Chagall: Love, War, and Exile September 15, 2013 – February 2, 2014For the first time in the United States, artwork by Chagall from the 1930s and 1940s is gathered to reveal a lesser-known side of the artist. Beginning with the richly evocative paintings of his years in France, the exhibition illuminates an artist deeply responsive to the suffering inflicted by war and to his own exile and personal losses. By the late 1940s, Chagall returns to colorful, joy-filled work celebrating love. The exhibition includes approximately 31 paintings and 22 works on paper, as well as selected letters, poems, photos, and ephemera.more

threeASFOUR: MER KA BASeptember 15, 2013 – February 2, 2014The New York-based fashion collective threeASFOUR presents its latest project, MER KA BA, an otherworldly installation that fuses avant-garde couture, architecture, and video projections. Inspired by sacred geometry and tile patterns found in synagogues, churches, and mosques around the world, the exhibition brings together ancient motifs and contemporary design aesthetics to reflect the group’s hybrid identity and utopian vision. more

Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A RetrospectiveNovember 8, 2013 – March 23, 2014This first U.S. retrospective celebrates the career of one of the most influential living comic artists. The exhibition spans Spiegelman’s career from his early days in underground comix to provocative New Yorker covers and artistic collaborations in new media. Included are over three hundred preparatory sketches, preliminary and final drawings, plus prints and other ephemeral and documentary material.more

Masterpieces & Curiosities: A Medieval AquamanileNovember 8, 2013 – March 23, 2014This first Masterpieces & Curiosities installment will center around a rare Jewish aquamanile, a lion-shaped handwashing pitcher made of bronze and created in Germany in the twelfth century.more

Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings: Claire FontaineNovember 8, 2013 – April 20, 2014The first Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings lobby commission, Tears, by French artist Claire Fontaine, consists of nine neon signs suspended from the ceiling. Each reads “isle of tears” in a different language, a reference to the experience of immigrants passing through Ellis Island. more

Sights and Sounds: Global Film and VideoNovember 8, 2013 – February 5, 2016This long-term series offers a rotating selection of vigorous film and video works by contemporary artists from around the world – with a particular emphasis on work being made outside western Europe and the United States.more

Culture and Continuity: The Jewish JourneyPermanent ExhibitionThe acclaimed permanent exhibition tells the unfolding story of Jewish culture and identity through 800 works of art, archaeology, ceremonial objects, photographs, video and interactive media.more

Archaeology Zone: Discovering Treasures from Playgrounds to PalacesPermanent ExhibitionThis interactive exhibition will reveal to children what happens after archaeologists unearth artifacts, and bring them back to their labs for in-depth analysis. Children will take on the role of archaeologists as they search for clues about objects dating from ancient times to the present day.