The Museum of Biblical Art celebrates and interprets art related to the Bible and its cultural legacy in Jewish and Christian traditions through exhibitions, education and scholarship.
Information
- Location:
- New York, NY, 10023
- Phone:
- 212-408-1500
- Tues - Wed:
- 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
- Thurs:
- 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Fri - Sun:
- 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Events
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- Re...Re-Cycle, Re-Create, Re-I...
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Thursday, June 18 at 6:00pm - The Altar and the Screen: Amer...
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Thursday, May 7 at 6:30pm - Lights, Camera, Action! Spring...
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Sunday, May 3 at 5:00pm - Hearing the Sacred: From the M...
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Saturday, April 4 at 3:00pm - Salomé
Museum of Biblical Art, first floor
Thursday, April 2 at 6:00pm - Hearing the Sacred: From the M...
Museum of Biblical Art - 2nd Fl
Saturday, January 17 at 3:00pm - MOBIA Lecture: Chagall's Cruci...
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Thursday, December 11 at 6:30pm - Chagall Lecture Series: Chagal...
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Thursday, December 4 at 6:30pm - Concert: "Quartet for the End ...
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Saturday, November 8 at 3:00pm - MOBIA Lecture: Bella Meyer
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Thursday, October 23 at 6:30pm
Notes
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- Closed for Installation 11:20am May 19
- Recession Special! 12:34pm Apr 21|1 Comment
- Current Exhibition: Reel Religion, A Century of the Bible and Film 11:52am Mar 12
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Opening Reception!
Born In Cameroon and educated in France, NYC-based artists Vickie Fremont explores the African tradition of creating art objects from previously used materials. Her newest pro...
Host:The Museum of Biblical Art
Time:6:00PM Thursday, June 18th
Location:Museum of Biblical Art


The Museum of Biblical Art "Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustration in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth-Century" opens today! Stay tuned for information about all of the wonderful events we have in store from now until September 27th.


Hello everybody! "Reel Religion: A Century of the Bible and Film" has returned to its crates, the painters are arriving, and the museum is getting ready for yet another wonderful metamorphosis...


The Museum of Biblical Art We're closed for installation Until June 5th. Please join us from June 5th - September 27th, 2009 for "Scripture For the Eyes: Bible Illustration in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth Century."


Hello friends of MOBIA! Have you been meaning to check out our current exhibition, but weren't sure if it would fit in with your thrifty lifestyle? Well, good news! From now until May 17th, Sundays at MOBIA are totally free...


In this multi-media presentation, S. Brent Plate, Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College and managing editor of "Material Religion: The Journal ...
Host:The Museum of Biblical Art
Time:6:30PM Thursday, May 7th
Location:Museum of Biblical Art


Free!!
Have you been bitten by the acting bug? Join MOBIA for a stellar event in celebration of the exhibition. Star in your own film still, explore the art of silk-screening and cre...
Host:The Museum of Biblical Art
Time:5:00PM Sunday, May 3rd
Location:Museum of Biblical Art


Reel Religion features over 80 rare vintage movie posters and original costumes worn by Hollywood screen stars as well as related film ephemera...


The Allsar Quartet presents a tribute to the composers of the soundtracks of the epic biblical films featured in the exhibition. Highlights of the program include string quart...
Host:The Museum of Biblical Art
Time:3:00PM Saturday, April 4th
Location:Museum of Biblical Art


Salomé is an iconic film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's tale of savagery and desire, inspired by the Biblical characters King Herod and his teenaged daughter. The remarkable co...
Host:The Museum of Biblical Art
Time:6:00PM Thursday, April 2nd
Location:Museum of Biblical Art, first floor


Chagall-inspired concert!
Trio Eos performs a program of sacred repertoire composed by contemporaries of Marc Chagall in turn-of-the-century Paris, such as Gounod, Duruflé, Poulenc, and Britten. The ...
Host:The Museum of Biblical Art
Time:3:00PM Saturday, January 17th
Location:Museum of Biblical Art - 2nd Fl


The Museum of Biblical Art
MOBIA will be closed for the holidays on the following dates:
We will be closing at 4pm on Wednesday, December 24.
We will be closed on Thursday, December 25 and Friday, December 26.
We will be closed on Thursday, January 1.
We hope to see you soon, and happy holidays!
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Two Points of View
Art historians Tom Freudenheim and Ena Heller interpret the personal iconography of Chagall's Crucifixions in light of the artist's Jewish childhood in Russia, the experience ...
Host:The Museum of Biblical Art
Time:6:30PM Thursday, December 11th
Location:Museum of Biblical Art


Jean Bloch Rosensaft, Director of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum in New York, will discuss Chagall's unique interpretations of biblical narrative...
Host:The Museum of Biblical Art
Time:6:30PM Thursday, December 4th
Location:Museum of Biblical Art


Members of the Allsar Quartet play Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, a work that was written and premiered during World War II in a German camp where Messiaen wa...
Host:The Museum of Biblical Art
Time:3:00PM Saturday, November 8th
Location:Museum of Biblical Art


Chagall's granddaughter speaks at MOBIA
Bella Meyer, noted New York City creator of floral environments and granddaughter of Marc Chagall, will give a lecture at MOBIA in conjunction with the Museum's current exhibi...
Host:The Museum of Biblical Art
Time:6:30PM Thursday, October 23rd
Location:Museum of Biblical Art


Colin Eisler from IFA
Colin Eisler, Robert Lehman Professor of Fine Arts at New York University, will focus on Dürer's drawing of the Madonna and Child surrounded by animals, discussing the artist'...
Host:The Museum of Biblical Art
Time:6:30PM Thursday, September 18th
Location:Museum of Biblical Art


Dürer's engraving of "Adam and Eve", also known as "The Fall of Man", is admired for its technical mastery and representation of paradisiacal beauty. Despite these qualities, ...
Host:The Museum of Biblical Art
Time:6:30PM Thursday, September 4th
Location:Museum of Biblical Art




















The Museum of Biblical Art Not to brag, but...have you seen Ken Johnson's fantastic review of "Scripture for the Eyes" in the New York Times? Check it out!