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Joshua Neustein
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “contemporary visual artist living and working in new york and tel aviv”. Today it says “contemporary visual artist who lives and works in new york city”.
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Joshua Neustein (born 1940) is a contemporary visual artist living and working in New York and Tel Aviv. He is known primarily for his environmental installations and Post Minimalist torn paper works, as well as his series of large-scale map paintings. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of Environmental, Conceptual Art into the Israeli scene. He was a teacher at Bezalel Art Academy.1
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contemporary visual artist living and working in new york and tel aviv
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contemporary visual artist who lives and works in new york city
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