Your Guide for February
Handl un Vandl, published monthly, is your resource for Jewish arts and culture events around the world.
What better way to beat the cold than in the comfort of an art gallery or museum? Warm your soul as well as your body with some Jewish art at the exhibitions listed below. If you know of any current or upcoming exhibits or events related to both visual art and Jews, Jewishness, or Judaism, please drop us a line at getintouch@kukvinkl.com.
NEW YORK:
At Blade Study on the Lower East Side, Adrienne Greenblatt’s first solo exhibition, I wept at the tomb of my mother’s tongue, is currently on view. The show explores personal and systemic violence and ancestral memory through glass, sound, and sculptural assemblage rooted in Greenblatt’s Texan upbringing and mixed Salvadoran-Jewish heritage. The show is located at 17 Pike Street through February 8.
In Tribeca, Anat Ebgi presents Crisis Management, Gloria Klein’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring paintings from the late 1980s and early ’90s that explore repetition, modularity, and systemic order through her signature diagonal hatch marks. Klein’s works transform accumulations of discrete marks into complex, interlocking patterns that evoke urban density, social behavior, and the tension between order and chaos. Crisis Management will be on view at 372 Broadway through February 28.
Currently on view at Paula Cooper Gallery in Chelsea is Sol LeWitt: Works from the 1960s. The show charts the artist’s pivotal early decade, when he forged the core ideas—sequence, seriality, the interplay of word and image, and three-dimensional form—that shaped his conceptual practice. The exhibition follows LeWitt’s shift from figurative paintings influenced by Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies to the serial modular structures and wall drawings that defined his late-1960s breakthrough. The show is on view through February 28 at 534 West 21st Street.
Also in Chelsea, Feedback Loop, Alexis Rockman’s first solo exhibition with Jack Shainman Gallery, brings together new Forest Fire paintings, recent watercolors, and key works from across nearly five decades to spotlight his long-standing—and increasingly urgent—ecological concerns. Framed by seminal pieces like Forest Floor (1990) and Pioneers (2017), the show traces Rockman’s evolution from early ecosystem studies to stark depictions of climate-driven devastation. The show is on view through February 28 at 513 West 20th Street.
A Hug From the Art World presents Jon Burgerman’s first NYC solo exhibition, Hold On, It Won’t Last Long. The show features twenty new paintings made over the past three years, exploring themes of connection, emotional expression, and collective experience. The exhibit will be on view through March 7 at 515 West 19th Street.
Nearby at the Leo Baeck Institute, located in the Center for Jewish History, And That’s True Too: The Life and Work of Lore Segal explores the Jewish writer’s life, from her escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna on a Kindertransport, to her influential literary and teaching career in New York. Featuring elements of visual culture such as photographs alongside manuscripts, rare books, and archival materials, the exhibition traces how exile and displacement shaped Segal’s novels, stories, translations, and children’s books. Its title reflects her enduring commitment to nuance, multiplicity, and the moral and intellectual rigor that define her work. The exhibit will be on view through April 15.
Also at CJH is the American Jewish Historical Society’s exhibit The World in Front of Me: A Bill Aron Retrospective. The exhibit showcases the richness and diversity of Jewish life in the United States and beyond through photographer Bill Aron’s eyes. Co-curated by Aron himself and the American Jewish Historical Society, the exhibition features over 50 original photographs drawn from his extensive archive that span five decades. The show opens February 5 and will be on view through June 4.
At David Zwirner on the Upper East Side, Elisheva Biernoff: Elsewhere is currently on view. This marks the first East Coast solo exhibition of San Francisco–based artist Elisheva Biernoff, showcasing her meticulously rendered, intimately scaled paintings based on found photographs, along with new trompe l’oeil-inspired multimedia works. Spanning her career, the exhibition highlights her singular blend of painting, sculpture, and photography, as well as her ongoing fascination with the photograph as both image and physical artifact. The show is on view through February 28 at 34 East 69th Street.
On view from January 30 through February 3 at Sotheby’s new global headquarters at the Breuer building for Masters Week is the Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, which will be sold at live auction on February 5 at 2 pm EST. This newly restituted, early-fifteenth-century illustrated High Holiday prayerbook is one of the rarest Hebrew manuscripts ever to reach the market. Long held by the famed Rothschild family before its seizure by the Nazis and decades-long misattribution in the Austrian National Library, the Mahzor is both a masterpiece of medieval Jewish book arts and an artifact of historical survival. Estimated at $5-7 million, it marks the first appearance of a manuscript of its kind since the record-setting Luzzatto Mahzor sold in 2021.
Currently on view at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery, Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces is the first U.S. retrospective of the influential Chilean Jewish artist, tracing five decades of installations, videos, prints, photographs, and archival materials that probe power, public space, and feminist resistance. The exhibition highlights Rosenfeld’s position as a vital figure who merged art and activism before, during, and after the Pinochet dictatorship. The show is on view at 615 West 129th Street through March 15.
ACROSS THE US:
In Dallas, The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and the Nasher Sculpture Center present Roy Lichtenstein in the Studio, a joint showing of more than fifty works gifted by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, spotlighting the Jewish Pop Art pioneer through prints, drawings, maquettes, and sculptures that illuminate his inventive, behind-the-scenes process. Split across the two neighboring spaces, the presentations build on each institution’s strengths, ranging from Brushstroke sculptures at the DMA to maquettes and studies at the Nasher. Roy Lichtenstein in the Studio is on view through July 6.
INTERNATIONAL:
Opening February 12 in London, The National Portrait Gallery’s Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting will be the UK’s first museum show dedicated to the artist’s works on paper, tracing his lifelong fixation on the human face and figure through drawings, etchings, and a focused selection of paintings. Highlighting the dialogue between Freud’s works on paper and on canvas, the exhibition also debuts 12 newly acquired pieces from the artist’s estate, including the Gallery’s first Freud etchings and a portrait of Freud’s daughter, Bella. The exhibition will run through May 4.
Opening February 28 at the Museum Barberini Potsdam is Avantgarde: Max Liebermann und der Impressionismus in Deutschland. This exhibition (previously on view at the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, and featured in November 2025’s Handl un Vandl) surveys the rise of German Impressionism, a movement rooted in the vibrant color and lively brushwork that first emerged in 1860s France and later flourished in the German Empire. Bringing together more than 100 paintings from over 60 international lenders, it showcases major figures like Jewish artist Max Liebermann alongside contemporaries Lovis Corinth, Max Slevogt, and important women artists such as Sabine Lepsius, Dora Hitz, and Maria Slavona. The exhibition will close on June 7.
—Miranda Cooper