Israeli-born Uri Katzenstein received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and moved to New York City, where he worked throughout the 1980s. His early performance work was regularly presented at The Kitchen, No-Se-No, 8BC, Danceteria, and other legendary venues. His work in sculpture, video, and installation has been exhibited as the Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg; the Chelsea Art Museum; Kunsthalle Dusseldorf; and the Israel Museum. Katzenstein participated in the São Paulo Biennale (1991), the Venice Biennale (2001), the Buenos Aires Bienal (first prize, 2002), and the Istanbul Biennial (2005).
Landau was working in a studio that she set up in an abandoned space in Tel Aviv’s central bus station, which had once been living quarters for illegal foreign workers, when she conceived of Resident…
This photograph of girls at a bat mitzvah was shot by Greenfield for a project about teenagers in Los Angeles. She was interested, she has said, “in how kids in Los Angeles seem to grow up quickly…
Motherwell’s most famous series of artworks was his Elegies to the Spanish Republic, which he intended as “a funeral song” for the losing side, the Republicans, in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)…