Past Exhibitions
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City of Gold, Bronze and Light: Jerusalem between Word and Image
April 23, 2017 - July 30, 2017
Rosenberg & Winnick GalleriesJerusalem 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…
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Uncommon Threads: Clothing & Textiles from the YU Museum Collection
December 7, 2016 - April 30, 2017
Selz Foundation GalleryOur ancestors used clothing and textiles to beautify their synagogues, their tables and themselves on Shabbat and holidays as well as important life…
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Hugh Mesibov's Book of Job Mural
September 28, 2016 - March 12, 2017
Popper GalleryIn 1969, Temple Beth El in Spring Valley commissioned a huge mural illustrating the Biblical account of the suffering and redemption of Job. The Rab…
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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…
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Gray Matter: Stern Senior Show
May 25, 2016 - July 24, 2016
Selz Foundation GalleryThe Studio Art program at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, encourages students to find and develop their individual artistic voices. Wit…
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How a Poem Begins – Lynne Avadenka and the Poet Rahel
February 28, 2016 - July 24, 2016
Popper GalleryIn this personally expressive and historically resonant exhibition, contemporary printmaker and book artist Lynne Avadenka engages in a visual dialo…
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Portraits of Memory – Works by Bernice Eisenstein
February 7, 2016 - May 8, 2016
Selz Foundation GalleryThis installation by Toronto-based artist and author Bernice Eisenstein features a series of luminous, delicately drawn portraits that interweave im…
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Modeling the Synagogue – From Dura to Touro
July 12, 2015 - January 24, 2016
Rosenberg & Winnick GalleriesIn conjunction with its foundation in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum commissioned ten scale models of historic synagogues. The models were construc…
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Threatened Beauty
September 6, 2015 - January 10, 2016
Selz Foundation GalleryIn this exhibition of 33 jewel-like, richly textured collage and watercolor works, Israel-based artist Andi Arnovitz draws on the profound artistic …
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Fields of Dreams: Living Shmita in the Modern World
June 21, 2015 - January 3, 2016
Popper GalleryThis exhibition explores the dynamic process through which the Biblical concept of Shmita was revived, debated and engaged by early settlers of the …