Remembrance and Renewal: American Artists and the Holocaust, 1940-1970
September 4 - December 14, 2025
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art
Indiana University
1133 East 7th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Remembrance and Renewal will be the first exhibition to examine the impact of the Holocaust on the development of midcentury American art. It will bring together approximately sixty works of art from collections nationwide, featuring a wide range of aesthetic approaches by artists both canonical and little known.
An accompanying catalogue will be published by Yale University Press.
A half day symposium titled Beyond Jewish Museums: Presenting Jewish Art and Experience in American Art Museums will be held Monday, November 17 from 1:30 - 6:00 PM.
Featured speakers include:
Sean P. Burrus, Curator of Judaic Art, North Carolina Museum of Art
Juliana Ochs Dweck, Chief Curator, Princeton University Art Museum
Rachel Spiegel Gerstein, Co-Curator, Jewish Art & Culture Research Project at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Jennifer McComas, Curator of European and American Art, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Simona di Nepi, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Curator of Judaica, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston