Israeli-born Uri Katzenstein received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and moved to New York City, where he worked throughout the 1980s. His early performance work was regularly presented at The Kitchen, No-Se-No, 8BC, Danceteria, and other legendary venues. His work in sculpture, video, and installation has been exhibited as the Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg; the Chelsea Art Museum; Kunsthalle Dusseldorf; and the Israel Museum. Katzenstein participated in the São Paulo Biennale (1991), the Venice Biennale (2001), the Buenos Aires Bienal (first prize, 2002), and the Istanbul Biennial (2005).
Mother, there’s a tedium today,
some sadness that’s got into everything,
even an ambitious man’s dreams
show signs of a slow despair.
Mother, try loving
your self-despising son
on a day he’s alone
an…
This sheet by the calligrapher and scribe Iehudah Machabeu presents samples of different “lettering,” including Hebrew (at the top), Arabic, Greek, Castilian, English, French, Italian, and Latin. It…
In Alexander Tyshler’s illustration for a Yiddish version of the Sleeping Beauty story, characters seated around a table are packed together like puzzle pieces, enclosed in a rectangular shape from…