Joshua Borkovsky is an Israeli artist whose paintings and photographs often feature phantasmagoric imagery. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in galleries in Israel and New York, and he has participated in group shows, including the Paris (1982),Venice (1986), and São Paolo Biennales (1991). Borkovsky lives in Jerusalem and is a professor at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and in the art department at the Hebrew University.
Kehunat Avraham (The Priesthood of Abraham), completed in Venice in 1719, is an interpretation and retelling of sections from the book of Psalms in verse. The Hebrew text in this illustration comes…
The Hand of Man appeared in the first issue of Alfred Stieglitz’s journal, Camera Work. Its title alludes both to the transformation of the natural world by humans and the capacity of humans to create…
Jacques Brandon set his painting of a heder, a traditional Jewish elementary school for boys, in a Mediterranean or Near Eastern location or in an imagined distant past. The boys are dressed in white…