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Seder Plate: Untitled
Neil Goldberg
1996
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American conceptual and video artist Neil Goldberg has exhibited at the Jewish Museum, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn.; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. His videos have been screened at the British Film Institute, the New York Jewish Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, and Thirteen/WNET’s Reel New York. Goldberg’s work is in the permanent collections of The Jewish Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. He received a MacDowell Fellowship (2001) and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2003).
The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century. Modernization is about everyone becoming urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually…
Battlefield with prisoners and corpses, on Egyptian cosmetic palette, ca. 3100 BCE. The scene includes bound prisoners being led off and corpses being eaten by vultures, ravens, and a lion. Burial was…
This Torah binder, made for boys at birth and later brought by young men as a symbol of participation in the synagogue, illustrates the fixed nature of traditional gender expectations.