Ever the restless spirit, Tel Aviv-born architect and designer Ron Arad is still reinventing himself and his art
Arad, 75, was recently appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Israel News Israeli Students Design The Tiniest Of Tiny Toys — For Kinder Eggs
Correction, April 5, 11:44 a.m.: [An earlier version of this story stated that Bezalel Academy of Art and Design was part of Hebrew University. In fact, it is a separate entity located on the Hebrew University campus.] In my family, there used to be an ongoing dispute between me and my kids about the Kinder…
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The Schmooze Bezalel Graduates Hold Their Own
Crossposted From Under the Fig Tree Over the next few weeks, those seeking respite from the clamor of talking heads should make a beeline for the Corcoran College of Art + Design where the work of recent graduates of Israel’s storied Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is on display. The exhibition will take your…
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The Schmooze Homage to Nachum Gutman
Crossposted from Haaretz The connection between Nachum Gutman (1898-1980) and graduate students at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem is not arbitrary, say curators of the exhibition “What Does It Mean to Interpret a Tradition?” “Gutman was one of the first students at Boris Schatz’s old Bezalel, and his oeuvre, especially that…
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The Schmooze The Future of Israeli Design
Crossposted from Haaretz What could possibly be done that is new at an exhibition of works of graduates of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design visual communications department — especially after the successful exhibition curated last year by Yael Burstein in the same space? On the surface there is nothing revolutionary about what the…
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The Schmooze ‘Jaffa Road Botox Party’
Crossposted from Haaretz The writing was on the wall regarding the urban renewal projects on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem and the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. Urban renewal has become just another word for gentrification, higher prices, uprooting working-class residents and small businesses, widening the gap between rich and poor — all in…
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The Schmooze Slideshow: Paintings That Hang in the Balance
As you stand in the Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, you can’t be sure if the figures in Joshua Meyer’s multi-layered oil paintings are emerging toward you or receding away into a complex sea of colors. That lack of certainty suits the artist just fine, as he considers his paintings to reside in “a…
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The Schmooze Bezalel Can’t Go Home Again
Crossposted from Haaretz For a moment it seemed that the Bezalel Art Academy had decided to back down: shelving a plan to build a new campus in the center of Jerusalem, developed by an international team of architects which won a design competition five years ago. For a moment it seemed possible to believe that…
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