Multidisclipinary artist Zoya Cherkassky was born in Ukraine and immigrated to Israel at age fourteen. From 1996 to 2004, she worked with artist Ruti Nemet in a partnership called Ruti & Zoya. Cherkassky’s first solo exhibition, Collectio Judaica, with a focus on antisemitism, opened in 2002 at the Rosenfeld Gallery in Tel Aviv. From 2004 to 2008, she was a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation (IcExcellence).
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Bill Gold designed more than one poster for Casablanca, including one featuring Humphrey Bogart wielding a gun. Over his seventy-year career, he designed thousands of movie posters, tailoring the…
Freed deliberately designed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to create a sense of disorientation and alienation, even terror, in keeping with the museum’s subject matter. Though it is not based on a…