Jonathan Borofsky is an American conceptual artist renowned for site-specific installations and large-scale sculptures. Among his most famous works are his Hammering Man sculptures, installed in cities around the world. He is also known for his wall drawings, such as Hitler Dreams, which remain on view only for the duration of exhibitions and are then painted over. Borofsky lives in Maine.
This work, which I here make public, answers a scholarly need that became evident to me twenty-five years ago, when I was still a young student writing my first book, The Beginning…
Early in his career, Castel often painted pictures of Jews, like these, whose roots were in Arab lands. Many at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, where he studied, believed that Yemenite Jews…
Averbuch uses paving stones, railroad ties, steel, glass, and other reclaimed materials in his sculptures, repurposing them but also allowing them to retain signs of their utilitarian past. His works…