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).
The title of this painting, Flight into Egypt, refers to the story in the Christian Gospels in which Joseph and Mary flee with the infant Jesus to Egypt to escape the wrath of King Herod. Rabin, born…
Though discovered in a private home in Beersheba, this 9.5-inch-high × 11.5-inch-wide (24 cm × 29.5 cm) pot, or its contents, was probably dedicated to the sanctuary. The inscription kodesh or kadosh…
So I’m glad I got the napkin back. Because she made it for me when we had all the time. Back in the old country when the two of us loved each other better than anybody else in the whole world. I had…