The work of Israeli artist Tel Aviv-born Michal Rovner has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Against Order? Against Disorder? at the Venice Biennale (2003) and Michal Rovner: The Space Between, a mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2002). In 1978, Rovner co-founded the Camera Obscura Art School in Tel Aviv. She lives in New York.
Rabbi Abraham Bloch was a French army chaplain, killed in 1914 while holding a crucifix for a dying Catholic soldier. In 1934 the French government erected a monument in his memory at the spot where…
These silver Torah finials are from Corfu and were made between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by an artist whose initials were A.Z. They were used in the Scuola Greca Synagogue, which…
Though Nikel’s style of expressionist abstraction has sometimes been characterized as lyrical abstraction, a style associated with Israel’s New Horizons group, she was not formally connected with any…