| Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company Returns to Performing Internationally
In 2022, after a two-year moratorium on international performances due to the pandemic, the
‘Cinema Sabaya’ Wins Top Ophir Award, Will Represent Israel at the 2023 Oscars
The film Cinema Sabaya — from director Orit Fouks Rotem — is about a video workshop for female Arab and Jewish municipal workers. It recently won Best Picture at the Ophir Awards (commonly known as the Israeli Oscars), the prizes of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. As a result, Cinema Sabaya will be…
Major Exhibition of Japanese Artist Yayoi Kusama at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has held a major retrospective exhibition of works by the 93-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The exhibition — a first for the Jewish state — ran from mid-November 2021 to earlier this month. It included 250 artworks divided into Kusama’s different periods — starting with her upbringing in Japan,…
Hundreds of Israelis Get Buck Naked in Public to Keep the Dead Sea Alive
Photographs of a bunch of naked people standing on a beach — people whose skin has been painted snowy white — may not seem like a form of art to some. Don’t tell that to Spencer Tunick, a New York-based, Jewish-American photographer who has made his reputation in the art world by convincing large groups…
Different Styles and Movements: A Look Back at 100 Years of Art in Israel
Over the past century, Israeli visual art — beginning even before the establishment of the country in 1948 — has gone through a number of styles and movements, including the Tower of David movement (1920s-1930s), the Canaanite movement (1940s), the Conceptual Art movement (1970s), and the Contemporary Art movement (1990s – present). To learn about…
Batsheva Dance Company: Innovative and Influential Force in the World of Modern Dance
The Batsheva Dance Company, Israel’s premier dance troupe, was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv. Under the artistic leadership of Ohad Naharin (from 1990 to 2018), it developed a movement language known as Gaga. The Gaga/Dancers Track is what Batsheva trains in; it is geared toward professional dancers and specifically Batsheva’s. There…
The Museum of the Jewish People Is Open Again After Rebranding and Renovation
What was Tel Aviv’s Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora has been relaunched as ANU — Museum of the Jewish People. (“Anu” means “We” in Hebrew.) The museum underwent renovation and expansion — including the addition of a new wing — before its reopening under a new name. Among other things, it now features…
Yaacov Agam: World-Renowned Sculptor and Experimental Artist Best Known for His Kinetic Art
Yaacov Agam, 92, is the world’s best-known Israeli artist and sculptor. For some six decades, he has been exploring his signature style or abstract kinetic art, which shows movement when viewed from different angles. One of his most iconic sculptural pieces — the “Water and Fire Fountain”— has been at the center of Tel Aviv’s…
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