In Tel Aviv Show, an Artist Exposes the Room Inside Her

This fine exhibition offers an elegant experience of fraught sadness, a searing situation report about all-embracing loneliness.

Jan 11, 2016 6:41 AM

The whole interior space of the Givon Art Gallery in Tel Aviv has been transformed for “Half Full,” a masterly exhibition by Maya Attoun. By building walls and creating small rooms and narrow corridors, the...

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