Explore Exhibition Highlights with the Curator for “Envisioning the Sacred: Modern Art from the Collection”

Join us in the Museum for a gallery talk about our latest exhibition, Envisioning the Sacred: Modern Art from the Collection, where the Chief Curator will discuss the inspiration for the show, how the works were selected, and provide deeper insights into the artists and their relationship to Jewish identity and traditions. Free and open to the public. R.S.V.P. art@riverspring.org or 718.581.1596. Photo I.D. required for entry to the campus.

About the exhibition

This exhibition features forty-nine prints, paintings, and drawings from the Museum’s permanent collection by twentieth and twenty-first-century artists working in a range of modernist styles—from figurative to abstract. These twenty-one artists explore stories and characters from the Bible, represent Jewish observances and traditions, or take inspiration from language and legend. Many of the artists express their Jewish identities and relationships to Jewish communal experience through their work. For some, mysticism and quests for spiritual connection are essential features of their art.

Image: Jacques Yankel (b. Paris, France, 1920–d. Labeaume, France, 2020), Torah I, 1972. Gouache on paper, 25 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. Gift of Diana Weinstock Roberts, 15.02.