About

Dr. Noam Gal (PhD, Yale 2012), scholar and curator of the arts in the camera-age, is a senior lecturer at the Art History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Between 2013-2021 he served as Chief Curator of Photography at the Israel Museum Jerusalem. Gal's main exhibition projects featured the art of Richard Avedon, Berenice Abbott, Ron Amir, Ilit Azoulay, Tomoko Sawada, Roi Kuper, Micha Bar-Am, and Chen Cohen. Gal is the curator and author of A Modern Love, the first survey in Hebrew of modernism in photography. Gal's essays appeared internationally in Critical Arts, African Identities, The Art Journal, Photographies along with numerous local venues. His book project Compressions: Israeli Art in the Third Millennium is forthcoming in 2023.

Selected Publications

1. Noam Gal, “Joint Spectatorship: Experiments with Photography,” Photographies Vol. 15 (3), 2022 (forthcoming).

2. Noam Gal, “When Seeing Expires: Art History and the Work of Alison Rossiter,” Art Journal Vol. 81 (1), 2022, pp. 27-43.

3. Noam Gal, "Theodor Herzl Is Yael Bartana, Rereading Jewish History Through Photography, Thomas Pegelow-Kaplan and Ofer Ashkenazi eds. (Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming 2022).

Teaching

B.A. courses

History of Light: Introduction to the Art of Photography

Cutting Contemporary Art

Great View: Introduction to the Philosophies of Art

Israeli Art in the Third Millenium

         M.A. courses

Regarding Now: Philosophies of Contemporary Art

Hang The Curator: Critiques of the Museum

Performance: Art Against Life

Reel Time: from Photography to Video-Art and Back

About

Prof. Gal Ventura is a cultural art historian in the Department of Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research  focuses on nineteenth-century French art, an epoch of revolutionary political, demographic, and cultural changes and engages socio-medical aspects of childhood, maternity, breastfeeding, pain, death, and sleep. Her recent essays, published in various international journals, investigate motherhood, medicine, design, and fashion.

Selected Publications

Gal Ventura, 2015, "Nursing in Style: Fashion versus Socio-medical Ideologies in Late Nineteenth-Century France," Journal of Social History 48, no. 3 (Spring, 2015): 536-554.

Gal Ventura, 2017, "Intention, Interpretation and Reception: The Aestheticization of Poverty in William Bouguereau's Indigent Family," Visual Resources 33, nos. 3-4 (Autumn, 2017): 204-233.

Gal Ventura, 2017, "'Long Live the Bottle': The French Bottle-Feeding Industry in the Nineteenth Century," Social History of Medicine 33, no. 2 (Autumn, 2017): 329-356.

Gal Ventura, 2019, "'Ceci n'est pas un Berceau': The Majestic Cradle of Napoleon's Son," Journal of Design History 32, no. 4 (September, 2019), 323-339.

Gal Ventura, 2020, "The Game of Chance: Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass and Nineteenth-Century French Political Caricatures," Konsthistorisk tidskrift: Journal of Art History 89, no. 5 (September, 2020), 1-23.

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art (2013-present)

Aesthetics: Critical thought about Art (2008-2012)

Oh Mama! Maternity in Visual Culture (2011-2012, 2018-2019, 2021)

Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century (2014-2016, 2019, 2021)

The Art of Blasphemy (2015, 2017, 2020)

Paris: Urbanism, Consumerism and Modernity (2016-present, Amirim)

Introduction to Aesthetics: Modern Critical Thinking Through the Arts (2017)

Me, Me, Me: Selfie and Narcissism (2019)

Master's degree courses

The History of Art History (2016-present, M.A.)

From Durer to the Selfie: The Art of Portraiture (2016-2017, 2021, M.A.)