Past Exhibitions

  • City of Gold, Bronze and Light: Jerusalem between Word and Image

    April 23, 2017 - July 30, 2017
    Rosenberg & Winnick Galleries

    Jerusalem of gold And of bronze, and of light Behold I am a violin for all your songs. Naomi Shemer, from Jerusalem of Gold, 1967 As the ances…

  • Uncommon Threads: Clothing & Textiles from the YU Museum Collection

    December 7, 2016 - April 30, 2017
    Selz Foundation Gallery

    Our ancestors used clothing and textiles to beautify their synagogues, their tables and themselves on Shabbat and holidays as well as important life…

  • Hugh Mesibov's Book of Job Mural

    September 28, 2016 - March 12, 2017
    Popper Gallery

    In 1969, Temple Beth El in Spring Valley commissioned a huge mural illustrating the Biblical account of the suffering and redemption of Job. The Rab…

  • Odessa / Оде́сса: Babel, Ladyzhensky and the Soul of a City

    March 27, 2016 - January 15, 2017

    From its founding in the 18th century, Odessa was to be a new kind of imperial city: an economic crossroads, orderly and modern in its sensibilities…

  • Gray Matter: Stern Senior Show

    May 25, 2016 - July 24, 2016
    Selz Foundation Gallery

    The Studio Art program at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, encourages students to find and develop their individual artistic voices. Wit…

  • How a Poem Begins – Lynne Avadenka and the Poet Rahel

    February 28, 2016 - July 24, 2016
    Popper Gallery

    In this personally expressive and historically resonant exhibition, contemporary printmaker and book artist Lynne Avadenka engages in a visual dialo…

  • Portraits of Memory – Works by Bernice Eisenstein

    February 7, 2016 - May 8, 2016
    Selz Foundation Gallery

    This installation by Toronto-based artist and author Bernice Eisenstein features a series of luminous, delicately drawn portraits that interweave im…

  • Modeling the Synagogue – From Dura to Touro

    July 12, 2015 - January 24, 2016
    Rosenberg & Winnick Galleries

    In conjunction with its foundation in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum commissioned ten scale models of historic synagogues. The models were construc…

  • Threatened Beauty

    September 6, 2015 - January 10, 2016
    Selz Foundation Gallery

    In this exhibition of 33 jewel-like, richly textured collage and watercolor works, Israel-based artist Andi Arnovitz draws on the profound artistic …

  • Fields of Dreams: Living Shmita in the Modern World

    June 21, 2015 - January 3, 2016
    Popper Gallery

    This exhibition explores the dynamic process through which the Biblical concept of Shmita was revived, debated and engaged by early settlers of the …