Israeli art

‘Jerusalem of Gold’ exhibit brings five Israeli artists to the capital’s theater

Jerusalem of Gold, a group exhibition featuring five Israeli artists, is open now and will be on display at the Jerusalem Theatre’s Salon Gallery until the end of September.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
LEFT: AARON KRAUS, ‘Standing Prayer (Amidah).’ RIGHT: MIRIAM JASKIEROWICZ ARMAN, ‘Begetting Life.’
ISRAEL MAKOV at the ‘Viewpoints’ book launch.

Israel Makov opens a window into six decades of collecting and championing Israeli art

A new book opens a window into Israel Makov's collection of nearly 400 works, tracing six decades of passion for Israeli art and support for artists before they gain recognition.

|ByNERIA BARR
‘TEL AVIV SUMMER,’ 2026, created especially for TAMA exhibition.

From the other side - with Noma Bar

Seeing beyond the barriers and shapes, encouraging viewers to perceive space in the most unexpected places – that’s Noma Bar.

|ByBASIA MONKA
YARON BOB stands next to a remnant of an Iranian ballistic missile in the backyard of his blacksmith studio in Yated.

From Iranian missiles to menorahs, Israeli blacksmith forges trauma into works of art

“This is my playground,” says Bob of the Qassam rockets, Grad missiles, and Iranian ballistic missiles that fill the backyard outside of his blacksmith studio.

|ByANAV SILVERMAN PERETZ

The Jaffa luxury hotel hosts designer Alon Livne's winter fashion show

The show was attended by colleagues from the Israeli design industry, stylists, fashion people, and celebs who came to pay tribute and also adhered to the black and white dress code

DECEMBER 23, 2021ByMICHAL GALANTI
Michael Schmidt and Alon Livne

An opportunity for a retired artist in Haifa

For Lauren Kedem retirement meant moving out of her residential teaching job at Hadassah/Meir Shfeyah Youth Aliyah village and settling in the diverse and heavily populated Wadi Nisnas neighborhood.

DECEMBER 16, 2021ByWENDY BLUMFIELD
Lauren Kedem

‘Floating Walls’ bring together Israeli artists in NY

DECEMBER 11, 2021ByMIKE WAGENHEIM
AYA GOSHEN, an Israeli native and the Floating Walls curator.

21st Israeli Art Exhibition to salute strong women

The 21st annual Israeli Art Exhibition will be dedicated to women.

DECEMBER 6, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A PAINTING by Dalit Merom.

Illustration Week: Reasons to be cheerful

A sunny life philosophy shines through much of the expansive program of events and exhibitions lined up for the eighth edition of Illustration Week, taking place in Tel Aviv-Jaffa on November 18-27.

NOVEMBER 18, 2021ByBARRY DAVIS
THE LEGENDARY fictional antics of Baron Munchusen provide the backdrop for the Victorious Half-horse exhibition in Old Jaffa.

Art curator Bar Yerushalmi's 'Total Nutrition'

Bar Yerushalmi's Total Nutrition art event held in Musrara last month examined the powerful relationships between food, social class and gender.

NOVEMBER 18, 2021ByHAGAY HACOHEN
CURATOR BAR YERUSHALMI was inspired by his own grandmother when he created the Musrara evening.

'Mother Opium’ traces the root of addiction’s pain

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021ByJOY BERNARD
THREE YEARS of research are reflected in the exhibition ‘Mother Opium.’

My Word: A spiritual spa in Safed

The green Galilean mountains have a certain timelessness to them. There is a natural rhythm, like the time for prayers, dictated in terms of sunrise and sunset.

AUGUST 13, 2021ByLIAT COLLINS
The exterior of the Ashkenazi Ha’Ari Synagogue in Safed, where the custom of ‘kabbalat Shabbat’ began.

The need for the constant duality

Ben-David lives and works in London and over the past decade lived in Portugal as well. He represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1988.

JULY 15, 2021ByBASIA MONKA
ZADOK BEN-DAVID at the opening of ‘People I Saw but Never Met,’ Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Israeli filmmaker takes seething swipe at identity in Cannes festival

His film for Cannes Film Festival expresses outrage as well as intimacy for Israel.

JULY 10, 2021ByREUTERS
THE REFILM Festival offers movie-goers an unusual chance to see restored vintage reels of film classics.