Category Archives: art

The Glass Art Museum in the Desert

Posted on December 31, 2012 by admin

Did I already say that I love exploring small art museums? Of course, I also love even more visiting the great museums of the world, but the experience of finding a small museum in a not-so-important city, in a remote … Continue reading →

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Erica Hoffer – La New York, pe poteci mai putin batute

Posted on December 6, 2012 by admin

Erica Hoffer mi-a permis preluarea pe blog a notelor ei de calatorie din vizita facuta recent la New York. De aceasta data va fi vorba despre cateva expozitii si muzee mai mici, din acelea pe care placerea de a le … Continue reading →

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‘Double Vision’ – Contemporary Art from Japan at the Tikotin Museum

Posted on November 17, 2012 by admin

The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art and the Haifa Museum of Art organized in Haifa what is probably the most important exhibition of contemporary art from Japan ever hold in Israel with the occasion of the 60 years since Japan … Continue reading →

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‘Encounters in Edvard Munch’s Space’ at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Posted on October 13, 2012 by admin

Twenty years ago Liliana and me visited Paris for the first time in our lives. It was a memorable trip from many respects, and one of the major highlights of that first encounter with the magic city was the exhibition … Continue reading →

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Art: ‘All His Sons: The Brueghel Dynasty’ at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Posted on October 12, 2012 by admin

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art hosts during these months one of the most interesting exhibition of classical masters paintings that I have seen lately. All His Sons: The Bruegel Dynasty gathers works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, of his … Continue reading →

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Anselm Kiefer at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Posted on April 18, 2012 by admin

  We succeeded last Saturday to catch the last day of the exhibition of Anselm Kiefer, without doubt one of the most important exhibitions of a non-Israeli contemporary artist to open in Israel in the last few years. The German … Continue reading →

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From Dada to Surrealism – The Exhibition

Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin

At last I succeeded to get to Jerusalem and visit the exhibition I have already read so much about, witnessed so many discussions and disputes, and even written about its catalog, or better say the catalog of the first staging … Continue reading →

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Art in the Factory

Posted on January 7, 2012 by admin

Connecting art and factories and relating art with the working classes may seem like communist ideals, but here is one big ‘capitalist’ industrial corporation that invested in art and the results are more visible and beneficial. French car-maker Renault started … Continue reading →

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From Dada to Surrealism – The Catalog

Posted on October 8, 2011 by admin

The turn of events made that I first received the catalog of the the exhibition From Dada to Surrealism dedicated to the Jewish Avant-Garde Artists from Romania organized at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. I visited Amsterdam in May, … Continue reading →

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Themerson & Themerson

Posted on October 4, 2011 by admin

I knew nothing about Stefan and Franciszka Themerson before seeing the documentary directed by Wiktoria Szymanska on ARTE TV. The film starts by filming the couple of artists – he was a writer, a composer and a film maker, she … Continue reading →

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