Main Calendar

Family Concert: Music for Aardvarks

12 Feb 2012 16:30:00 GMT

Sunday, February 12, 2012, 11:30am – 12:30pm

Sunday, February 12
11:30 am + 2:00 pm

Groove to the original rockin' sound of David Weinstone and The Music for Aardvarks Band. Cool, catchy favorites like Modern Art and Taxi celebrate being a New York City kid.

JM Family Members: $13 Adult/ $9 Child
General Public: $16 Adult/ $11 Child

Drop-in Art Workshop

12 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Sunday, February 12, 2012, 1 – 4pm

Every Sunday from September 11–June 12
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Age 3 and up

Paint, draw, sculpt or craft a work of art. Please accompany your child during this activity.

Free with Museum Admission

More info: www.thejewishmuseum.org…

Drop-in Art Workshop

19 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Sunday, February 19, 2012, 1 – 4pm

Every Sunday from September 11–June 12
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Age 3 and up

Paint, draw, sculpt or craft a work of art. Please accompany your child during this activity.

Free with Museum Admission

More info: www.thejewishmuseum.org…

Family Art Workshop

20 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Monday, February 20, 2012, 1 – 4pm

I ?Heart New York: Capturing Your World
February 20, 21 + 23
1:00–4:00 pm

Travel back in time through the eyes of New York’s Photo League photographers. Have your portrait taken to include in a personal photo collage. Use images ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park to capture your life in NYC.

Free with Museum Admission

Image credit: Alexander Alland, Untitled (Brooklyn Bridge), c. 1938, gelatin silver print. The Jewish Museum, New York, Purchase: William and Jane Schloss Family Foundation Fund. © Estate of Alexander Alland, Sr.

Family Art Workshop

21 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 1 – 4pm

I ?Heart New York: Capturing Your World
February 20, 21 + 23
1:00–4:00 pm

Travel back in time through the eyes of New York’s Photo League photographers. Have your portrait taken to include in a personal photo collage. Use images ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park to capture your life in NYC.

Free with Museum Admission

Family Art Workshop

23 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Thursday, February 23, 2012, 1 – 4pm

I ?Heart New York: Capturing Your World
February 20, 21 + 23
1:00–4:00 pm

Travel back in time through the eyes of New York’s Photo League photographers. Have your portrait taken to include in a personal photo collage. Use images ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park to capture your life in NYC.

Free with Museum Admission

Drop-in Art Workshop

26 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Sunday, February 26, 2012, 1 – 4pm

Every Sunday from September 11–June 12
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Age 3 and up

Paint, draw, sculpt or craft a work of art. Please accompany your child during this activity.

Free with Museum Admission

More info: www.thejewishmuseum.org…

Family Art Workshop + Gallery Tour

04 Mar 2012 15:30:00 GMT

Sunday, March 4, 2012, 10:30am – 12:30pm

Wild Animal Masks for Purim
Sunday, March 4, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Ages 5 to 8

Bring out your wild side and design an exotic animal mask to celebrate Purim. An animal hunt in the galleries will send you after a peacock, a kangaroo or the king of the jungle. Sculpt your own mane, plumes or elephant trunk to swing in or roar in the holiday.

JM Family Members: $12 Adult/ $10 Child
General Public: $10 Adult/ $8 Child

SPECIAL OFFER
Wild Animal Masks for Purim plus Dirty Sock Funtime Band performance

$24 Adult/$18 Child
JM Family Members $19 Adult/$13 Child

Drop-in Art Workshop

04 Mar 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Sunday, March 4, 2012, 1 – 4pm

Every Sunday from September 11–June 12
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Age 3 and up

Paint, draw, sculpt or craft a work of art. Please accompany your child during this activity.

Free with Museum Admission

More info: www.thejewishmuseum.org…

Family Concert: Dirty Sock Funtime Band

04 Mar 2012 19:00:00 GMT

Sunday, March 4, 2012, 2 – 3pm

The Dirty Sock Funtime Band
Sunday, March 4, 2:00pm
Ages 3 to 8

Dirty Sock Funtime Band is back for riotous revelry during Purim. Enjoy carnival-like klezmer rock sounds while dancing in costume to ClownaHagila and many other party songs.

JM Family Members: $13 Adult/ $9 Child
General Public: $16 Adult/ $11 Child

SPECIAL OFFER
Dirty Sock Funtime Band performance plus Wild Animal Masks for Purim

$24 Adult/$18 Child
JM Family Members $19 Adult/$13 Child

Lecture: Lucette Lagnado

05 Mar 2012 16:30:00 GMT

Monday, March 5, 2012, 11:30am – 12:30pm

The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn with Lucette Lagnado
Monday, March 5 at 11:30 am

In her much-anticipated new memoir, Lucette Lagnado tells the story of her mother’s coming of age in a magical old Cairo. Lagnado then revisits her own early years in America—first, as a schoolgirl in Brooklyn’s immigrant enclaves and later, as a reporter for some of America’s most prestigious newspapers.

Lucette Lagnado is an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of the memoir, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit.

Tickets:
$15 General Public
$12 Students and 65+
$10 Members

Holiday Tour

05 Mar 2012 19:15:00 GMT

Monday, March 5, 2012, 2:15 – 3:15pm

Holiday Tour
2:15pm

Join us for a special thematic tour of the permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity, in celebration of Women's History Month

This tour will also be offered March 6, 8, and 9 at 1:15pm

Free with museum admission

Unknown Artist/Maker, Portrait of a Woman, c. 1750 ,oil on canvas. The Jewish Museum, New York. Gift of Dr. Harry G. Friedman.

Holiday Tour

06 Mar 2012 18:15:00 GMT

Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 1:15 – 2:15pm

Holiday Tour
1:15pm

Join us for a special thematic tour of the permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity, in celebration of Women's History Month

This tour will also be offered March 8 and 9 at 1:15pm

Free with museum admission

Unknown Artist/Maker, Portrait of a Woman, c. 1750 ,oil on canvas. The Jewish Museum, New York. Gift of Dr. Harry G. Friedman.

Holiday Tour

08 Mar 2012 18:15:00 GMT

Thursday, March 8, 2012, 1:15 – 2:15pm

Holiday Tour
1:15pm

Join us for a special thematic tour of the permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity, in celebration of Women's History Month

This tour will also be offered March 9 at 1:15pm

Free with museum admission

The Wind Up: Kalkidan + DJ Spooky

09 Mar 2012 01:30:00 GMT

Thursday, March 8, 2012, 8:30 – 11pm

Performance by Ethiopian-Israeli reggae, hip-hop artist Kalkidan Mashasha and composer, multimedia artist and writer Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky "That Subliminal Kid". Introduction by Kehinde Wiley.

$12 in advance, $15 day of event

Holiday Tour

09 Mar 2012 18:15:00 GMT

Friday, March 9, 2012, 1:15 – 2:15pm

Holiday Tour
1:15pm

Join us for a special thematic tour of the permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity, in celebration of Women's History Month

Free with museum admission

Drop-in Art Workshop

11 Mar 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Sunday, March 11, 2012, 1 – 4pm

Every Sunday from September 11–June 12
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Age 3 and up

Paint, draw, sculpt or craft a work of art. Please accompany your child during this activity.

Free with Museum Admission

More info: www.thejewishmuseum.org…

Kehinde Wiley in Conversation

15 Mar 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Thursday, March 15, 2012, 6:30 – 7:30pm

Kehinde Wiley in Conversation with Lola Ogunnaike
Thursday, March 15 at 6:30 pm

One of the most significant young artists working today, American painter Kehinde Wiley discusses his latest series The World Stage: Israel. Opening March 9, the exhibition showcases vibrant large-scale portraits of Israeli youths, each embedded in a unique background inspired by Jewish ceremonial art.

Lola Ogunnaike is one of the leading pop culture authorities
in the country and is currently a Today Show contributor.
She served as culture reporter for CNN and The New York
Times and her articles have appeared in Elle, Harper’s
Bazaar and New York Magazine.

Tickets:
$15 General Public
$12 Students and 65+
$10 Members