The Jewish Museum To Remain Open Today

Continuing its popular tradition, The Jewish Museum will be open on Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25 from 11 am to 4:30 pm. On a day when many families are looking for something special to do, The Jewish Museum offers an eagerly anticipated, fun-filled way to spend the day. December 25 is one of The Jewish Museum’s busiest days of the year. New this year are three ticketed concerts for families starring The Macaroons at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm. Concert tickets are $20 per adult, $15 per child.

Nearly one hundred Hanukkah lamps will be on view throughout the Museum, of them thirty-three menorahs featured in An Artist Remembers: Hanukkah Lamps Selected by Maurice Sendak. All The Jewish Museum’s exhibition galleries will be open that day, including The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats and The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951.
Admission to The Jewish Museum on December 25 is $12 for adults; $10 for senior citizens; $7.50 for students; and FREE for children under 12.

DECEMBER 25 AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM

FAMILY ACTIVITIES

11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm – THREE SHOWS!
FAMILY CONCERT: THE MACAROONS
Families can enjoy a guitar-based sound that recalls everything from the Kinks to Queen to the Shins. The Macaroons will perform such songs as Hurry Up And Light The Candle and Mezuzah.
A spinoff from the acclaimed indie rock band, The LeeVees, The Macaroons have delighted children and families in synagogues, JCCs, and concert venues across the country. Their first album, Let’s Go Coconuts, was released in 2010.

Tickets: $20 per adult; $15 per child; $17 adult Jewish Museum family level member;
$13 child Jewish Museum family level member

All day
FAMILY GALLERY GUIDE GIFT BAGS
The first 500 kids to visit the Museum on December 25 will receive a special bag with guides to the exhibitions, An Artist Remembers: Hanukkah Lamps Selected by Maurice Sendak, The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats and The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951, and to Hanukkah lamps on view in the Museum’s permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey. Children will also receive a pad and pencil to sketch in the galleries, and Ezra Jack Keats bookmarks.

EXHIBITION FOR FAMILIES

ARCHAEOLOGY ZONE: DISCOVERING TREASURES FROM PLAYGROUNDS TO PALACES
In Archaeology Zone: Discovering Treasures from Playgrounds to Palaces, an engaging and thoroughly interactive experience, children become archaeologists as they search for clues about ancient and modern objects. Visitors discover what happens after archaeologists unearth artifacts and bring them back to their labs for in-depth analysis.

EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW DECEMBER 25

THE SNOWY DAY AND THE ART OF Ezra Jack Keats
The first major United States exhibition to pay tribute to award-winning author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983), whose beloved children’s books include Whistle for Willie (1964), Peter’s Chair (1967), and The Snowy Day (1962). Published at the height of the American civil-rights movement and winner of the prestigious Caldecott Medal, The Snowy Day became a milestone, featuring the first African-American protagonist in a full-color picture book. The exhibition features over 80 original works by the artist, from preliminary sketches and dummy books, to final paintings and collages.

AN ARTIST REMEMBERS: HANUKKAH LAMPS SELECTED BY Maurice Sendak
An Artist Remembers features thirty-three Hanukkah lamps of varied eras and styles, chosen by renowned author and illustrator Maurice Sendak from The Jewish Museum’s extensive collection. This highly personal selection of lamps, many never before exhibited, echoes the quality of line and depth of emotion that define Sendak’s work. This exhibition also includes two original drawings for Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories (1966) and In Grandpa’s House (1985), and audio excerpts of a conversation between Maurice Sendak and Jewish Museum curators Susan Braunstein and Claudia Nahson recorded as he picked out the works for the exhibition.

THE RADICAL CAMERA: NEW YORK’S PHOTO LEAGUE, 1936 – 1951
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city life from the end of the Great Depression to the start of the Cold War. Their focus centered on the streets, sidewalks and subways of New York City. Nearly 150 works by some of the most noted 20th-century photographers, including Berenice Abbott, Sid Grossman, Lisette Model, Aaron Siskind, Paul Strand, and Weegee are on view.

JEM COHEN: NYC WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
In NYC Weights and Measures (2006; 6 min. 15 sec.), Jem Cohen chronicles a city that exudes noise and bustle, balanced with beauty and tranquility. A ticker-tape parade, subway riders’ daily commute, and a man pausing for a cigarette all become moments of observation and reflection. Overlaid with an intricate soundscape that includes fragments of street music, the film evokes the city’s fast-paced rhythms juxtaposed with quieter, more contemplative moments.

CULTURE AND CONTINUITY: THE JEWISH JOURNEY
This vibrant permanent exhibition on the Jewish experience explores 4,000 years of art and culture from all over the world with over 1,000 works of art, antiquities, and media. Culture and Continuity features a display of 59 Hanukkah lamps from its renowned collection. Visitors to The Jewish Museum enjoy an unique opportunity to sample selections from the largest, finest and most comprehensive collection of Hanukkah lamps in the world. Lamps on view come from Austria, Australia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, India, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Morocco, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States, and cover three centuries of artistic production. Many of the lamps are made from such traditional materials as copper, silver, and brass, but materials used also include ceramic, Steel Boilerplate, and one using souvenir Statues of Liberty. Examples of the two traditional forms of Hanukkah lamps - the menorah consisting of eight branches reaching upward from a central stem; and the bench lamp, a row of eight lights arranged horizontally with an attached backplate - are included in the exhibition, along with unusual contemporary lamps.

About The Jewish Museum

Widely admired for its exhibitions and collections that inspire people of all backgrounds, The Jewish Museum is one of the world’s preeminent institutions devoted to exploring the intersection of art and Jewish culture from ancient to modern times. The Jewish Museum was established in 1904, when Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 ceremonial art objects to The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as the core of a museum collection. Today, the Museum maintains a collection of 26,000 objects – paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media. The collection is among the three largest of its kind in the world and is distinguished by its breadth and quality. It is showcased in the vibrant, two-floor permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, examining the Jewish experience as it has evolved from antiquity to the present. The Jewish Museum organizes a diverse schedule of internationally acclaimed and award-winning temporary exhibitions as well as broad-based programs for families, adults, and school groups.

General Information

For general information on The Jewish Museum, the public may visit the Museum’s Web site at http://www.thejewishmuseum.org or call 212.423.3200. The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

The Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Education’s school and family programs are supported by endowed funds established by the Bronfman Family, the Muriel and William Rand Fund, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Helena Rubinstein Foundation, Rosalie Klein Adolf, the Kekst Family, and Mrs. Ida C. Schwartz in memory of Mr. Bernard S. Schwartz. We thank the following for their generosity: The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, the Kekst Family, Capital One, MetLife Foundation, J.E. and Z.B. Butler Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc., Alpern Family Foundation, The Pumpkin Foundation at the request of Joseph H. and Carol F. Reich, Newman’s Own Foundation, Epstein Teicher Philanthropies, Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Jewish Museum Volunteer Organization, and other donors. We gratefully acknowledge public support from: New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick, Council Member Brad Lander, Council Member Mark Weprin, and other City Council Members. Access programming is made possible through the generosity of the J.E. and Z.B. Butler Foundation and Newman’s Own Foundation.

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