exhibition illuminates the journey of these eight artists, examining their work from the 1950s through the 1970s, tracing their infl...

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Spanning from the mid-1960s to the present, Richard Estes: Painting New York City presents works by this quintessential New York artist and enduring leader of the Photorealist movement. Providing an unprecedented insight into the artist's creative process, the exhibition reveals a full range of Estes' paintings and works on paper, including his photographs, silkscreens and woodcuts and the...

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Nicole Eisenman’s 2010 painting Seder resonates in interesting ways with the Jewish Museum’s rich collection of portraits. These paintings detail the political and social history of Jewish identity over the past hundred years through their portrayal of individuals — from the aristocrat to the anonymous burgher to the artist. The museum’s renowned Judaica collection include...

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In How We See, Laurie Simmons draws on the “Doll Girls” subculture of people who alter themselves with makeup, dress, and even cosmetic surgery to look like Barbie, baby dolls, and anime characters. Evoking the tradition of the high-school portrait — when teenagers present their idealized selves to the camera — Simmons photographed fashion models seated in front of a c...

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Several themes are common to both sets of works. Some pieces explore concepts of the human body and its frailties, or the importance of human touch in the creative process. Others challenge the conformity and standardization that may be imposed by government, religious ritual, or mass culture. The peculiarities of communication and the manipulative power of language are another recurring motif. Fi...

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The Museum’s exhibition marks the first time objects relating to the production of Mad Men will be shown in public on this scale. The Museum will also present An Evening with Matthew Weiner and a film series featuring movies that inspired the show, selected by Weiner. The exhibition Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men will be joined by other initiatives around New York City celebrating the serie...

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