Israeli-born Uri Katzenstein received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and moved to New York City, where he worked throughout the 1980s. His early performance work was regularly presented at The Kitchen, No-Se-No, 8BC, Danceteria, and other legendary venues. His work in sculpture, video, and installation has been exhibited as the Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg; the Chelsea Art Museum; Kunsthalle Dusseldorf; and the Israel Museum. Katzenstein participated in the São Paulo Biennale (1991), the Venice Biennale (2001), the Buenos Aires Bienal (first prize, 2002), and the Istanbul Biennial (2005).
In the late 1950s, Marc Chagall began to work on stained-glass windows for the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Each of the twelve windows that were ultimately created for the hospital’s…
Gurvich began increasingly to focus his work on his Jewish heritage after his first trip to Israel in 1955. His paintings depict Jewish life and culture in dreamlike imaginary worlds, in a style and…