Museum Talks and Tours

 

Kehinde Wiley. Alios Itzhak. 2011.

MUSEUM TOURS
 
Exhibition and Permanent Collection Tours
Zoom tours of special exhibitions past and present and highlights from the stunning permanent collection of the Jewish Museum. Explore the intersection of art with Jewish history and culture.

For a digital tour with Rena, please contact Frazier at the museum.

Tours include:
  • Scenes: Highlights of the Permanent Collection
  • The Sassoons, global empire and art collections to match
  • Chagall: Love, War, and Exile about his exile in New York
  • Edith Halpert, about a New York art dealer who shaped the modern art world
  • Hare with Amber Eyes, about the Ephrussi family and their art collections and diaspora
  • Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art
  • Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry, unique, delightful voice in American art
  • Tissot and the Bible
  • New York, 1962-64
  • Marta Minujín and Arte! Arte! Arte!
  • New! Foremothers: Women Artists of the Jewish Museum
    From profound to playful,  works by women artists in the Jewish Museum’s collection reveal the complexity of the Jewish experience. These 20th- and 21st- century artists tackle the challenges faced by Jewish immigrants, address questions of identity, connect to Jewish heritage, explore their world with a camera, and push against traditional norms with their feminist successes.
1109 5th Ave, enter on 92nd St
New York, NY 10128
212-423-3200
 
Contact Rena to learn more! And check out the tour page at the Jewish Museum!
 
 
Plus – Now Digital! Tours of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
 

Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836

Private Tours, American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art:
 
Tour #1
Shaping the American Identity
Paintings often tell more complex stories than we see at first glance. This tour takes a deep dive with works that portray who we were and have become as Americans.
 
 
  • Discover what clothing in Colonial portraits says about the sitter and the formation of a new nation
  • Read landscapes to explore what they reveal about the future of America
  • Pull apart American myths
  • Uncover the signs of trouble around the Civil War
  • Laugh over coded paintings about the changing roles of men and women in the 19th century

Tour #2
American Women’s Lives

John Singleton Copley, Mrs. John Winthrop, 1773

What was daily life like for American women during the Colonial period? How did that change with the growth of the marketplace economy? How did roles evolve, so that women’s artists voices were added to American painting?

By exploring the paintings in the American Wing and the Modern and Contemporary galleries, we learn how women navigated societal expectations with their own passions and drives. The results are surprising, delightful, and insightful. Come explore the stories told and learn whether you, too, are a New Woman.

 

“This was the best tour—Rena is a lot of fun; great stories, terrific knowledge, never a dull moment. I’ll never look at this art the same way again. People all over the museum wanted to listen in. Highly recommend.” Nora M., February 2019

Contact Rena for more information and scheduled tour dates today!