Your Guide for March
Handl un Vandl, published monthly, is your resource for Jewish arts and culture events around the world.
As the blackening piles of snow lining the streets of New York finally begin to melt, it’s easier and more pleasant to be out and about — so why not celebrate the dawn of spring by seeing some Jewish art? We’ve rounded up twenty exhibitions of the work of Jewish artists across the city, the country, and the world. 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
Downtown, Brenda Miller: Works from the 70s and 80s opens March 14 at Zürcher Gallery in New York City. The exhibition highlights the artist’s innovative sisal wall sculptures and her typewriting and rubber-stamped “Alphabet” works from the 1970s and 1980s, exploring repetition, process, and material in post-minimalist abstraction. Miller is a Bronx-born artist active in the women’s movement, and her work reflects a lifelong engagement with questions of materiality, time, and meaning. The show will be on view through May 5 at 33 Bleecker Street.
Doron Langberg: Landscapes opens March 6 at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, featuring a new group of large-scale landscape paintings by the acclaimed queer Israeli contemporary artist that explore how recent experiences over the last two years have reshaped their ideas about home, history, belonging, and atrocity. Through depictions of Yokneam, Israel, where they grew up; Drohobych, Ukraine, their father’s birthplace; and Fire Island, New York, Langberg uses landscape painting to explore personal history and political contemplation. The exhibition is on view through April 25 at 18 Wooster Street, with an opening reception taking place Friday, March 6, from 6-8 PM.
Danielle Durchslag: JEWESS opens at La MaMa Galleria on Friday, March 13 with a reception from 6-9 PM. The exhibition features three characters blending costume, performance, and visual art, including large-scale photographs, videos, and life-sized costumed figures that explore identity, ritual, and politics through fashion-inspired imagery. The show is interactive and designed for visitors to engage both visually and conceptually with Durchslag’s work. It will be on view at 47 Great Jones Street through April 12, Wednesday-Sunday, 12 PM-7 PM.
Elaine Reichek: Back Stitch is currently on view at Hoffman Donahue, presenting the artist’s textile-inflected work that revisits her early investigations into stitch, craft, and conceptual line, bringing together pieces and archival material that highlight how sewing techniques have shaped her practice since the 1970s. The exhibition showcases how the back stitch—both literally and metaphorically—serves as a creative and structural device in Reichek’s work, reinforcing ideas about repetition, memory, and material history. It is on view through April 4 at 99 Bowery, 2nd Floor.
Mira Schor: Figures of Speech is currently on view at Lyles & King in an exhibition that juxtaposes works that Schor created in 1985-87 with later works from 2025-26. Her paintings in the exhibition play with light, verticality, and the nature of speech, particularly that which is banned by the current US government. Figures of Speech runs through March 28 at 19 Henry Street (gallery hours Tuesday–Saturday).
Judy Glantzman: Playing with Dolls is currently on view at P·P·O·W Gallery, featuring paintings and ceramic works from 2000 to 2025 that engage the unconscious with energetic color, expressive imagery, and emotionally raw compositions of self-portraits and disembodied forms. Glantzman, a fixture of the 1980s East Village scene and longtime educator, blends layered, frenetic surfaces with symbolic figures and an operatic installation of hand-built ceramic heads and hands that blur the line between painting and sculpture. It is on view Tuesday–Saturday, 11 AM-6 PM through March 14 at 390 Broadway, 2nd Floor.
In Chelsea, Lisa Edelstein: DAVKA opens at A Hug From the Art World gallery on Thursday, March 12, 2026, with an opening reception from 6–8 PM. The exhibition features fifteen new paintings in watercolor that transform old family photographs into vivid, intimate scenes reflecting Edelstein’s Jewish family history and diasporic experience. It will be on view Tuesday through Saturday, 10 AM – 6 PM, through April 25th at 515 West 19th Street.
Also a project of A Hug From the Art World, Melissa Stern: The Talking Cure opens March 5 with a reception from 6–8 PM. The exhibition presents twelve off-balance humanoid ceramic sculptures and accompanying drawings, each paired with audio monologues written by writers and performed by actors, creating an interactive storytelling experience. It will be on view Tuesday through Saturday, 10 AM – 6 PM, through April 18th at 112 Tenth Avenue.
Anish Kapoor: Mirror Works is currently on view at Lisson Gallery, featuring a focused presentation of the artist’s reflective stainless‑steel and mirror sculptures created between 2010 and the present that challenge perception and engage viewers in immersive spatial experiences. The works play with scale, surface, and light, turning the gallery environment into a shifting field where reflections, distortions, and voids invite interaction and exploration. This exhibition follows Kapoor’s recent museum presentation at The Jewish Museum and coincides with other 2026 projects by the artist around the world. It is on view through April 11 at 504 West 24th Street.
You Should’ve Been There, a group exhibition curated by Aaron Levi Garvey, is currently on view at Albertz Benda and explores the fluid, unreliable, and often poetic nature of memory through works by a diverse group of contemporary artists that investigate how recollections can illuminate and obscure lived experience. The show brings together painting, sculpture, and mixed-media works that reflect on the creative processes of remembering, how personal and collective histories intertwine, and the ways emotion and time reshape what we recall. It is located at 515 West 26th Street, Floor 1, and closes April 4.
In Midtown, Anna Walinska and Her Circle is currently on view at the Art Students League of New York’s Lobby Gallery. The show highlights a range of works by Anna Walinska, a pioneering Jewish painter, teacher, and gallerist, featuring pieces in drawing, collage, painting, portraiture, and abstraction. It also includes works by fellow Art Students League artists who influenced or were influenced by her, placing her work in the context of her artistic circle. The exhibit is on view until May 24 at 215 West 57th Street.
Just a few avenues east, Barbara Zucker: Sculptures and Works on Paper is currently on view at Duane Thomas Gallery. The exhibition presents sculptures and works on paper exploring breastfeeding, labor, care, and the female body, many of which are featured in Zucker’s new book, The Second Oldest Profession: The Wet Nurse, Revered and Reviled, highlighting the connection between her artistic practice and scholarly research. The exhibition, located at 32 East 57th Street, closes on March 14.
On the Upper East Side, Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds will open March 20 and remain on view through July 26 at The Jewish Museum. This exhibition is the first U.S. museum show to focus on the late work of Paul Klee, created during the last decade of his life as he faced political upheaval and personal challenges. Featuring about 100 paintings and drawings, the exhibition explores how Klee’s art evolved in response to the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, comparing and contrasting his lesser-known later works with highlights from his career.
ACROSS THE US
Just across the river, See It Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection is currently on view at the Montclair Art Museum, bringing together works from more than five decades of works amassed by longtime collectors Ann and Mel Schaffer. The exhibition features a wide range of contemporary art across media, including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and conceptual works by major figures. It is on view through June 28.
Meanwhile in the Midwest, Barbara Nessim: My Compass Is the Line opens March 5 at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago. The exhibition is the pioneering artist, commercial illustrator, and early computer art innovator’s first solo museum show in Chicago and surveys a wide range of her work, including paintings, drawings, computer art prints, a site-specific installation, and her sketchbooks, which she calls her “forever books” that reveal her creative process. The exhibit closes on June 21.
Architects of Being: Louise Nevelson and Esphyr Slobodkina is currently on view at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA. The exhibition brings together works by two pioneering mid-20th-century female artists—sculptor Louise Nevelson and painter Esphyr Slobodkina—in dialogue for the first time, showing how both constructed bold artistic identities amid abstraction, assemblage, and personal style. Featuring approximately 70 sculptures, paintings, collages, assemblage constructions, and garments, the show highlights their respective approaches and shared experiences as Jewish immigrant women forging paths in a male-dominated art world. It will be on view through May 31.
In Louisiana, Andy Warhol: Plus One is currently on view as part of Hilliard Art Museum’s spring season of exhibitions centered on Pop Art and visual culture, featuring photographic and screenprint works by Andy Warhol that reflect on intimacy and the way companions shape our lives. The show is part of a larger Spring Awake program that also pairs Warhol’s work with contemporary art by Jewish artist Rachel Libeskind and immersive installation Nervescape XI by Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter, inviting visitors to explore how Pop Art strategies resonate in today’s visual world. It is on view through August 15 on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, with regular hours Tuesday–Saturday.
Boris Lurie: Nothing To Do But To Try is currently on view at Holocaust Museum Houston’s Josef and Edith Mincberg Gallery, presenting a powerful portrait of artist, writer, and Holocaust survivor Boris Lurie through his earliest works, including pieces from his War Series alongside objects and ephemera from his personal archive that reflect his experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust. The exhibition shares Lurie’s journey of trauma, survival, and artistic expression, illustrating how his creative work became a means of processing haunting memories and the lifelong quest for freedom. It will be on view until July 19.
Arlene Shechet: Big Sister is currently on view at Pace Gallery Los Angeles. The vibrant painted-aluminum sculpture Big Sister (2025) has been installed in the courtyard. The large-scale piece exemplifies Shechet’s inventive approach to form and material, with gravity-defying structures that invite viewers to walk around and engage with the work’s expressive contradictions. The show will be on view through June 6.
ACROSS THE WORLD
At Cristea Roberts Gallery in London, Sol LeWitt: The Location of Lines: The Prints of Sol LeWitt 1970–2005 presents a focused retrospective of over twenty graphic works by the influential Jewish American artist that explore how printmaking became central to his conceptual practice from the 1970s through 2005. The show highlights a range of woodcuts, screenprints, linocuts, etchings, and embossed works that reveal LeWitt’s systematic use of line, repetition, and geometric form across decades of printmaking. It is on view through April 16.
—Miranda Cooper