The works of Israeli artist Yair Garbuz have been featured in dozens of solo exhibitions and group shows in Israel and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the Emet Prize (2004) and several other awards and grants. Garbuz is the author of seven books. He writes widely on art and was director of the art school at the Beit Berl Teachers Training College from 1997 to 2009.
Abraham Rattner painted Design for the Memory in 1943 when the murder of Jews by the Nazis was underway in Europe. He chose Christian iconography, namely, the crucifixion of Jesus, to express his…
This phantasmagoric portrait of poet and playwright Daniel Levi (Miguel) de Barrios and his family is from Imperio de Dios en la harmonia del mundo(God’s Empire in the Harmony of the World), a…
A retrospective exhibit these last few weeks at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris—perhaps too generously big an undertaking—has allowed a wider public to appreciate the originality and importance of…