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Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama poses for photographers in front of her painting “Love Arrives at the Earth Carrying with it a Tale of the Cosmos” at the Tate Modern in London, on February 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
August 27, 2026, 9:13 am
Yayoi Kusama, who splashed polka dots across art world, dies at 97
Artist said she drew the way she saw the world; Tel Aviv Museum of Art added one of avant-garde pioneer’s infinity mirror rooms to its permanent collection last year, after vast 2021 retrospective
By YURI KAGEYAMA
Small groups touring through the basement rooms of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, seeing works from 'End of the Day: One Hundred Years of the New Objectivity Movement' during April 2026. (Daniel Hanoch)
April 14, 2026, 7:44 pm
Underground art, literally: War takes Tel Aviv museum’s tours to the basement
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s curators guide visitors through the New Objectivity exhibit, rehung in its dressing rooms
By Jessica Steinberg
A young visitors at the Tel Aviv Art Museum. July 31, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
April 6, 2026, 1:52 am
Against the odds, Tel Aviv Museum of Art makes world’s top 100 for visits
Institution is ranked 77 globally, based on number of visitors in 2025, despite being closed for many days because of security situation
By Jessica Steinberg
The Israel Museum puts the long-awaited exhibit of the Isaiah Scroll away as Iran began launching missiles at Israel on February 28, 2026.(Courtesy)
March 1, 2026, 6:12 pm
Moving Isaiah: For fourth time since October 7, museums pack up artworks for safekeeping
As sirens sound throughout Israel and Iranian missiles rain down, curators and staff get to work, putting away valuable artifacts and art
By Jessica Steinberg and Rossella Tercatin
From 'Observation / The Field Observers of the Gaza Sector: A Video Installation' by Talya Lavie at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art through April 11, 2026 (Elad Sarig)
February 18, 2026, 8:00 am
Watching the watchers: Exhibit looks into the lives of IDF surveillance troops
In a new installation at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art until April 11, director Talya Lavie records testimonies by female field observers, commemorating work of those killed on Oct. 7
By Jessica Steinberg
Artist Judy Chicago is featured in two new Tel Aviv exhibits that opened September 18, 2025, at the Nassima Landau Art Foundation and Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Courtesy)
September 30, 2025, 11:24 am
Tel Aviv exhibits pose question, ‘What if women ruled the world?’
Nassima Landau and Tel Aviv Museum of Art open joint show about American Jewish artist Judy Chicago, including work with Pussy Riot activist artist Nadya Tolokonnikova
By Jessica Steinberg
Reuven Rubin's 'Tel Aviv Seashore' hosted at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, August through November 2025 (Courtesy Rubin Museum)
August 6, 2025, 12:23 pm
Reuven Rubin works hosted by TLV Museum of Art after Iran war damage
‘Reuven Rubin: Be My Guest’ exhibit reunites Rubin Museum collection with those from Tel Aviv Museum of Art
By Jessica Steinberg
A musical interlude at the Israel Museum on June 12, 2025, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the museum, hours before Israel attacked Iran. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )
June 18, 2025, 8:52 am
Iranian missiles force museums to move valuables to safe areas
Institutions transfer works and artifacts into safekeeping, after taking similar precautions following Oct. 7 and during previous Iranian attack
By Jessica Steinberg
From the interior of an infinity mirror room created by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, now part of the permanent collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, beginning in June 2025 (Credit Kfir Sivan)
May 26, 2025, 5:13 pm
Kusama infinity room joins Tel Aviv museum’s permanent display
Installation was included in Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s massive 2021 retrospective at Tel Aviv Museum of Art and is now returning home
By Jessica Steinberg
From 'The Garden' at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art by Yael Moria Studio MA (Credit Daniel Henoch)
May 1, 2025, 3:53 pm
A (fake) tree grows in Tel Aviv’s Museum of Art
‘The Garden’ juxtaposes fake flora and fauna with real trees and vegetation to explore urban nature
By Jessica Steinberg
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
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