The Jewish Museum of Florida Opens "The Wondering Jew" on November 18 — With a Rube Goldberg Bartender Machine and an AI Clone of the Artist

The Jewish Museum of Florida opens The Wondering Jew: Chagall, the École de Paris and the Worlds They Inspired on November 18, 2026 — an exhibition that reclaims an antisemitic trope by changing a single letter, turning an image of punishment into one of curiosity and creation.

Joseph Herscher — the artist behind the Joseph's Machines YouTube channel, whose videos have received more than 1 billion views — will build a working Rube Goldberg bartender machine at the museum during Art Basel Week. The machine will be featured at a museum brunch on Sunday, December 6, from 10 AM to 1 PM. Herscher will also lead student workshops in December. His work follows in the tradition of Rube Goldberg, the Jewish American cartoonist whose drawings imagined complicated ways to complete ordinary tasks; Herscher has brought his machines to Sesame Street and Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Miami-based interdisciplinary artist Dahlia Dreszer, born in Colombia and raised in Panama, will present Clone Dahlia — a Knight Foundation-funded, AI-powered installation where visitors can converse with a digital version of herself, displayed on a holographic display. Dreszer draws on her Latin American and Jewish heritage to explore identity, memory, and cultural inheritance. Her work offers a contemporary counterpart to the migration and reinvention stories at the heart of the École de Paris.

The Wondering Jew brings together works by Marc Chagall and other Jewish artists of the École de Paris, along with an interactive immigration map that asks visitors where their ancestors came from and where they live today, displaying their stories alongside the artists' journeys. The exhibition opens under new leadership: CEO Howard Lipman and Chief Curator and Experience Officer Ali Shrago-Spechler.

Jewish Museum of Florida: 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. The Wondering Jew opens November 18. Art Basel Brunch with Joseph Herscher's bartender machine: December 6, 10 AM–1 PM. Admission: adults $12, students/seniors $10, free Saturdays. Wed–Sun 10 AM–4 PM. jmofl.org