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From the Iota Project, showing at this year's Fresh Paint art fair, which begins May 30, 2019, at the Tel Aviv Expo (Courtesy Fresh Paint)
May 30, 2019, 12:06 pm
Fresh Paint fair kicks off with exhibitions throughout Tel Aviv
The annual art event aims to bring together artists through conversations, collaborations and exhibits
By Jessica Steinberg
Mordechai Allouche, a Holocaust survivor whose art is exhibited at 'New on Display,' at the Yad Vashem Museum of Holocaust Art, April 15, 2019. (Courtesy Yad Vashem)
April 16, 2019, 10:09 pm
New Yad Vashem exhibit showcases Holocaust art and stories from living survivors
Art curator says ‘New on Display,’ which opened Monday, is the result of aggressive acquisitions aimed at preserving Shoah works — and their makers’ testimony
By Yaakov Schwartz
'Jesslyn Fax Stories,' a pastiche of Time magazine covers, at the entrance of an exhibit at the Haifa Museum of Art (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
April 6, 2019, 8:50 am
Art examines creation of bogus realities in Haifa’s ‘Fake News’ exhibit
48 participating artists, including UK superstar Damien Hirst, contribute works of questionable truth
By Jessica Steinberg
Detail from Haifa, 1959, photograph by Dorothy Bohm, mother of Monica Bohm-Duchen, who conceived of the 'Insiders/Outsiders' festival celebrating contributions to British society by refugees from Nazi Europe. (Courtesy)
March 2, 2019, 9:03 am
Year-long UK arts fest celebrates contributions of refugees from Nazi Europe
Curator of ‘Insiders/Outsiders,’ opening March 2, says Jews fleeing persecution produced influential music, art, writing and design in their adopted country
By Anne Joseph
A 19th Century bronze 'kashkul' or alms bowl from Persia or Egypt, on display at the exhibit 'The Majlis -- Cultures in Dialogue' (The Majlis -- Cultures in Dialogue Facebook page)
December 4, 2018, 7:19 pm
Gulf artworks highlight region’s surprising historical culture mix
Paris exhibit shows how imagery from Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and other religions was brought together over many centuries
By Jean-Louis De La Vaissier
Michal Bachar's laser-cut figurines, creating shadow profiles in black and white, at Illustration Week 2018 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
November 20, 2018, 7:54 am
Old Jaffa provides scope for the imagination during Illustration Week
The annual ode to illustrators and artists of other mediums is taking place in Jaffa and around Tel Aviv through November 24
By Jessica Steinberg
One of Aya Ben Ron's rusted metal sculptures depicting the wounds and injuries suffered in war and conflict, hung on the walls of the Polonsky Building of the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem for Manofim 2018 (Courtesy Manofim)
October 20, 2018, 9:02 am
Historic Jerusalem neighborhood of Talbieh at center of Manofim art festival
Elegant and upscale, the area serves as springboard for examination of displacement and succession as part of the yearly event, along with art and music around town
By Jessica Steinberg
Doctor Gunther von Hagens, anatomist, inventor of and creator of Body Worlds, is seen in front of one of his works in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, June 11, 2010 (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
October 2, 2018, 6:50 am
‘Body Worlds’ creator asks to become part of exhibit after death
Wife of Gunther von Hagens, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, says she was first shocked but eventually agreed to husband’s request
By TOI staff and Agencies
Members of the Creative Committee of the People’s Art School, Vitebsk, winter 1919. Seated: Yuri (Yehuda) Pen (third from left), Marc Chagall (center), Vera Ermolaeva (second from right), Kazimir Malevich right). Gelatin silver print. (Archives Marc et Ida Chagall, Paris)
October 1, 2018, 11:33 am
After the Russian Revolution, Chagall ran an art school for the proletariat
A new exhibit at New York’s Jewish Museum highlights a brief period when one of the world’s most famous Jewish artists convinced the Bolsheviks to nurture working-class talent
By Cathryn J. Prince
Enid Marx working on a textile design post, 1945. (Courtesy)
July 25, 2018, 5:51 pm
For 40 years, Londoners sat on this unconventional artist’s ingenious tube seats
Trailblazing textile designer Enid Marx is celebrated in a new exhibit at London’s House of Illustration through September 23
By Anne Joseph
A prosthetic limb as a vine, from The Alternative Limb Project, exhibited at Jerusalem Design Week 2018. (Courtesy, The Alternative Limb Project)
June 14, 2018, 5:57 am
Conserve, preserve are apt themes for Jerusalem Design Week in ex-leper colony
More than 100 artists and designers from Israel and abroad participate in a dazzling array of exhibits
By Jessica Steinberg
Self-portrait at drawing table, René Goscinny, 1948. (© Anne Goscinny)
May 23, 2018, 4:34 pm
The wild adventures of René Goscinny, Jewish inventor of Asterix and Obelix
New exhibit at London’s Jewish Museum explores the life, hardships, and providential escape from Nazi Europe of the world famous cartoonist
By Jenni Frazer
An exhibit put up at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem on May 16, 2018, featuring names of Palestinians killed in protests and clashes on the Gaza border. (Im Tirtzu/courtesy)
May 17, 2018, 4:20 pm
Outrage over exhibit honoring Gaza dead at Jerusalem arts school
Bezalel cites freedom of speech after student put up posters with names of Palestinians killed in clashes, prompting minister to ban academy from science convention
By Michael Bachner
Clockwise from upper right: 'The Ballad of Marie Sanders, The Jew’s Whore,' by Nancy Spero; Half-Scale Study for Double Jeopardy from Holocaust Project—Studies/Ancillaries, by Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman; 'Women in Birkenau Camp,' by Halina Olomucki, drawn secretly while imprisoned in 1945. (Courtesy Ronald Feldman Gallery)
April 13, 2018, 12:46 am
Groundbreaking exhibition depicts sexual violence against women in the Holocaust
Opening April 12, a group show sees artists shine light on a taboo facet of Holocaust history and draw attention to continuing sex crime in contemporary war zones
By Cathryn J. Prince
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