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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 640

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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
Michal Berman, an artist who participated in 'Where You From?' an artist residency at the Olim Artists Lab at Neve Schechter in Tel Aviv, at an evening presentation on January 5, 2025. (Credit Yair Meyuchas)
January 10, 2025, 1:33 am
11 artists living between Israel and US express their journey at Olim Artists Lab
Oil paintings, readings, zine and a film are some of the creative responses at the Neve Schechter artist residency
By Jessica Steinberg
The opening of a new exhibit at Haifa's Tikotin Museum on December 31, 2024 (Courtesy Keren Avni)
January 9, 2025, 1:33 pm
With Hezbollah rockets halted, Haifa’s cultural scene experiences post-ceasefire boom
Long-delayed Haifa Film Festival finally marks 40th year, as Tikotin Museum celebrates iconic Japanese wave print and Haifa City Museum waxes nostalgic about Israel’s homegrown car
By Jessica Steinberg
Ruth Patir's works on exhibit at the 60th Venice Biennale, part of her '(M)otherland' artworks. (Courtesy of the artist and Braverman Gallery Tel Aviv)
December 7, 2024, 2:36 pm
Museum buys artist’s work after she shut Venice Biennale exhibit in call for hostage deal
New York’s Jewish Museum purchases Israeli artist Ruth Patir’s five-part video installation ‘(M)otherland,’ which will premiere at Tel Aviv Museum of Art in March
By Jessica Steinberg
The 'Masterpieces' exhibition at the Mishkan Museum at Kibbutz Ein Harod, autumn 2024. (Photo by Daniel Hanoch)
November 17, 2024, 6:02 am
In new exhibit, Israeli museum responds to wartime isolation with ‘respins’ of great works
Running through February, ‘Masterpieces’ at the Mishkan Museum in Kibbutz Ein Harod contains 300 works by 47 artists, including rethinks of ‘The Last Supper’ and ‘Guernica’
By Karen Chernick
The opening of 'No Words,' an exhibit of the Jerusalem Biennale marking one year since Hamas's October 7, 2023, massacre, in the old Shaare Zedek building, October 7, 2024. (Yakov Buta)
November 15, 2024, 5:48 am
‘No words’: Soldiers, immigrants, sabra artists exhibit together in Jerusalem
Group exhibition marking one year since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack brings mix of oils, watercolors, drawings, photographs and installations to Jerusalem Biennale gallery
By Jessica Steinberg
This undated photo provided by Pelham Communications on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024 of Frank Auerbach. (David Dawson/Pelham Communications via AP)
November 12, 2024, 6:58 pm
German-British artist Frank Auerbach, who fled the Nazis as a child, dies at 93
Born in Berlin, Auerbach was sent to England by his parents in 1939 and went on to become one of the major artists of the 20th century
By AP and ToI Staff
'On the Other Side,' a collection of artist Zadok Ben-David's installations at the Tower of David Museum, open from September 18, 2024. (Courtesy)
October 20, 2024, 4:32 pm
Vivid sculptures displayed in ancient Jerusalem citadel reflect post-Oct. 7 life cycle
London-based Israeli artist Zadok Ben-David brings his singular metalworks to the Tower of David Museum: ‘Shows how quickly but gradually things change’
By Jessica Steinberg
US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew with Israeli artist Doron Adorian and her painting, 'Green,' at the ambassador's Jerusalem residence on September 20, 2024 (David Azagury, U.S. Embassy Jerusalem)
September 25, 2024, 5:22 pm
US ambassador fills home with Israeli art showing post-Oct. 7 resilience
Jack Lew opens official residence and shows off a collection built up over the tumultuous first year of his posting
By Jessica Steinberg
Volker Gerling, creator of 'Portraits in Motion,' his 'thumb cinema' performance art that he will perform at the Israel Festival in Jerusalem on September 18 and 19, 2024 (Courtesy)
September 11, 2024, 10:44 am
German artist brings flipbook portraits of October 7 survivors to Israel Festival
Volker Gerling to perform his ‘cinema art’ in Jerusalem, the first time he’s developed a new piece in a foreign land
By Jessica Steinberg
Fred Kormis in his studio in the 1980s. (Courtesy: Wiener Holocaust Library Collections via JTA)
September 10, 2024, 7:49 pm
The overlooked artist who escaped the Nazis and made the 1st UK memorial to their victims
A new display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library follows the upheaval that plagued the life of little-known sculptor Fred Kormis, who focused on memorializing humans in captivity
By Shira Li Bartov
Artist Tobi Kahn, whose work is on display at the exhibit 'Memory and Inheritance: Paintings and Ceremonial Objects by Tobi Kahn' at the Museum at Eldridge Street in New York's Lower East Side, Spring 2024. (Erin Flynn/ Courtesy of Museum at Eldridge Street)
September 3, 2024, 2:58 am
Nature meets divine in New York exhibit by Tobi Kahn, son of Holocaust survivors
The Lower East Side’s Museum at Eldridge Street honors the US Jewish immigrant story, continued with the spiritual works in ‘Memory and Inheritance,’ on display through November 10
By Leigh Pennington
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