Their works for this exhibition provided the students and graduates of art academies Shenkar and Bezalel, Haifa's Technion and Mihlelet Minhal.
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Beach Gallery in Bat Yam
Their works for this exhibition provided the students and graduates of art academies Shenkar and Bezalel, Haifa's Technion and Mihlelet Minhal.
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Originally reported by http://newsru.co.il
Jerusalem tries to get its cultural groove on
The turquoise gate of Barbur Gallery opens onto a stone courtyard and garden where secular and religious locals -- and the occasional tourist from Tel Aviv -- drop in for a look at the latest exhibit: a collection of black-ink drawings mixed with splashes of bold color. The gallery also is a regular gathering spot for lectures, movie screenings and musical performances.
Barbur is one of a growing number of independent art spaces here that along with booming music venues, a growing list of festivals and the newly redesigned Israel Museum is breathing fresh cultural energy -- and even a hipster edge -- into Jerusalem. Read more >>
Pressing Matters
Tablet Magazine
The Jerusalem Print Workshop, providing free workspace for artists, revives an artistic tradition in an ancient city struggling with changing demographics and religious tensions.
In 1576, Rabbi Eliezer Ben-Yitzchak Ashkenazi, a printer of religious texts driven from Prague by anti-Semitic edicts, arrived in the Holy Land by way of Lublin, Vienna, Constantinople, Rhodes, Sidon, and Damascus. Hauling his printing presses by horse cart, mule, and ship, Rabbi Eliezer finally settled, exhausted and nearly bankrupt, in Safed, in the Galilee. Though his shop was known to have printed only six books, it marked the birth of Hebrew printing in the Holy Land. Read more. See Gallery >>
A look in the mirror - Ofer Lellouche
An artist's biography, claims Ofer Lellouche, interferes with understanding his work. "They never ask a mathematician about his biography. But they ask an artist, because they think it's relevant," he says. "Van Gogh was known as a madman who cut off his ear. But the painter Van Gogh was not at all crazy. He progressed step by step: He did preparatory sketches, mixed colors, put them on the palette, took a paintbrush, put it on the canvas, cleaned the brush, took another color and applied it to the canvas. That's not a scribbler; that's a very calculated, very level-headed
painter."
For about three decades Lellouche, 63, has been considered a major painter and sculptor in the Israeli art world. At the same time his work appears frequently in exhibitions abroad, and it often seems that the focus of his artistic career is there. In the past decade he has had two major exhibits here, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the open museums in Tefen and Omer, plus another one in the Jaffa port. As of late June, his works are being exhibited alongside those of Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz and others in: "Albertina Contemporary: From Gerhard Richter to Kiki Smith" - the new permanent exhibition at one of the major classical art museums in western Europe: the Albertina in Vienna. Read more >>
Ofer Lellouche Self Portrait on a Transparent Mirror from Ofer Lellouche on Vimeo.
Israel's "Tales in the Sand" exhibition
Castles in the sand, Goldilocks, Cinderella, and even the Tower of Babel can be found at the Eretz Israel Museum outdoor exhibit “Tales in the Sand” which opens tomorrow, July 20, 2011. 18 giant sand sculptures, each about 4 meters high, have been created by sculptors from the World Sand Sculpting Academy in Hague and Israeli sculptors for a unique nighttime experience just right for summer.
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Dreaming of clouds of butterflies
Their ethereal wings take the name of David Gerstein, world-acclaimed Israeli artist whose works are displayed in an exceptional art exhibition titled "Infinity", at the National Gallery of Bangkok.
"We strive, we dream of a perfect veil of butterflies, but they are not real. They are perfumes of memories left behind, they are a dream of how life should be. In a puff of wind, they flap away," the artist said.
A forest of bicycles, human characters, and bouquets of flowers accompany the butterflies through the three themes of the exhibition - namely nature, urban life, and sport - and are reproduced with the same innocence and pleasure found in a child's drawing. Read more >>
Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar wins Screenplay award at Cannes
Joseph Cedar is a talented Orthodox Jewish Film Director that recently won the Best Screenplay award at the Cannes film festival in France for a movie called “Footnote ( He’arat Shulaim)” . Cedar has also done writing for movies. He has won several significant awards in the past for other films and for his directing ability, as well. Read more >>
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Micha Ullman on view at Israel Museum
Micha Ullman, born in Tel Aviv in 1939, is known for his subterranean outdoor installations, some of which barely protrude from the ground, and his sculptures made of iron and sand, which address such universal themes as home and place, and absence and emptiness. Read more >>
Beyond Hollywood: A Look at Israel Through Israeli Film
'Mabul (The Flood)' to open Jewish Film Festival
"Mabul" is a drama about an autistic son's return home to the collective farm where his troubled family lives.Director Guy Nattiv will attend the screening. The 6:30 p.m. show at the Castro Theatre will be followed by a party at the Swedish American Hall.
The 2011 festival, which ends Aug. 8, includes 38 features and 19 shorts from 16 countries, with screenings at the Castro, the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and three other Bay Area venues. Read more >>
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