See the art, meet the artists, buy the art work
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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First event in the new building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
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
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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Exhibition of Yakov Agor in Tel Aviv Museum of Art
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
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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Dov Carmi exhibition in the Helena Rubinstein Pavillion
In the Helena Rubenstein Pavillion for Contemporary Art (Tarsat Boulevard 6) you will find an exhibition about the famous International Style (‘Bauhaus’) architect Dov Carmi under the name: ‘Dov Carmi, Architect-Engineer, Public Domestica‘. Dov Carmi was born in 1905 in Odessa and came to Palestine in 1921. He went to the ‘L’Ecole du Beaux Art’ in Gent (Belgium) to study architecture. Back in Palestine he designed more then 50 International Style buildings (1930-1950 ) in Tel … Read entire article »
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Neo-Expressionist paintings from Berlin in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
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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Information Center of the Association for Tourism Tel Aviv-Jaffa [non-paid advertorial ;-) ]
If you are visiting Tel Aviv for the first time or even for a second or more times it is wise to visit the friendly people at the Information Center of the Association for Tourism Tel Aviv-Jaffa… They can tell you lots of things about Tel Aviv, for instance the free guided tours on Tuesdays, cycling in Tel Aviv…. And there is a lot of material which is refreshed every day. When we were there they … Read entire article »
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Opening Party of Chelouche Gallery Tel Aviv well attended
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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Art and the city
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
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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David LaChapelle in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
This days you will find a large exhibition in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art about David LaChapelle (born on March the 11th/1963 in Fairfields, Conneticut), the world famous fashion, advertising- and fine art-photographer. His surreal, unique stills are mostly in a humorous style. Elton John was many times his favorite ’object’. For openings-time of the exhibition and more information go to: www.tamuseum.org.il … Read entire article »
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