Portrait of Wally (2012, 90 min, Dir. Andrew Shea) Screening with screenwriter/producer David D’Arcy The film traces the history of Egon Schiele’s iconic 1912 painting from its origins as a gesture of affection toward his young lover to the theft of the painting from Lea Bondi to its surprise resurfacing when it turns up […]
Join Magnes staff for a guided tour of current exhibitions. Lunchtime Tours are offered on the first Thursday of each month through May.
Rita Kuhn reads from her book Broken Glass, Broken Lives Rita Kuhn lived her childhood and adolescence in Hitler’s Berlin, surviving a cycle of evergrowing dangers for her, her family, and her friends. The people she loved disappeared from one day to the next and left no messages, no farewells, no forwarding addresses. In Broken Glass, Broken […]
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life The Bancroft Library with the Center for Jewish Studies and the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies cordially invite you to an opening reception for Gourmet Ghettos Modern Food Rituals A new exhibition exploring eating, identity and activism in Jewish life and beyond Wednesday, September […]
The Magnes is proud to inaugurate its series of pop-up lunchtime exhibitions with a feature presentation by celebrated author, reporter and longtime Magnes supporter, Frances Dinkelspiel. The exhibition will feature Toby Rosenthal's painting, Portrait of Two Women at a Piano (San Francisco, 1872), which portrays members of the Dinkelspiel family in 19th-century San Francisco. Rosenthal (1848-1917) is considered […]
The Magnes is excited to welcome the Jerusalem-born musician, artistic director, and community organizer, Yair Harel to its weekly lunchtime PopUp Exhibition Series. His performance will inaugurate his residency at The Magnes this Fall. Yair Harel will perform a selection of Hebrew liturgical poems (piyyutim) about the sounding of the shofar horn, according to the […]
Homecoming Weekend is UC Berkeley's largest annual gathering welcoming thousands of alumni, parents, and students to campus for three days of fun. Festivities include alumni parties, family events, the Bear Affair BBQ, faculty seminars, campus tours, museum and library open houses, the Homecoming football game, and more. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life marks this […]
Homecoming Weekend is UC Berkeley's largest annual gathering welcoming thousands of alumni, parents, and students to campus for three days of fun. Festivities include alumni parties, family events, the Bear Affair BBQ, faculty seminars, campus tours, museum and library open houses, the Homecoming football game, and more. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life marks this […]
Homecoming Weekend is UC Berkeley's largest annual gathering welcoming thousands of alumni, parents, and students to campus for three days of fun. Festivities include alumni parties, family events, the Bear Affair BBQ, faculty seminars, campus tours, museum and library open houses, the Homecoming football game, and more. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life marks this […]
The Magnes is proud to continue its series of pop-up lunchtime exhibitions with a feature presentation by Andrea Sinn, who is the Visiting Professor in the History Department at UC Berkeley. Professor Sinn is an expert on German, Jewish and migrations history. She was a fellow of the German National Merit Foundation and is the […]
Join us for an exciting discussion about the rescue of Jewish cultural property looted by the Nazis across Europe, centering upon the photographs and letters (1945-1946) of Koppel Pinson kept in The Magnes Collection. Nazi era looted books and other items were processed after WWII at the Offenbach Archival Depot. The mission of the U.S. Monuments […]
Kathryn Winter reads from her book Katarina Kathryn Winter was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, before the the start of the Second World War. Her father left for England in the late 1930s, hoping to get his family out of Czechoslovakia, but did not succeed. Kathryn survived the war hiding in barns, farms, an orphanage, and wandering […]
