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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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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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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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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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Tel Aviv ranked 3rd in Lonely Planet list of world’s best cities

November 1st, 2010 | Comments Off

Lonely Planet, one of worlds most importantant publishers of travel guides and travel information, named Tel Aviv third (!) in a list of the world’s best cities (in travel 2011) this week, praising “the coastal metropolis for its art and music scenes and relaxed, liberal culture…” Just great, we think! New-York and Tangier just beated us this time ;-) [via: Haaretz] … 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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David LaChapelle in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

August 27th, 2010 | Comments Off

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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Aman Bagan is back

May 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Ari Fruchter‘s legendary art-parties at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (‘TimeOut Art Night’) are back for the 2nd season (art, drinking, dancing, chatting and flirting). ‘Aman Bagan’ will start on Thursday, May 27th (20:30) with the sculptor, painter, video- and installation artist Uri Katzenstein (born in 1951 in Tel-Aviv) and a ‘groovy’ DJ.. Don’t miss these best art-parties in Tel Aviv this summer! (last year, every party attracted around 1500 people ). … Read entire article »

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Hot Jazz in Tel Aviv

February 6th, 2010 | 2 Comments

“One of the greatest jazz-singers of our generation ” (The Washington Post) Vanessa Rubin will give a swinging show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on February 11th at 21:00 and February 12th at 21:30. Information: 03-573.3001 [edit: The Catcher in the Sand ware there. Read about it: HERE] … Read entire article »

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Museum or wedding hall?

January 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art will host another ‘society‘ wedding on its premises this month. It looks like that the museum-director prof. Mordechai Omer is using the museum the last few month as a private ‘playground’ for his elite-friends. Seven month ago he used the museum for the wedding of Erez Navon, the son of former president Yitzhak Navon (rent for the space was $25.000 ) and this month, January 25th, the wedding will take place of the daughter of Hanina Brandes (law firm Naschitz Brandes). I understand that the museum is using his premises for video-art parties, jazz-concerts e.g.: we are talking about art!! But what has a ‘society’ wedding to do with art? During the last wedding the museum closed its doors to the … Read entire article »

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Celebration of hot jazz in Tel Aviv

January 2nd, 2010 | 2 Comments

The Jazz clarinetist Evan Christopher, born in 1974 in Long Beach, California, will give a concert on January 7th at 8th at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (21:30). The All Music Guide wrote about Evan Christopher: “…A star on the world jazz scene, combination of virtuosity and unique sound, sweeping performance of standard riffs”. Information: 03-573.3001 … Read entire article »

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The Art Attack Party

October 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment

On October 15th, at 21.00, there will be The Art Attack Party in Drella, inspired by Andy Warhol (Dubnov Street 8, near the Tel Aviv Museum). There will be Israeli- and International video-art installations, DJ Ahoroni and a lot of dancing, drinking and playing-around, with a strict door-policy for artists, art lovers and the open-minded. This event is organized (again!!) by Ari Fruchter from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. … Read entire article »

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The 3rd Tel Aviv Museum of Art party

September 22nd, 2009 | Comments Off

The 3rd Tel Aviv Museum of Art party, Aman Bagan, last Thursday-evening, was again a big success (!!) with more then 1.500 guests, who enjoyed the video/art installations of Sigalit Landau, the swinging music of Dj Assaf Amdurski, the ‘hangdrummer’ Liron and the exotic bar from Dubnov 8. This was Rocking (Thank you, Ari!). See you all at the 4th Aman Bagan! … Read entire article »

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