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).
A ketubah is a religious and legal contract of marriage. Traditionally, it outlines the conjugal and economic conditions of a marriage and is written in Aramaic. This ornate ketubah from Oran, Algeria…
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…
Good night, wide world.
Big, stinking world.
Not you, but I, slam the gate.
In my long robe,
With my flaming, yellow patch,
With my proud gait,
At my own command—
I return to the ghetto.
Wipe out…