Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale

Open House New York "Fantastical Realities" Exhibition Tour with Artists and Curator

As part of Open House New York, join us for a special tour and Q&A with the senior curator and artists in conjunction with the exhibition, "Fantastical Realities: Sandra Caplan, Maya Ciarrocchi, and Ray Ciarrocchi," the first time two generations of the Ciarrocchi-Caplan family will exhibit together. Ray Ciarrocchi (b. 1933) focuses on landscape, Sandra Caplan (b. 1936) on still life, and Maya Ciarrocchi (b. 1967) works across disciplines.

Fantastical Realities: Sandra Caplan, Maya Ciarrocchi, and Ray Ciarrocchi

Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition, Fantastical Realities: Sandra Caplan, Maya Ciarrocchi, and Ray Ciarrocchi, which will be on view from September 7, 2025 through January 11, 2026. A reception and talk with the artists will take place on Sunday, September 14, at 1:30 p.m. As part of Open House New York, a special exhibition tour will take place on Sunday, October 19, at 1:30 p.m. R.S.V.P. 718.581.1596 or art@riverspring.org. Admission to the Museum is always free. Photo I.D.

Nature’s Persistence: Recent Work by Shelley Haven

Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition, Nature’s Persistence: Recent Work by Shelley Haven, which will be on view from March 2 through June 29, 2025. A reception and artist’s talk will be held on Sunday, May 4, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. The Museum is located at 5901 Palisade Avenue in the Riverdale neighborhood of The Bronx, and is free and open to the public. R.S.V.P. for the May 4 reception at 718.581.1596 or art@riverspring.org. Photo I.D. required for admission.

Aspects of Appearance: Portraits from the Collection in Context

Aspects of Appearance: Portraits from the Collection in Context features thirty-one works in a range of media by twenty-seven artists. The artworks in this exhibition span more than a century, from William Auerbach-Levy’s (b. Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire, now Brest, Belarus, 1889–d. Ossining, New York, 1964) rigorously naturalistic depictions of types encountered on New York’s Lower East Side to Maryna Bilak’s (b. Rakhiv, Ukraine, 1984) hauntingly beautiful, contemporary portrait of her aging mother-in-law.

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