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…. 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
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.
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 →
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]
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
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… Read more →
“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]
