Tel Aviv–born Moshe Ninio is a multidisciplinary artist. Solo exhibitions of his work include the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (1998), the Mary Fauzi Gallery, Jaffa (2000), and the Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris (2001). He has also been featured in group exhibitions at Time for Art, Tel Aviv (2002), Art Focus, Jerusalem (2003), and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008). He received Israel’s Ministry of Education and Culture Prize for Plastic Arts (1997).
Ninio’s art focuses on putting everyday objects into new contexts, which change their original functions, posing questions about the nature of their reality, by opening them up to new relationships…
Daniel Cohn-Bendit was a student leader during the protest in France in May 1968, when up to ten million workers went on strike and 800,000 people marched through Paris. Here he vaults a police…
These cosmetic implements from Gibeon include a limestone bowl decorated with small, incised circles and two bronze spatulas. Tweezers for plucking hairs have also been found.