Israeli artist Asaf Ben-Zvi lives in Jerusalem. His work has been the subject of more than a dozen solo exhibitions in Israel. He is the recipient of the Mendel Pundik Prize for Israeli Art (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1989), the Israel Discount Bank Prize (1994), and the Eugen Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Art (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1997).
In this photograph shot on a snowy day in New York City, icy bare branches on the staircase of a building dwarf the people and two skyscrapers, creating a composition in which diagonal lines and…
The ceiling and wall paintings in the baroque-style Kupa Synagogue in Kraków, which dates from 1643, were damaged during World War II and in a pogrom that occurred in August 1945 immediately following…
Though Benjamin-Eugène Fichel is better known for his historical paintings set in the eighteenth century, in this painting he documents modernity itself. Here a wealthy couple orders a meal in a…