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.
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…
These are marginal illustrations found in a manuscript siddur from Italy according to the Romaniote rite, with prayers focused on marriage and birth rituals and customs, as well as the pidyon ha-ben…
This Biedermeier-style sofa from Danzig, with birch veneer over pine, may have been commissioned on the occasion of a marriage. The oval on the seat back contains an image of clasped hands, and the…