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‘Theatrical Gestures’ at the Herzlya Museum

The beautiful Saturday last week allowed us to walk to the local art museum which in the last few years hosted several interesting exhibitions, bringing together contemporary artists from Israel and from all around the world.     The theme … Continue reading

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‘Local Testimony 12’ – Israeli and World Press Photo Exhibition at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv

The annual exhibition of the best professional photo-journalism pictures of the year, as selected by the World Press jury combined with the selection of the best Israeli press photographs is open as each of the last few years at the … Continue reading

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The Glass Art Museum in the Desert

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

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

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

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

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

  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

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

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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