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Artist Farideh Golbahar with the flowers she tends at her Jerusalem home, May 2026 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
June 1, 2026, 2:10 am
Tehran memories meet the Israeli sun in Iranian-born artist’s paintings on show in Tel Aviv
‘Beyond Garden,’ now open through July 11, traces 84-year-old Farideh Golbahar’s decades of dreamy and meticulous oils on paper, shaped by Iran, Europe and Jerusalem
By Jessica Steinberg
Curator Avital Bar-Ishay and artist Belu-Simion Fainaru at the Israel pavilion at the Israel pavilion at the Venice 2026 Biennale Art, May 11, 2026. (Courtesy)
May 11, 2026, 5:46 pm
Despite protests, Israeli Biennale pavilion opens, includes Jewish mystical symbols
Tubes dripping with water, mezuzah scrolls and locks printed with commandments make up ‘Rose of Nothingness,’ artist Belu-Simion Fainaru’s installation
By Jessica Steinberg
From 'A Plate of Hope and Color' exhibit for lone soldiers in Tel Aviv, through May 8, 2026 (Courtesy)
May 6, 2026, 10:41 pm
Artists paint dinner plates for lone soldier charity
Tel Aviv exhibit ‘A Plate of Hope and Color’ includes work by some of country’s best-known artisans
By Jessica Steinberg
Artist Doron Adorian in her Tel Aviv studio (Courtesy)
May 1, 2026, 6:42 pm
Artist from war-torn north relocates to Tel Aviv, discovers success with works of kibbutz views
Doron Adorian evacuated after October 7, 2023, is welcomed by city’s art community as the ‘northern refugee.’ Now her art hangs on the wall of former US ambassador to Israel Jack Lew
By Jessica Steinberg
Artist Yair Garbuz on July 17, 2023. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
April 29, 2026, 7:47 pm
Artist, left-wing activist and writer Yair Garbuz dies at 80
Known for his collages and an incendiary comment made at a 2015 rally, Garbuz stayed mostly out of public life for the last decade
By Jessica Steinberg
A man running in front of a sign for the Venice Biennale in Italy in an undated photo. (Stefano Mazzola via Getty Images via JTA)
April 28, 2026, 9:57 am
Venice Biennale judges won’t consider Israel due to Netanyahu’s ICC arrest warrant
Artist and sculptor Belu-Simion Fainaru, representing Israel, says he believes ‘art thrives on openness’; Foreign Ministry: ‘Spectacle of false, anti-Israeli political indoctrination’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
French artist Henri Matisse works on his 'Grand Intérieur Rouge' canvas in his Villa le Rêve studio in Vence, circa April 1948. (Louis FOUCHERAND / AFP)
April 18, 2026, 7:52 am
Was Henri Matisse’s sojourn in Vichy France de facto collaboration or quiet resistance?
In his new book ‘Matisse at War,’ Christopher C. Gorham explores the renowned artist’s troubled but prolific life under the Nazis during WWII, and his family’s role in the French underground
By Rich Tenorio
Artist Avinadav Begin stands outside his Even Sapir workshop on September 21, 2025, contemplating a work in progress (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
September 25, 2025, 4:32 pm
Menachem Begin’s grandson pushes forward with art in solo show, during country’s painful ‘limbo’
Focusing on walls — and tunnels — Avinadav Begin prepares to close solo exhibition, laments gaping differences between his grandfather’s Likud and the current Netanyahu-led party
By Jessica Steinberg
Screenwriter Hagai Levi poses for a picture during an interview with AFP on January 7, 2020 in Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
September 17, 2025, 11:31 am
TV writer Hagai Levi says artists want to leave Israel, boycott is hurting wrong people
Screenwriter warns cultural isolation risks stifling domestic voices in the country who are critical of Netanyahu and his government
By Adam PLOWRIGHT
At a recent FeelBeit event in August 2025 (Credit Zaki Qutteineh)
August 19, 2025, 9:37 am
On shifting ground, Jerusalem’s FeelBeit center offers home for Israeli-Palestinian art
Co-directors of Jerusalem arts hub located on seam between East and West Jerusalem talk about new program ‘Shift’ and the complexity of the last two years
By Jessica Steinberg
David Tartakover, renowned graphic designer and artist who died on July 29, 2025 (Courtesy)
July 29, 2025, 8:37 pm
Renowned designer, political activist David Tartakover dies at 81
Israeli artist, who was best known for his Shalom and Peace Now emblems, taught a generation of future designers
By Jessica Steinberg
At the Fresh Paint art fair in Tel Aviv, through May 26, 2025 (Courtesy Fresh Paint)
May 26, 2025, 4:05 pm
Fresh Paint fair brings new Israeli art to potential collectors
Six-day Tel Aviv art event introduces artists and their works to new audiences, with everything for sale
By Jessica Steinberg
Freed hostage Andrey Kozlov poses in New York in May 2025 with the artwork he created over the last few months, after his rescue from Hamas captivity in June 2024 (Courtesy)
May 19, 2025, 5:43 pm
Andrey Kozlov drew in Hamas captivity. Now he’s painting his story
Kozlov was rescued by the IDF in June 2024; he hopes to exhibit his artwork in New York and Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
At the 2024 Fresh Paint art fair, which will be held May 21-26, 2025 (Courtesy)
May 6, 2025, 9:21 pm
Biggest art fair to take place in little-known Israel Electric compound
Fresh Paint, Israel’s largest art event, to brings visitors to Kremnitzky Technical Center, east of Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv
By Jessica Steinberg
Artist Sofie Berzon Mackie at her new temporary home in Kibbutz Hatzerim, March 2025, after being evacuated from Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023 and living in a Dead Sea hotel for months with her partner and three children (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
April 6, 2025, 7:31 am
Be’eri artist and gallery director finds clarity in temporary home, art and family
Sofie Berzon Mackie fled her kibbutz on Oct. 7 as terrorists torched the community’s art space. She spent months living in a hotel room and hopes to find answers as she plans for the future
By Jessica Steinberg
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