From Gallery to Museum: Dismantling Antisemitism in the Arts

Dominique Lévy has shaped the international art market and the New York art world for more than three decades through her singular perspective on 20th- and 21st-century European and American art. A renowned gallerist, advisor, connoisseur, and collector, Lévy began her career in Europe and then relocated to New York, where she launched the transformative Private Sales department at Christie’s in 1999 as its International Director. Since 2003, Lévy has been founder to influential galleries including L&M Arts; Dominique Lévy Gallery; Lévy Gorvy, in partnership with Brett Gorvy; and now Lévy Gorvy Dayan, with Gorvy and Amalia Dayan.

Lévy’s galleries have been distinguished by their access to key primary and secondary artworks, curatorial programs, and stewardship of artists’ legacies. With wide-ranging expertise in modern and postwar art, she possesses detailed knowledge of artists including Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among many others. She is known for placing sought-after works in prestigious museum and private collections. Lévy has mounted acclaimed exhibitions featuring artists from Calder, Fontana, Kelly, and Klein to Warhol and Richter.

James S. Snyder began his tenure as the Jewish Museum’s Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director in November 2023, after serving since 2019 as Executive Chair of The Jerusalem Foundation, Inc. He is also Director Emeritus of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, where he served as the Anne and Jerome Fisher Director from 1997 through 2016 and then as International President through 2018. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Middle East Initiative at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Prior to his appointment at the Israel Museum, Snyder held a number of positions at The Museum of Modern Art culminating as Deputy Director from 1986 to 1996.

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Alissa Schapiro, PhD serves as Curator and Collections Specialist at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. She is the curator responsible for overseeing the Skirball’s collection of 30,000 objects related to Jewish culture and history, and she has curated and managed temporary exhibitions for the museum that include TORN Project by Susan Lerner (2025-2026), This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement (2023-2024), and RECLAIMED: A Family Painting (2023-2024). As a scholar, Schapiro often lectures to academic and museum audiences about twentieth-century U.S. art and culture, and she regularly consults on projects and publishes essays related to Holocaust history and memory. Her academic research on the relationship between U.S. art and antisemitism has been supported by institutions such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. As a curator, Schapiro has contributed to exhibitions and catalogues for museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Schapiro holds a B.A. in Art History from Harvard University, an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern University.

Zoë Buckman (b. 1985 Hackney, East London) is a British, Jewish multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, textiles, lens-based media, ceramics, neon, and painting, exploring themes of Intersectional Feminism, mortality, and equality.

Notable solo shows have included Who By Fire at Mindy Solomon Gallery Miami, TENDED at Lysles & King NYC, BLOODWORK at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery London, Nomi at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, No Bleach Thick Enough, at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, Heavy Rag at Fort Gansevoort Gallery New York, Let Her Rave at Gavlak Gallery Los Angeles, Imprison Her Soft Hand at Project for Empty Space, Newark; Every Curve at PAPILLION ART, Los Angeles; and Present Life at Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York.

Group shows include those at The National Portrait Gallery London, SF MoMA, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Arkansas, The Jewish Museum NYC, The Neues Museum Nurenburg, The Lowe Art Museum, The Norton Museum, The Broad Museum, The Museum of Art & Design NYC, The Parish Art Museum NY, The Church Sag Harbor, MOCA Virginia, The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, The Camden Arts Centre, London, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Children’s Museum of the Arts, The Shirley Fitterman Center NY, Timothy Taylor Gallery NYC, MASSIMODECARLO Gallery Hong Kong, Mother Gallery, Beacon NY, Paul Kasmin Gallery NY, Goodman Gallery South Africa, Jack Shainman Gallery NY, Monique Meloche Chicago, NYU Florence Italy, Grunwald Art Gallery, Indiana University, and the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA and The National Museum of African-American History & Culture, Washington, DC.

Buckman studied at the International Center of Photography (ICP), was awarded an Art Matters Grant in 2017, The Art Change Maker Award 2019 at The New Jersey Visual Arts Center, and The Art and Social Impact Award 2020 at Baxter St NYC, and completed a residency at Mana Contemporary in 2017.

Public works include MENDED: a Times Square Midnight Moment, a mural, We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident, in collaboration with Natalie Frank at the Ford Foundation Gallery of New York & Live Arts in NYC, and various billboard projects with For Freedoms. In February 2018 Buckman unveiled her first Public Sculpture presented by Art Production Fund on Sunset Blv, Los Angeles, a large scale outdoor version of her neon sculpture Champ, which was up for 6 years.

Buckman’s work is included in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, The National Portrait Gallery, London, The Jewish Museum New York, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, The Chrysler Museum Virginia, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Peabody Essex Museum, Boston.

Buckman lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and her first museum solo show opens autumn 2026 at The Perez Museum, Miami.

Luda Isakharov is Associate Director on ADL’s National Affairs team, where she works across both the Ratings & Assessments Institute (RAI) and the Birnbaum Center for Combatting Antisemitism in Education. Prior to this role, Luda spent a year at ADL’s Washington, D.C. Regional Office, where she led the region’s campus advocacy portfolio and supported state legislative advocacy efforts across the region.
She came to ADL after personally experiencing antisemitism while serving as Student Body President at the University of Oregon following the events of October 7th, an experience that propelled her to become a national voice speaking out against antisemitism on college campuses. Luda has testified before the U.S. Senate Joint Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and spoke at a side panel at the Democratic National Convention alongside the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, sharing her story and advocating for stronger protections for Jewish students. Today, she leads RAI’s portfolio on antisemitism in art and culture while continuing to support ADL’s campus partnerships and faculty and staff engagement nationwide.

Shlomi Rabi is an arts executive with more than two decades of experience across the global contemporary art market, having held leadership roles at Christie’s, Phillips, and Artsy. He is the founder of Greenhouse Auctions, a mission-driven platform integrating commerce and philanthropy in the arts that was acquired by Artsy in 2021. Currently, he serves as Executive Director of NY-based private operating foundation supporting interdisciplinary artistic practice through residencies and public programming. In addition to his professional work, Shlomi is actively engaged with cultural nonprofits, is Co-Chair of the ADL NY Activist Group and Advisory Board, and a longstanding member of the American Friends of the Israel Museum.

Amy Atlas is Co-Chair of ADL’s New York City Activist Committee, where she works to confront and counter rising antisemitism. She has developed and led webinars addressing antisemitism in the arts and on college campuses. Her work is also deeply personal: she is the daughter-in-law of a Holocaust survivor, a perspective that informs her commitment to education and action.

A bestselling author, Amy has appeared on national television, including The Today Show, and has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications.

She is an attorney admitted to practice in New York and a lifelong New Yorker, where she lives with her husband and raised their children.