Israeli sculptor Nahum Tevet was raised on a kibbutz and moved to Tel Aviv in his thirties. At the urging of Robert Rauschenberg, Tevet moved to New York in the 1970s. Today he lives in Israel and has headed Bezalel’s MFA program in Tel Aviv. Tevet has had solo shows in galleries in Jerusalem, Düsseldorf, Paris, New York, Zurich, and Tel Aviv. He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ministry of Science and Culture and Sport, Israel Council of Culture and Art.
In early winter 1998, I set out to discover my country, the Holy Land. My pilgrimage was an attempt at religious empathy: I was hoping to encounter, as an Israeli Jew, my Christian and Muslim…
Impaled corpses at Lachish, detail from Assyrian relief in the Nineveh palace of Sennacherib (reigned 705–681 BCE), depicting the conquest of Lachish in 701 BCE. For the full relief see Conquest of…
When we were the persecuted
I was one of you
How can I remain one
when you become the persecutors?
Your longing was
to become like other nations
who murdered you
Now you have become like them
You…