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 (!)…. Read more →
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
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… Read more →
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… Read more →
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… Read more →
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
The Israeli ‘naive’ landscape painter Eliora Steimatzky-Schwartz will have a new exhibition, ‘Storyboard‘, in Tel-Aviv. The exhibition will open on Thursday, April 29th, at 19:30 at the Artists’ House, 9 Elharazi Street. The exhibition, curated by Doron Polak, will end on May 23rd. For more information, opening hours, see the website of Eliora: www.eliora-art.com
An exhibition of new works by Moshe Mirsky, born in 1952 in kibbutz Ein-Harod, will open on Thursday, February 11th at Dvir Gallery, Nitzana Street 11 at 20:00. In Mirsky’s works the Israeli existence/experience (The Kibbutz) dominates. The exhibition will close on March 13th. Opening hours: Tues-Thurs: 10-13 and 17-19 / Fri-Sat: 10-13
Again on Ha’aetz.com there is a very interesting story [LINK] about so called fire marks from Israel. I was quite intrigued by this story. These fire (insurance) marks were the sign that insurance was payed for the specific building and in the British Mandate period quite common. Until February 25 the fire marks are on display at the HerzLilienblum Museum… Read more →
