Daniel Rauchwerger
By Daniel Rauchwerger
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The Schmooze Israel Museum to Feature Interactive Movie Screen
Crossposted from Haaretz A huge, interactive movie screen made by Israeli designer Ron Arad will be the backdrop to films and performances at the Israel Museum in August. The cylindrical installation at the Jerusalem museum is one of dozens of exhibits, events and activities that make up this year’s Jerusalem Season of Culture, which begins…
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The Schmooze Italian Renaissance, Tel Aviv Style
Crossposted from Haaretz Entering the Tel Aviv studio of artist Lenny Dinar Dothan one encounters hospitality amid charming disorder. Sawdust is scattered everywhere, among the saws, rulers, pencils and books. Propped up against the wall are some of her works, among them a painting in which she is seen nursing her little son against the…
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The Schmooze Final Strokes of the Brush
Crossposted from Haaretz A Beethoven symphony plays in the background as light rain falls. Artist Ruth Schloss, wrapped in a blanket, reclines in a lounge chair. Now at the age of 90, she drifts in and out of sleep during the course of the day. She is living her life in the present continuous with…
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The Schmooze Work Destroyed by Israeli Customs: Artist
Crossposted from Haaretz Careless customs officials apparently destroyed works by a prominent Israeli artist that had been sent back to Israel after being shown at the Venice Biennale. Sigalit Landau discovered last week that her works, which had returned to Israel packed in a shipping container, had been dismantled with what she called “brutality and…
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The Schmooze A Museum Director to Play Ping-Pong With
Crossposted from Haaretz Former Tel Aviv Museum of Art director Professor Mordechai Omer was complex, comprehensive, multilayered, beloved and controversial at one and the same time. In his various roles, he influenced thousands of people. “We’re left with a large black hole, and it will be a tough assignment to find a replacement who can…
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The Schmooze ‘Close to the Sun’
Crossposted from Haaretz Last Friday, a day before the opening of his solo show, “NU,” at the Dvir Gallery (Hangar 2, the Jaffa port), Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed looked relatively calm. His works, which arrived last week, had been carefully and slowly unboxed and set up, one behind the other, in the large, darkened space….
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The Schmooze Rappaport Prize Awarded to Artists Asaf Ben Zvi and Michael Halak
Crossposted from Haaretz The Tel Aviv Museum of Art announced the selection of painters Asaf Ben Zvi and Michael Halak as the winners of the 2011 Rappaport Prize. This is the sixth prize awarded since its establishment in 2006 in honor of Ruth and Baruch Rappaport. The prize is awarded annually to two painters, an…
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The Schmooze Berlin Displays ‘Degenerate’ Art Banned By Nazis
Crossposted from Haaretz Eleven sculptures classified as “degenerate art” by Hitler’s Nazis more than 70 years ago went on display at Berlin’s New Museum yesterday after being unearthed at a building site in the city center. Among the surprise finds, which date from the early 20th century, are bronzes by Otto Baum, Marg Moll, Edwin…
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