Visit: Jews and Midcentury Modernism

Ruth Adler Schnee, "Cuneiforms" (1947-48). Courtesy Contemporary Jewish Museum.

A new exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism focuses on the work of Jewish designers, architects, patrons, and merchants in the creation of the postwar domestic landscape. Curated by Donald Albrecht, the exhibition features work ranging from textiles to photography, graphics to influential developments like the Eichler homes. It should offer a different lens on work that has grown familiar, offering a new interpretation of the networks of schools, museums and corporations that employed Jewish emigres from Europe after WW2.