Dead: A Celebration of Mortality, Saatchi Gallery, review: Going face to face with the Grim Reaper
Opened to little fanfare, this is an anomaly among Charles Saatchi’s recent exhibitions. It is short-lived, it is thematic rather than being a geographical survey or having a focus on a particular More...
Good News from Israel: Massive Increase in International Investments in Israeli Companies
In the 25th Jan 2015 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include: · Johnson & Johnson and Takeda have started a biotech incubator in Israel. · 2014 saw a massive More...
Sudanese Journalist Sued for Handshake with Israeli Ambassador
The secretary general of the Sudanese Journalists Union Salah Omer Alshaikh, who is also the director of a Sudanese company, SodaExpo, was sued on Tuesday for shaking the hand of the Israeli ambassador More...
Zigi Ben-Haim in Conversation with Curator Nira Itzhaki
During the 70’s, after completing his MFA studies in California, the artist Zigi Ben-Haim (born in Bagdad, Iraq, raised in Israel)arrived in SoHo, New York, where he resides and works till More...
Cindy Sherman Presents Photographic Contortions in ‘The Fetching Blemish” Show
Cindy Sherman Untitled #362 from the Hollywood/Hampton Types series 2000, color coupler print mounted on foamcore 27 x 18 inches 68.6 x 45.7 cm Edition 3/6 signed, numbered and dated ‘Cindy Sherman More...
Churchill Versus Hitler As Painters: Guess Who Wins?
It is enough to restore one’s faith in art as well as humanity. Churchill might have had his human foibles, but he is justifiably and pretty much unanimously regarded as having been a better human being More...
NY Historical Society to Showcase Annie Leibovitz
The New York Historical Society is currently displaying an exhibit titled Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage, which showcases photographs taken by Leibovitz simply because she was moved by the subject. The More...
Tel Aviv Museum Dream Weavers Exhibit Celebrates Jewish Fashion Designers
The new Dream Weavers exhibition at Tel Aviv’s Diaspora Museum tells the story of the world’s most significant Jewish fashion designers. The exhibit covers Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Alber Elbaz, More...
Racy Letters from Arthur Miller to Marilyn Monroe on Display
Racy letters written by Marilyn Monroe’s third husband, playwright Arthur Miller, as well as other items, are on display at Newbridge-Silverware’s Museum of Style Icons, according to Yahoo More...
Smart City Expo World Congress Declares Tel Aviv World’s Smartest City
Tel Aviv has been named the world’s smartest city by the Smart City Expo World Congress held in Barcelona. It beat out 250 cities around the world. The main reason for the city’s victory was its new Digi-Tel More...