A handful of Yeshiva University’s most talented student exhibited their artwork at the YU Museum on March 22 when the University held a celebration of student and faculty creativity at the venue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. It was the first time student work was on display there.
Yeshiva University Museum Announces Panel Discussion, To Feature David Stern Exhibit
Yeshiva University Museum is pleased to announce a panel discussion “Figuration, Abstraction and the Spiritual” featuring the exhibition “David Stern: The American Years 1995-2008” on November 13, 2008 at 6:30 pm. The curator of the traveling exhibition, Karen Wilkin, will introduce and moderate a panel including the artist, David Stern, and the art critic Lance Esplund, as well as noted New York artists Archie Rand and Jill Nathanson. The panel will discuss the visual languages inventive present day artists employ to embody spiritual content in wholly contemporary terms.
Students Build Ties with Washington Heights Community on Visit to Exhibit of Jewish Refugees in the Dominican Republic
A group of Yeshiva College students and Dominican high school students from the neighborhood of Washington Heights discovered some unexpected common ground on a recent visit to “Sosúa: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic,” an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park, New York City.
Einstein Researchers Find That Genes Exhibit ‘Pulses’ of Activity
Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have observed for the first time that gene expression can occur in the form of discrete “pulses” of gene activity.
Furst Hall Lobby Exhibit Commemorates 800th Anniversary of Maimonides’ Death
Yeshiva University’s Jacob E. Safra Institute of Sephardic Studies is commemorating the 800th anniversary of the death of Moses Maimonides—legendary Talmudist, philosopher, and physician—with a display of artifacts and books in the lobby of Furst Hall on the Wilf Campus.
Yeshiva University Museum Receives Two Major Grants to Fund Upcoming Exhibit
Yeshiva University Museum (YUM) has been awarded two major grants that will fund an upcoming exhibit, “A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry.”
Stern Celebrates Rich Legacy in Museum Exhibit
As Stern College for Women celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, the Yeshiva University Museum (YUM) is marking the school’s milestone with an exhibit that highlights its growth and achievements. “Five Decades. One Dream,” the history of YU’s undergraduate women’s college through photos and artifacts, opens October 21 and will run at YUM until January 9, 2005.
New Exhibit at Gottesman Library Commemorates 350th Annniversary of Jewish Immigration to America
Some 31 books chronicling early American Jewish life now form an exhibit at Yeshiva University’s Mendel Gottesman Library, on the Wilf Campus, that commemorates 350 years of Jewish immigration.