Deganit Berest is one of Israel’s most prominent multidisciplinary artists. She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Visual Arts (2005) and the Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture (2007). She lives in Tel Aviv.
Ishtar Gate and processional avenue, Babylon. This scale model in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin shows the splendor of the city in the days of the prophet—or prophets—whose words are preserved in…
Mendes da Costa was best known for the reliefs he sculpted for buildings in Amsterdam (many of which were figures of animals) in the style of the Niewe Kunst, the Dutch variant of Art Nouveau. But he…
Shadow and Synagogue is one of a series of about one hundred photographs by Tress that appear in his 1975 book, Shadow, A Novel in Photographs. In the book’s visual narrative, the photographer’s…