The Hare with Amber Eyes
A major exhibition based on de Waal's celebrated family memoir opened in 2021 at The Jewish Museum in New York. Designed by award-winning architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, this immersive exhibition brought together pieces from the Ephrussi’s collections from across the world to examine the ways in which objects can function as storytellers, symbols of resilience and monuments of a family legacy.
The Ephrussis: Travel in Time
The Ephrussi Family Archive, donated to the Jewish Museum by the de Waal family, was put on display in this special exhibition along with 157 netsuke from Edmund de Waal's collection.
At the Jewish Museum, an exhibition as much about what’s missing as what’s there
The Ephrussis were among the wealthiest families in Europe. Almost everything was taken from them by the Nazis.
A Hare and an Inheritance, Once Hidden, at the Jewish Museum
Lovers of Edmund de Waal’s book can get close to that netsuke in a compelling show of objects that endured across a century of violence, discrimination and dispossession.
The Hare with Amber Eyes at the Jewish Museum — ghosts of a lost world
Edmund de Waal’s carved netsuke bring the words of his memoir hauntingly to life
Edmund de Waal’s carved netsuke bring the words of his memoir hauntingly to life
Tracing a Family History Through the Journey of a Tiny Figurine
Indeed, a central question for the exhibition is how one can represent absence. How can a visual exhibition display things that have been lost and destroyed alongside what has remained?
Elizabeth Diller Is Retelling Edmund de Waal’s Story — and Her Own
Edmund dug into his past. I didn’t. I couldn’t bear it.
New York’s Jewish Museum Makes an Exhibition of The Hare with Amber Eyes
The Jewish Museum brings a master’s touch to everything, and this explains why its Hare with Amber Eyes works as well as it does.