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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 586

Israeli art

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
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
Anuar Jour had trouble creating following the October 7 atrocities. (Bernard Dichek)
May 12, 2024, 4:53 am
Displaced by war, Israeli artists are given a seaside studio refuge following Oct. 7
Providing living quarters and studios near the beach, the Old Jaffa Artists Residency sought to reignite smoldering creativity; the work that emerged has surprised even its makers
By Bernard Dichek
'Signaling' by Michal Rovner is projected onto the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, January 12, 2024. (Courtesy of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art/Photo by Yaron Eini)
March 10, 2024, 7:30 pm
Despite vandalism and protests, NY gallery Pace showcases Israeli artist as planned
Exhibition of Michal Rovner’s ongoing ‘Pragim’ series opens on schedule March 7 after art houses across the city are defaced by anti-Israel protesters following Hamas atrocities
By Karen Chernick
'The Terrorist Attack at Nova Music Festival' by Zoya Cherkassky, October 2023.
October 28, 2023, 1:19 pm
With gut-wrenching drawings, artist Zoya Cherkassky shares Israel’s pain with world
There is no escaping the sheer horror, pain and trauma in mixed-media works on paper, in which even the brightest colors are overshadowed by the blackness of Saturday, October 7
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Curator Roni Cohen-Binyamini (left), Ramat Gan Mayor Carmel Shama-Hacohen (middle) and Ramat Gan deputy mayor Roy Barzilai at the opening of 'In the Land of My Love' on September 3 at the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
September 5, 2023, 8:22 am
New exhibit opens at Ramat Gan museum, spanning century of Israeli art
‘In the Land of My Love’ brings 240 works from massive Phoenix Holdings collection, aims to patch up rift between mayor and artists that shut the museum in January 2022
By Jessica Steinberg
'Home 2018' by Shai Azoulay, oil on canvas, one of the pieces being donated for a Sotheby's sale to support Ukrainian refugees and artists (Courtesy Reuven Yisrael)
March 25, 2022, 1:41 am
Israeli artists donate works for sale to support Ukrainian refugee artists
Plan to create a temporary art residency program in Israel for artists and art professionals fleeing Ukraine
By Jessica Steinberg
Hila Ben Ari's dancers play with paper and movement in her video homage to papercut artist Moshe Reifer, a fellow member of Kibbutz Yagur in her childhood, currently on exhibit at Ticho House through October 2022. (Courtesy Ticho House)
January 31, 2022, 12:27 pm
Fantastical papercuts from pre-state Israel inspire video art
Hilla Ben Ari’s art installation at Jerusalem’s Ticho House echoes work of artist Moshe Reifer, fellow Kibbutz Yagur resident who loomed large
By Jessica Steinberg
'The Rainbow' mosaic on the Bezeq telephone exchange building on Hebron Road in Jerusalem. The mosaic was taken off the wall in July 2018 due to the demolition of the building. (Ranbar/ Wikimedia commons)
September 13, 2021, 5:29 pm
Iconic Jerusalem mosaic reconstructed in largest such operation in Israel
‘The Rainbow,’ by Russian-Israeli artist Lev Syrkin, which graced the Bezeq telephone exchange building on Hebron Road, remounted on a specially built wall
By ToI Staff
A frame from 'The Builder' by Kobi Vogman. (Courtesy)
June 26, 2021, 11:21 am
Jerusalem art collective’s 1st post-COVID solo show opens to a new world order
HaMiffal bounces back and inaugurates its new second-floor gallery with ‘Moving,’ an exhibit from local artist Kobi Vogman dealing with his father’s death, running through July 29
By Elie Bleier
Israeli painter Iddo Markus speaks during an interview at his studio, surrounded by his paintings of former US president Donald Trump, in the northern port city of Haifa, on January 22, 2021 (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)
January 24, 2021, 2:02 am
120 faces: Israeli artist paints Trump from every angle
Iddo Markus, a strong critic of former US president, says he now sees him as a ‘tragic figure’
By Claire Gounon
Detail from photograph of Gal Gadot posing for Moses Pini Siluk as Wonder Woman for Israeli Sheva Leylot magazine years before snagging the role in the film. (Moses Pini Siluk)
December 17, 2020, 5:45 am
Years before first film, an Israeli artist turned Gal Gadot into Wonder Woman
Moses Pini Siluk’s audacious portraits make him the Holy Land’s hottest photographer, but internationally he’s known as the man who saw a superhero in Gadot long before her debut
By Brigit Grant
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