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).
I want to tell you a good story that I heard on the first day of Succos. Someone told me he heard it from his father, a Hasid, and just forgive me, because I have to throw a lot of names at you, but…
This woodcut depicts Jewish women and girls lighting candles to mark the beginning of the Sabbath or a holiday. The illustration appears in a Yiddish translation by Shim’on Levi Gintsburg, printed in…
Is the Jewish existence so hollow and frail that it took hundreds of thousands of human victims in order to consolidate it, as the claim that the Bar Kochba rebellion ensured our continuity would seem…