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Contemporary ballet company Complexions in Tel Aviv Opera House

April 25th, 2011 | Comments Off

The famous American contemporary ballet company Complexions will give three shows in the Tel Aviv Opera House (TAPAC). The company was founded in New York in 1994 by artistic director, choreographer Dwight Rhoden. The New York Times wrote a few month ago: “Dwight Rhoden’s choreography is like molten lava, flowing with staggering force…”. The three shows are taking place on April 25th, April 26th and April 27th at 21:00. More information: 03-6927777 … Read entire article »

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Photographer Yossi Breger at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

March 15th, 2011 | Comments Off

Coming weeks, you could visit the exhibition: ‘And there was evening And there was morning, One day‘ in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (www.tamuseum.org.il). The exhibition shows 159 photos taken by Yossi Breger since 2007 until today in various places around the world: Tel Aviv, Paris, Brussels, Havana, Beijing, Berlin and more-, of buildings, objects, and people telling their stories. … Read entire article »

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Oscar for Short documentary about Tel Aviv: Strangers No More [with trailer]

February 28th, 2011 | Comments Off

Breaking News: A few hours ago the short documentary: ‘Strangers No More’, directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon (from New York: the Simon & Goodman Pictures Company) received an Academy Award (Oscar) for ‘Best Short Documentary’. It is the story about the Bialik-Rogozin School, a unique school in South-Tel Aviv (near the Central Bus station) with children from more then 48 countries around the world, most of them refugees. Karen & Kirk: Congrats !! More (former) Oscars … Read entire article »

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Antonio Gades Company returning to Tel Aviv

February 19th, 2011 | Comments Off

In the light of its huge success, last year, the flamingo-dance company Antonio Gades will return to Tel Aviv. This time with ‘Blood Wedding’ & ‘Suite Flamenco’ on February the 24th, 25th and 28th in the Mann Auditorium. For information go to: www.hadran.co.il … Read entire article »

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Gallery Tour in Neve-Tsedek

February 12th, 2011 | Comments Off

Irgoen Oleh Holland, the Dutch New Immigrants Organization will have an exciting Gallery Tour in the old and picturesque neighborhood ‘Neve-Tsedek’ (1883) on March 4th. The tour will start at 9.30.The tour will be in Dutch! For information, please call: Milly Horowitz (03-5169096). … Read entire article »

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World Press Photo in the Eretz Israel Museum

December 13th, 2010 | Comments Off

The 10th annnual photojournalism exhibition World Press Photo is open now (December 10 – January 15) at the Eretz Israel Museum under the name ‘Local Testimony’. Come and see the past year through the best press photography in the world. … Read entire article »

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Neo-Expressionist paintings from Berlin in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

December 5th, 2010 | 1 Comment

This days you can visit a new exhibition in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art: ‘Neo-Expressionist Painting from Berlin’. The exhibition will show you figurative and expressive painting, characterized by large formats, intense colors, narrative, direct personal exposure, provocativeness and seductivenes. There are selected works by some of the prominent Neo-Expressionists active in Berlin of the 1970s and 1980s: Karl Horst Hodicke, Rainer Fetting, Salome, Helmut Middendorf and Peter Chevallier. More information: www.tamuseum.org.il … Read entire article »

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View on Peace Wall from Peres Peace House

November 12th, 2010 | 2 Comments

My co-editor Frits told me and wrote about it on our site before. He is an art and architecture lover and I am a photographer. But now I have seen it with my own eyes, being on a guided tour with Frits. For me it is official now: The Peres Peace House is ugly! There are more reasons for that: it is an ugly building (of 15 million dollars), that looks like an Amsterdam parking house it is difficult to clean and so dirty already it is facing the sea and not the streets of Jaffa / Ajami There is one big benefit since a few weeks and from yesterday. The backside of the building, designed by Italian architect Massimillana Fuksas, faces the Peace Wall, the great artwork of Arabic and Jewish children, in the form … Read entire article »

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Coming soon…

November 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment

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Opening Party of Chelouche Gallery Tel Aviv well attended

October 31st, 2010 | Comments Off

A few days ago, on Thursday-evening, October the 28th, hundreds of people attended the opening party of the Chelouche Gallery at their new location in the ‘Twin Building’, designed in 1925 by Joseph Berlin at Mazeh Street 7. What a party and what a place!! Worth a visit.. … Read entire article »

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TLV Global City Forum: a fighting spirit for Tel Aviv

October 17th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Last Wednesday, October 13th, the first Tel Aviv Global City Forum took place at the Cameri Theatre, with local and international speakers and different workshops. After the opening remarks of mayor Ron Huldai there were speeches by Chaim Shani, the General Manager of the Ministry of Finance, a speech by Hila Oren, the General Director of TLV Global City, an interesting speech by Jennifer Falk, the Executive Director of the Union Square in New York, … Read entire article »

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Art and the city

October 10th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Tel Aviv launches the art season , ‘Loving Art, Making Art’, with a city-wide open house, beginning this coming Thursday, October 14th, when over 75 museums , galleries and allernative spaces open their doors from 14:00 until 23:00 free of charge. ‘Healing Art’ sound installations and shows will line the boulevards from 19:00. Gan Hashasmal will turn into a huge street gallery of design, art and fashion. For more information: www.tel-aviv.gov.il … Read entire article »

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Homage to Avigdor Arikha at Tel Aviv Museum of Art

October 5th, 2010 | Comments Off

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art will tribute a homage to the Romanian born Israeli painter Avigdor Arikha, who died last April the 29th. The exhibition will be in two parts. The first part, planned with the artist before his death, at the age of 81, includes illustrations to S.Y. Agnon‘s ‘A Stray Dog’ , woodcuts and drawings made during the 1950′s and represent Arikha’s development from the figurative to the abstracts. The second part presents 19 self-portraits: the earliest from 1948 and later ones with his image as a painter, working and observing himself, against the background of the studio and its surroundings. The latest portrait was made in 2001, in Arikha’s Paris studio, as he was approaching his 70th birthday. For more information: www.tamuseum.org.il … Read entire article »

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