Yuval Saar
By Yuval Saar
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The Schmooze A Virtual Warsaw Ghetto
Crossposted from Haaretz One of the first stops made by visitors to the new Warsaw Ghetto Uprising exhibit in the Yad Mordechai Museum, in Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, is the projection of a yellow star on their clothing. By moving your body, you put the virtual patch in the place where it belongs. It’s part of…
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The Schmooze When Is a Chair Not a Chair?
Crossposted from Haaretz A line of nine chairs greets the visitor to the exhibition “A chair is a chair is a chair” at the Paradigma design gallery in Tel Aviv. For a moment it seems as if they were placed there as part of a children’s game of “musical chairs.” The fact that these are…
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The Schmooze Marie Antoinette’s Tel Aviv Palace
Crossposted from Haaretz When he bought the house in Neve Tzedek four years ago, Boaz Monos knew Marie Antoinette’s palace would be the inspiration for its interior design. “I was very attracted to her image and she very quickly became a personal passion for me,” he says. “I read everything about her and visited every…
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The Schmooze Arik of All Trades
Crossposted from Haaretz “Who the f—k is Arik?” That’s what designer Arik Levy says his exhibition opening at the Alon Segev gallery in Tel Aviv this week could have been called, as the world-famous designer forays into the art world. “Everyone in Israel knows Arik the designer, but they don’t know Arik the artist at…
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