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Ben Uri Gallery’, The Art Museum for Everyone incorporating The London Jewish Museum of Art is currently sited at 108a Boundary Road, off the famous Abbey Road in St John’s Wood, London, NW8 0RH. It is the only museum in Europe dedicated to exploring the work and lives of 19th, 20th century and contemporary artists of European Jewish descent within a broad mainstream artistic context, rather than Judaica or Jewish history. It was founded in the East End of London in 1915 by the Russiam emigre artist, Lazar Berson to provide an art society for Jewish immigrant craftsmen and artists, unable at that time to gain access to mainstream artistic societies due to tradional obstacles faced by all migrant minorities of suspicion, prejudice and lack of opportunity. Ben Uri was founded in the vein of the Bezalel School created 9 years earlier in 1906 in Jerusalem and named after Bezalel Ben Uri who was the craftsman who designed and built the Ark of the Covenant.
It has an extraordinary 1300 strong permanent collection, and is seeking a site in Central London to house and display this, but its present location is only large enough for blockbuster temporary exhibitions including the serieson the Whitechapel Boys, Cross Purposes tracing the use of the Crucifixion motif during the 20th centurty and recent contemporary art, and in June 2012 ‘Dodo’ re-discovering a remarkable artist from Berlin in the Weimar 1920’s and 30’s followed in October by a survey of 40 years work by the iconic American artist Judy Chicago.
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