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The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Magazine - Winter 2008 - Spring 2009 |
Cover | From Our Director and Chairman | Campus Renewal Project: Work in Progress | New Exhibitions | Ruth Youth Wing | Happenings at Home | Special Events at Ticho House | Staff News | Out in the World | Museum on the Move | Traveling Exhibitions | International Events | In Memoriam | Selected Loans to Other Museums | Recent Publications | Selected New Aquisitions | People and Places | Acknowledgments | |
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Traveling Exhibitions
Upcoming Traveling Exhibitions
Talking Heads: Portraits and Texts from the Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art
Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod November 8, 2008 – January 24, 2009 Curator: Tamar Manor-Friedman Traveling exhibition: Adina Kamien-Kazhdan, David Rockefeller Curator, Stella Fischbach Department of Modern Art; and Eva Sznajderman, Department of Prints and Drawings
Talking Heads brings together a selection of portraits and artists’ books, manifestos, periodicals, and letters by prominent Dada and Surrealist figures, drawn from the Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art in the Israel Museum. First shown at the Israel Museum in 2007, the Janco Dada Museum in Ein Hod is an especially appropriate venue for this exhibition which will also travel to Beersheba in 2009.
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| Arturo Schwarz with voice artist Anat Pick, who performed Dada sound poetry at a special event held at Ein Hod within the framework of the exhibition | |
Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Gauguin:
Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark January 31 – June 7, 2009 Curator: Adina Kamien-Kazhdan, David Rockefeller Curator, Stella Fischbach Department of Modern Art, in collaboration with the host museum
Following its successful showing at MART (Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto) in Italy, from September 13, 2008, through January 6, 2009 (reported in our Summer−Fall 2008 Magazine), this exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art traveled on to Denmark in January 2009. Through this traveling exhibition, our impressive holdings in these fields are now enjoying broad international recognition, showcasing some of the Museum’s most beloved and best-known works, by such masters as Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Auguste Rodin.
Surrealism and Beyond in the Israel Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum
February 12 – May 17, 2009
Helsinki City Art Museum
June 26 – September 22, 2009
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
October 16, 2009 – January 17, 2010
Curator: Adina Kamien-Kazhdan, David
Rockefeller Curator, Stella Fischbach
Department of Modern Art
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| Installation view in Cincinnati | |
Woman with a Camera: Liselotte Grschebina, Germany 1908 – Israel 1994
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
April 4 – June 22, 2009
Curator: Yudit Caplan, Associate Curator, Noel and Harriette Levine Department of Photography
At the opening, back row, l. to r.: IMJ Senior Curator of Photography Nissan Perez; James Snyder; Commissarial Chairman of the German Friends Dr. Erich Marx; Deputy Chairman of the German Friends Dan Bronner; IMJ Associate Curator of Photography Yudit Caplan; Chair of the German Friends Sonja Lahnstein-Kandel; and Israel’s Deputy Ambassador to Germany Ilan Mor. Front: Director of the Martin-Gropius-Bau Gereon Sievernich
Upcoming Traveling Exhibitions
The Heritage of the Holy Land: Treasures from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
June 19 – September 22, 2009
Curator: Yigal Zalmona, Chief Curator-at-Large
Chagall: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings from the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Pera Museum, Istanbul
October 22, 2009 – January 27, 2010
Curator: Meira Perry-Lehmann, Michael Bromberg Senior Curator
of Prints and Drawings