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Contemporary Jewish Museum

Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob), "Self-portrait,"  c.1925. (Courtesy collection of Leslie Tonkonow and Klaus Ottman)
Posted inUncategorized

The many selves of gender-bending artist and Nazi resister Claude Cahun

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller February 1, 2019February 6, 2019
Contemporary Jewish Museum: An angular, modern annex designed by Daniel Libeskind joins the older brick building. (Photo/Courtesy CJM)
Posted inCulture

Architect Daniel Libeskind digs for meaning in his designs

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 22, 2019January 23, 2019
A woman’s coat with a richly decorated lining from
Bukhara, Uzbekistan, late 19th century
Posted inCulture

Dressing the diaspora: centuries of Jewish fashion at CJM

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller August 21, 2018August 22, 2018
heather gold on stage
Posted inComedy

Comedy by and for women who are ‘Hollywood old’

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol July 5, 2018July 10, 2018
Harvey Milk at Castro Camera in the mid-1970s (Photo/Courtesy S.F. Public Library)
Posted inLetters

Horrors on the border; Harvey Milk, frat bro; kudos to CJM

by J. Readers July 2, 2018July 2, 2018
Visitors looking at Janis Joplin’s clothing in the exhibition "Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution" at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in 2018
(File/Andria Lo)
Posted inArt, Culture

CJM turns 10: Is it contemporary, Jewish or a museum?

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 31, 2018June 26, 2019
Camp Ramah in Northern California opened in 2016 and is one of several recipients of new S.F. Federation grants for teen engagement programs. (Courtesy/Camp Ramah)
Posted inNews

S.F. Federation grants $2 million for teen programs

by J. Staff March 8, 2018March 9, 2018
Sheri Simons’s “After All” incorporates wood, soot and electronics (Photo/Oliver Hutton-Courtesy of the artist)
Posted inCulture

Machines are a blessing and a curse in work of California artists

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller February 19, 2018February 20, 2018
Photo illustration by Jacob Barrett, a 5th grader at Brandeis Day School in San Francisco
Posted inCulture

Kids find ‘heart of Shabbat’ in their artwork, now on display at CJM

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn January 25, 2018January 26, 2018
Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor, "golem in repose," 2017
Posted inOpinion

Art in ‘Remember the Sabbath’ is nice. But what does it have to do with the Sabbath?

by J. Readers December 1, 2017December 4, 2017

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