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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art after October 7, 2023 (Guy Yechiely)
January 12, 2025, 10:46 am
Making hostages a centerpiece, a Tel Aviv museum becomes a showcase for wartime agility
Its valuables are out of storage and new shows are being planned, but the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, ground zero for the hostage struggle, is still readying for whatever war may bring
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
Yael Bartana's 'CRISIS-CRYSIS-CRYCIS,' 2020, Neon, and Guy Zagursky's 'No Lifeguard on Duty (Black Flag),' 2024, Ceramics at the 'I Don't Want to Forget' exhibit at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, opening September 2024 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
September 26, 2024, 5:44 am
Tel Aviv art museum marks Oct. 7: ‘Take time to visit quietly, you will find light’
Institution and its ‘Hostages Square’ plaza have become focus for protests and healing; new exhibit features works showcasing responses by artists, including from Kfar Aza survivor
By Jessica Steinberg
Nathalie Andrijasevic, an assistant curator at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, handles paintings which were moved to an underground safe room at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on August 13, 2024. (Oren ZIV / AFP)
August 14, 2024, 4:06 am
Protect the Picasso: Fearing Iranian attack, Tel Aviv museum stashes priceless art
Facility is moving more valuable works from its collections to an underground safe room first utilized after October 7, leaving some galleries with blank walls
By Nir Kafri
Avshalom Pollak dancer Patrick Dehaan in the new work, 'Castor,' being performed in April 2024 in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Courtesy)
April 9, 2024, 3:10 pm
Choreographer premieres new work in shadow of war
Avshalom Pollak Dance Theatre will perform ‘Castor’ at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
By Jessica Steinberg
Emuna Libman, left, and Yarden Gonen, sisters of hostages at a solidarity event for the hostages at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on January 10, 2024. (Screenshot)
January 11, 2024, 9:42 am
Religious, secular relatives of Gaza hostages gather to sing, pray and hope for unity
Diverse mix comes together for rally in Tel Aviv, serenaded by musicians Idan Raichel and Aharon Razel, to mark a cause that has united Israelis from different worlds
By Jessica Steinberg
People take cover from missiles inside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art during a protest calling for the release of hostages at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)
December 25, 2023, 12:23 pm
2 evocative exhibits go up in Tel Aviv museum, as battle for hostages is waged outside
Since October 7, the plaza in front of Tel Aviv Museum of Art has been known as ‘Hostages Square,’ serving as a ‘spontaneous art space’; now, 2 new exhibits open inside
By Jessica Steinberg
Thousands attend a rally in Tel Aviv calling for the release of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on November 11, 2023. (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 12, 2023, 3:29 am
‘A nightmare, we’re not living’: Tens of thousands rally for hostages’ return
Protests held in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities as relatives mark 36 days since hundreds taken captive by Hamas; some demonstrators decry government inaction
By Melanie Lidman and Jessica Steinberg
Rotem Sapir from Kfar Maimon celebrated her bat mitzvah at the Tower of David Museum, with a free photo shoot offered for evacuees from the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks; her mother, Liat Sapir, commented, 'When we put our story in the perspective of 2,000-plus years, how much hope it gives' (Courtesy Tower of David Museum/Sharon Marks Atshul)
October 26, 2023, 1:36 pm
Museums rush to offer welcome activities online and, where possible, in person
Cultural institutions in most places remain shuttered, while those in Jerusalem can reopen; all are providing online distractions geared especially to displaced Israeli families
By Jessica Steinberg
The Israel Museum, October 2023. (Courtesy: Eli Posner)
October 24, 2023, 9:49 pm
After shock letter, Israel museum directors call on international colleagues to denounce Hamas
Leaders of local cultural institutions were shocked by open letter that called for support of Gaza without mentioning the Hamas massacres and atrocities of October 7
By Jessica Steinberg
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the state ceremony marking 50 years since the Yom Kippur War at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, on September 26, 2023 (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
September 27, 2023, 1:15 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 27: Saudi talks and the PA; Netanyahu talks tachlis with NY Jews
US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses latest normalization efforts and PM’s conversation with Jewish leaders; social media editor Sarah Tuttle-Singer introduces Hidden Gems
By ToI Staff
George Segal's 'Sacrifice of Isaac,' newly restored and on display at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art through January 13, 2024 (Courtesy TAMA)
September 25, 2023, 10:38 pm
George Segal’s ‘Sacrifice of Isaac’ brings back memories of Yom Kippur War
The pop artist modeled his biblical sculpture, last seen in public some 46 years ago, on Menashe Kadishman and son Ben, in precursor to 1973 crisis
By Jessica Steinberg
From filmmaker Amos Gitai's 2000 film 'Kippur,' featured in Tel Aviv Museum of Art exhibit marking 50 years since the 1973 Yom Kippur War (Courtesy Tel Aviv Museum of Art)
September 24, 2023, 2:54 am
50 years on, filmmaker Amos Gitai remembers Yom Kippur War in museum exhibit
Controversial creator of ‘Kippur,’ ‘Kadosh’ and dozens of other works, who was shot down in battle, draws on difficult memories for ‘Kippur, War Requiem’ at Tel Aviv Museum of Art
By Jessica Steinberg
The musicians participating in this year's Piano Festival October 24-30, 2023, including Ivri Lider, Ilai Botner, Miri Mesika, Shlomi Shaban, Danny Sanderson, Mosh Ben Ari, Shaanan Streett and others (Courtesy David Granot)
September 8, 2023, 2:56 pm
TA’s Piano Festival celebrates 25 years with week of performances
Some of the biggest local names in music will perform in smaller, more intimate venues around the city
By Jessica Steinberg
View of the entrance to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, June 26, 2023 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 15, 2023, 3:38 am
Tel Aviv Museum reexamines donation from fortune of Nazi war criminal
Institution looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars given a decade ago by Ingrid Flick, who inherited money from German industrialist found guilty of war crimes
By ToI Staff
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