| Norman Kleeblatt has been The Jewish Museum's Susan and Elihu Rose Curator of Fine Arts since 1981. Included among the exhibitions Mr. Kleeblatt organized are The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth and Justice (1987), Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900-1945 (1991), and Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional Identities (1996)—an exhibition of works by contemporary American artists who confronted Jewish stereotypes head on as they probed issues of assimilation. Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art, Mr. Kleeblatt's groundbreaking exhibition of 2002, highlighted the work of 13 international artists who appropriate Nazi imagery as a commentary on contemporary values. He is currently working on an exhibition that examines the competitive impact of the critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg on the emergence of Abstract Expressionism in America. |