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January 23rd, 2012 | 2 Comments

From February the 12th until February the 16th (11:00-19:00) the Accessible Art Fair will be held at the Old Jaffa Antiquities Museum (10, Mifratz Shlomo Street, Jaffa). The Art Fair brings you a great selection of contemporary art from all over the world with established artists like: Yonathan Levy, Sigal Yaar, Michel Levi, Abba Richmann, Jonathan Kil Lev, Rachel Yedid, Caroline Avoth, Anna Laura Millaci, Nadia Schoenzwytt, Clemens Briels, Dirk Wagemans and many, many more… … Read entire article »

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Telavivi comic book shop Comics N’ Vegetables wins international award

January 17th, 2012 | Comments Off

Comic book store Comics N’ Vegetables (CNV), did win the prestigious 2011 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award, the third ever store outside North America since 1993. The award is granted to a store that has “done an outstanding job of supporting the comic art medium in the community and witin the industry at large”. CNV has done this job in Israel with verve since 2001, first with an online retail website and in 2005 started … Read entire article »

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Tel Aviv Fashion Week: first one after 30 years

November 23rd, 2011 | 2 Comments

Yesterday, the first Tel Aviv Fashion Week (after 30 years) opened with dozens of shows, events and a special guest: the famous Italian designer Roberto Cavalli. The Fashion Week is taking place at the beautifully restored Tachana compound (the old Jaffa trainstation) between Jaffa and Neve-Tsedek. Let’s bring Tel Aviv back to the fashion capital of the Middle-East! … Read entire article »

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First event in the new building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

November 20th, 2011 | Comments Off

A few weeks ago was the official opening of the beautiful new, expanded building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The Herta & Paul Amir Building is designed by Preston Scott Cohen, an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts. On wednesday, November the 30th. (20:00h) there will be a first event in the new building, mixing social and art, with e.g. a lecture: ‘The Intersection between Design & Technology’. If you love architecture (and art), you will fall … Read entire article »

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Guests in the Gallery: six artists from Delft Holland

November 4th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Our permanent readers will know that we just write about Tel Aviv-Yafo, and Tel Aviv-Yafo only. This time we make an exception: in the city of Kfar-Saba, north of Tel Aviv, an exhibition of 6 artists from Delft, Holland (Netherlands) opened a few days ago. The exhibition is a part of the twin-cities project: Delft-Kfar-Saba, a friendship since 1968 (!). The 6 artist from Delft are: Laura Bakker, Willem van den Hoed, Coen de Jong, Erik … Read entire article »

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Documentary The Flat wins an Ophir Award 2011

September 25th, 2011 | Comments Off

Last Thursday-evening 98 minutes documentary The Flat, directed by Arnon Goldfinger received the Award for Best Documentary at the Ophir Awards 2011 (the ‘Israeli Oscars’). It is the story about the grandparents of Arnon, who were living on the 3rd. floor of a Bauhaus building at 31, Gordon Street in Tel Aviv. Arnon says about his documentary: “…My grandparents lived on the 3rd. floor since 1935, when they immigrated to Palestine. The flat was furnished with … Read entire article »

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The first Slideluck Potshow in Tel Aviv

September 20th, 2011 | Comments Off

After New-York, London, Sao Paulo, L.A., Barcelona, Nairobi,Chicago, Mexico-City, Copenhagen, Toronto, Sevillia, Rome, Bogota, San Francisco, Madrid, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Bucharest, Berlin, Panama-City, Montreal and New Orleans… The first Telavivi Slideluck Potshow took yesterday-evening (September 19th.) place in Tel Aviv at the old town-hall (Beit Ha-Ir, Bialik Square). The Slideluck Potshow is a New-York based, non-profit arts organization, that provides an opportunity for artists and art-appreciaters to gather around food, friends and artwork. The event, which began in … Read entire article »

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Exhibition of Yakov Agor in Tel Aviv Museum of Art

July 23rd, 2011 | Comments Off

This week an exhibition was opened in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art about the Israeli photographer Yakov Agor (1911-1996), who became famous for his pictures in the left-wing weekly ‘HaOlam-Haze’ (Uri Avneri) and later on in ‘Haaretz Magazine’... Information: 03-607.7020 … Read entire article »

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Tel Aviv Laila Lavan – White Night – coming weekend

June 26th, 2011 | Comments Off

On June the 30th 2011 another Laila Lavan, ‘White Night’, will take place all over the city of Tel Aviv in celebration of the declaration by UNESCO (June 2003) that the inner-city of Tel Aviv will be a ‘World Heritage’ site. Like every year (all night) museums will be open (free of charge), there will be yoga lessons at the ‘Chandra Yoga Center’, lots of music (classic, jazz and rock ), free theater, etc…etc. For a full … Read entire article »

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Gala premiere of The Queen Has No Crown in Cinematheque Tel Aviv

June 9th, 2011 | Comments Off

On June the 16th (20.00) the gala premiere of ‘The Queen Has No Crown’, directed by Tomer Heymann and produced by Tomer and Barak Heymann, will take place in Cinematheque Tel Aviv as a part of the TLVfest 2011. The documentary, that had its world-premiere at the 61st. Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale 2011), is a personal story about his family, his strong mother, his father who divorced after 33 years of marriage and his four … Read entire article »

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Laurie Anderson gives two shows in Tel Aviv

June 6th, 2011 | Comments Off

Laurie Anderson (1947), the American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin, keyboards and sings, will give two performances in Tel Aviv. On June 17th. she will be on the the stage of the Zappa Club and on June 19th. at the Mann Auditorium. More information: www.tkts.co.il … Read entire article »

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Dutch architects and engineers visiting Tel Aviv

June 5th, 2011 | Comments Off

Last Thursday, June 2nd, 61 Dutch architects and engineers did visit our city Tel Aviv. The 6-days Dutch Architecture Israel Excursion was organized by Ton Voets (Cultuurreizen.tv in Delft, Holland). I took 31 people from the group and showed them historic Tel Aviv (1909-1938). In the 3-hours walk of the inner-city of Tel Aviv, they saw Neo-Romantic, Eclectic and Bauhaus, or Internationale Style architecture. In the inner-city of Tel Aviv (since June … Read entire article »

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Troubles, troubles, troubles in paradise… and in- and around Habima Theater

April 26th, 2011 | Comments Off

We wrote many times on Tel Aviv Fever about the ‘strange’ restoration project of the Habima Theater done by architect Ram Karmi. But now also the designer of the new plaza near Habima: the sculptor Dani Karavan joined the chorus of complaining about the whole project and the two top ” artists ” are blaming each other! In this article by Noam Dvir in the Haaretz Magazine: “Squaring off in Tel Aviv”, Dani Karavan has … Read entire article »

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