Israeli sculptor Nahum Tevet was raised on a kibbutz and moved to Tel Aviv in his thirties. At the urging of Robert Rauschenberg, Tevet moved to New York in the 1970s. Today he lives in Israel and has headed Bezalel’s MFA program in Tel Aviv. Tevet has had solo shows in galleries in Jerusalem, Düsseldorf, Paris, New York, Zurich, and Tel Aviv. He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ministry of Science and Culture and Sport, Israel Council of Culture and Art.
In the spring of 1961, I flunked an exam that would have enabled me to write an honors thesis. In reality, it was a minor failure—I was spending most of my time at the Crimson building, where I was…
Many of Robert Capa’s war photographs are of solitary soldiers or small groups of fighters (such as this one, of Israeli troops during Israel’s War of Independence) rather than scenes of heroism on…
It was noon and a small boy lay on the couch in the room. The woolly coverlet prickled his back, making him toss about uncomfortably. His eyes roved across the ceiling and down the blank walls to the…