San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum recently opened its doors to visitors. Daniel Libeskind's $47.5 million construction — which merges a 20th-century power plant with futuristic blue-steel structures — was described by the New York Times as "unsettling" and "vertiginous." The article also said that the institution "focuses not on the substance of Judaism, its laws, or history or ritual objects, but on perceptions of them." Two of the museum's inaugural exhibitions are the photography group show Being Jewish: A Bay Area Portrait and In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis, a series of specially commissioned installations.