Hannah Altman: Not a Circle but a Spiral at the Jewish Museum

Name: Hannah Altman: Not a Circle but a Spiral at the Jewish Museum
Start: 2026-09-18T04:00:00.000Z
End: 2027-02-08T04:59:00.000Z
Location: The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, Manhattan

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Hannah Altman's charged, folklore-tinged photographs hang beside Prague cathedral treasures in a new Jewish Museum focus show.

Hannah Altman photographs ordinary objects and places until they feel loaded with ritual and memory, often through Jewish folklore and performance. Several new works made for this show sit next to cathedral treasures and ceremonial objects in what she calls an ongoing dialogue about inheritance, ritual and reinvention. Photography lovers heading to Sacred Splendor should not skip this room.

What to expect

A compact third-floor gallery mixing Altman's staged, atmospheric photographs with historic ritual objects. Expect quiet, cinematic images rather than documentary shots.