Opening December 7, 2013
Galleries

Co-organized by MASS MoCA, The Wandering Veil travels to North Adams from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Tefen Open Museum in Israel, where it premiered last year.

Read a recent profile of Izhar Patkin from the New York Times.

Kashmiri-American Poet Agha Shahid Ali wrote The Veiled Suite specifically for his collaboration with Izhar Patkin. Jacki Lyden talks with Shahid for NPR's All Things Considered at Izhar Patkin's New York City Studio in July 2001.

Watch Caetano Veloso read Agha Shahid Ali's translation of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's work, Violins. Staged in Sao Paulo, within an installation of Izhar Patkin's tulle paintings of the same title, the reading is accompanied by a cello recital by Jaques Morelenbaum.

Hear the artist speak about his work in conversation with David Ross, March 2008, New York city.

The exhibition is supported by Artis and Lynn Holstein with additional funding provided by the Consulate General of Israel to New England and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Izhar Patkin (B. Israel, 1955) The Veil Suite (detail), 2006 Installation at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, June-December 2012 Ink, pleated Illusion (tulle), painting for four walls, 14 x 22 x 25ft