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).
In 1832, after the French conquest of Algeria, French artist Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) traveled to North Africa, creating a series of paintings and drawings that exoticized scenes of daily life in…
I dragged my belongings over to Grandmother’s, my books, my music stand, and my violin. The table had already been set for me. Grandmother sat in the corner. I ate. We didn’t say a word. The door was…