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Yakov Agor, Photographer at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Posted on September 21, 2011 by admin

Let me cross the street (over the bridge) for this posting and remember one of the exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art that Liliana and me visited last Friday morning. I will be back with impressions about other … Continue reading →

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Štěpán Pala at Litvak

Posted on September 20, 2011 by admin

The Slovak artist Štěpán Pala belongs visibly to the school of Vaclav Cigler. He uses the optical glass as well although his preferred technique of melting and molding the glass is different. The three works exposed at the Freedom to … Continue reading →

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Johnny Raducanu (1931 – 2011)

Posted on September 19, 2011 by admin

Johny Raducanu was one of the best jazz-men of Romania, maybe the best ever. He was a complex artist, descendent of a dinasty of musicians, he played the piano and the bass, he taught and inspired for decades many generations … Continue reading →

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Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová at Litvak

Posted on September 18, 2011 by admin

Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova are two of the most influential names in the development of glass art in the second half of the 20th century. They were married for almost four decades and during this period they created together … Continue reading →

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Film: Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Emir Kusturica, 1981)

Posted on September 17, 2011 by admin

The first scene of ‘Sjecas li se Dolly Bell’ (‘Do You Remember Dolly Bell’) happens in a tern meeting room, where old people debate the dire state of the morals of the youth and decide that what they need to … Continue reading →

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‘Beyond the Glass Curtain’ at the Litvak Gallery

Posted on September 16, 2011 by admin

Liliana and me spent today a morning in the exhibitions in Tel Aviv. We first visited the collective exhibition of Czech glass art opened last week at the Litvak Gallery, then we crossed the bridge and strolled in a few … Continue reading →

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Carte: John Le Carre – Our Kind of Traitor

Posted on September 13, 2011 by admin

Spionajul si soarta si dilemele oamenilor angrenati in acesta activitate este subiect pentru literatura britanica de mai bine de un secol, inca din perioada in care imperiul unde soarele nu apune niciodata inca mai exista si se lupta pentru supravietuire … Continue reading →

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Film: Eu sunt Adam! (Dan Pita, 1996)

Posted on September 12, 2011 by admin

‘Eu sunt Adam!’ (‘I am Adam!’) is a 1001 nights story that takes place in the inferno. The role of Seherazada is played by a professor of music in the 1950s, the years of the worst repression under the Communist … Continue reading →

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Documentary: Waste Land (2010)

Posted on September 11, 2011 by admin

In one of the several memorable sequences in ‘Waste Land’ world famous artist Vik Muniz teaches his audiences about looking at art in a museum. People tend, he tells them, to get closer to the painting, then farther, then closer, … Continue reading →

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Jazz: Ramon Valle and Denise Jannah in Tel Aviv

Posted on September 10, 2011 by admin

The new season of the Hot Jazz series at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art started started this year earlier than usual. A new and better Web site, a Facebook group and video presentations by the series organizer Ziv Ben … Continue reading →

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