Sigalit Landau is one of Israel’s most prominent artists. Only two years after her graduation from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, she was selected to exhibit at the Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1997. That same year, her works were shown at Documenta X in Kassel. In 1999, Landau won the OPEN 2000 Competition in London. She lives in Tel Aviv.
Built in the seventeenth century, the Scuola Greca is a synagogue located in the area of the ghetto in which Jews were confined in 1622, in a neighborhood still known as “Evraiki” (Jews). It is the…
In this photograph of Israeli beatniks in a night club, Paul Schutzer captured a different side of Israeli life from that usually portrayed in the Israeli and international media. His partying…
From May through August 1541, the forces of the Ottoman Empire laid siege to the city of Buda (present day Budapest, Hungary) and captured it, ushering in 150 years of Ottoman rule. This illustration…