Brief audio excerpts from the joint interview with Tobi Kahn and Nessa Rapoport for Jewish Sages of Today

1. On Rapoport’s introduction to the richness and pluralism of Jewish life in New York

   (3 min)

2. Kahn on the importance of the visual in Judaism

   (6:43 min)

3. Sense of heritage; responsibility to one’s ancestors

   (8:08 min)

Selected images of Kahn’s work

1. View images of Kahn’s work, chosen by the artist

   The attached images are paired with text by Kahn from his piece “The Meaning of Beauty” in Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces for the 21st Century, edited by Ena Giurescu Heller
   (Museum of Biblical Art New York in Association with D Giles Limited, London, 2009)

2. Exhibitions and Commissioned Work

   A selection of Kahn’s exhibitions and commissioned work.

Selected books and exhibition catalogues featuring Kahn’s work

1. Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces for the 21st Century

   edited by Ena Giurescu Heller
   (Museum of Biblical Art New York in Association with D Giles Limited, London, 2009)

2. Objects of the Spirit: Ritual and the Art of Tobi Kahn

   by Emily Bilski
   (Hudson Hills Press, 2004)

3. Tobi Kahn: Metamorphoses

   by Peter H. Selz, Dore Ashton, Michael Brenson
   (Council for Creative Projects, 1997)

Related to Kahn's work

1. Tobi Kahn

   This website is devoted to Kahn’s work and career. Here you can view many examples of his work in a range of media, learn about and view images from exhibitions, and more.

2. Avoda Arts

   Kahn is a co-founder of Avoda Arts, developed in 1999 as a non-profit educational organization that uses arts and culture as entry points into Jewish learning.

3. Artists’ Beit Midrash at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning

   Kahn co-founded and facilitates the Artists’ Beit Midrash at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning of Temple Emanu-El in New York. This program is designed to allow adult students to explore Jewish sources within a community of peers and create new works inspired by the texts that they study.

4. School of Visual Arts

   Kahn has taught fine arts workshops at the School of Visual Arts in New York City since 1985.

Articles and a news segment

1. “Art Intended to Make the End of Life Beautiful,” New York Times, December 31, 2010

2. “Tobi Kahn at MOBIA,” CBS news segment, December 2009

   (video, 5:21 min)

3. “A Visual Language: Seeing and Ceremony,” Sh’ma, February 2005

4. “Making Rituals His Own,” Newsday, November 27, 2004

5. “Interview with Tobi Kahn,” Avoda Arts