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Amitai Hazan, CEO of auction house Tiroche, at the 2025 auction of Israeli artworks (Courtesy)
June 26, 2026, 4:53 am
Rare works by Israeli artists Rubin, Gutman head to auction valued at $300,000
Tiroche auction house aims high, with sale of long-awaited museum-grade pieces from private collections overseas returning home to a surprisingly bullish local market
By Jessica Steinberg
Yaacov Agam, Israeli artist, reclining on one of his works at the Georges Pompidou Art Center, June 28, 2003, in Paris, where his works of kinetic sculpture were on exhibit. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)
June 21, 2026, 2:51 pm
Yaacov Agam, pioneering Israeli kinetic artist and Israel Prize laureate, dies at 98
Sculptor celebrated for his vibrant geometric shapes and interactive works created the iconic Fire and Water Fountain in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square, among numerous other pieces
By Biranit Goren and Jessica Steinberg
Artist Tal Tenne Czaczkes working on her Flag of Flags, a massive canopy made of abandoned Israeli flags now being shown around the country, in May 2026 (Roni Czaczkes)
May 19, 2026, 4:21 pm
Using discarded Israeli flags, artist tries to stitch divided country together
Tal Tenne Czaczkes created ‘The Flag of Flags,’ a banner of nearly 700 pennants once abandoned on roadsides, now sewn into a giant canopy
By Jessica Steinberg
Mierle Laderman Ukeles speaks with a sanitation worker in an archival photo. (Courtesy Toby Perl Freilich via JTA)
May 2, 2026, 2:20 am
New film profiles Jewish feminist who is NYC Sanitation Department’s official artist
‘Maintenance Artist’ looks at Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s 50-year partnership with the municipal workers and her belief, rooted in Jewish identity, that people are more than their societal roles
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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
Pioneering kinetic artist Yaacov Agam receiving the Israel Prize on April 20, 2026, at the Yaacov Agam Museum of Art (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
April 22, 2026, 10:12 am
‘Creativity is the basis of Judaism’: Yaacov Agam, father of kinetic art, receives Israel Prize
Accepting the award in the eponymous museum he helped design ahead of Wednesday’s ceremony in Jerusalem, the 97-year-old creator charms admirers — and a ToI journalist
By Jessica Steinberg
Curator Amitai Mendelsohn, left, and artist Yudith Levin, right, at the Israel Museum for a February 26, 2026 press tour for "Yudith Levin: Break of Dawn," through July 2026 (Courtesy)
April 16, 2026, 1:50 am
Israeli artist adopts classical motifs to frame contemporary trauma in new exhibit
‘Yudith Levin: Break of Dawn’ at the Israel Museum features her work over 50 years, from her brother’s 1956 death in a military plane crash through the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli artists Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen are partners in life and in music. (Gil Rouvio via JTA)
January 10, 2026, 8:38 am
Speaking the language of music, Israeli-born couple brings Moroccan roots to US university
Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen draw on rediscovered heritage to connect with students at the historically Black Xavier University in Louisiana, where many have no exposure to Jews
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
'Orange' 2024 by Gidi Rubin, exhibited in 'Face to Face,' December 4, 2025, to February 7, 2026 at Eilat Artists' Gallery (Richard Levi)
December 7, 2025, 2:15 pm
Celebrated Israeli painter’s grandchildren get their turn at the easel in Eilat exhibit
Curator Céline Avrahami’s ‘Face to Face’ brings photographs by Michal Rubin and paintings by Gidi Rubin, descendants of artist Reuven Rubin, now through February 7
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
Shavuot celebrations in Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan in 1945 (Credit Yaakov Rosner/KKL-JNF archive)
June 1, 2025, 1:00 pm
Kibbutz marks 80 years of Shavuot song and dance with pioneering artworks
Northern Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan hosts expansive exhibit inspired by the pre-state work of choreographer Leah Bergstein and composer Mattityahu Shelem for the harvest festival
By Jessica Steinberg
Photographer Ziv Koren's 'Naval Commando fighters in training' 2009, photograph, part of the Bank Hapoalim 'Israeli Art' exhibit opening February 15, 2025 (Courtesy)
February 11, 2025, 3:07 pm
Nova community to get proceeds of exhibit showcasing Israeli art
Bank Hapoalim’s annual ‘Israeli Art’ event will donate 75% of proceeds from sales to helping survivors, the bereaved and families of hostages taken from rave on October 7
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
Some of the artworks shown in the 'Lucid Dreams' exhibit at the Israel Museum that opened December 17, 2024 (Credit Zohar Shemesh)
January 2, 2025, 9:22 am
What dreams may come: Surrealistic exhibits mark start of Israel Museum’s 60th year
After international institutions shunned them amid war, the curators of ‘Lucid Dreams’ and ‘Alma Mater’ turned inward, assembling over 180 local works
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
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