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Conversation with Yona Fischer and Tamar Manor-Friedman from "The Birth of Now: Art in Israel in the 1960s" (2008)

Arie Aroch, Red House (1960)
From the catalog "The Birth of Now" TMF: The opening question has been with us since we began work on this exhibition – is it possible, and how should one, summarize ten years of creative wor ... Read more »
August 1, 2008 | Tamar Manor-friedman, Yona Fischer
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Foreword to "The Birth of Now: Art in Israel in the 1960s"

Lea Nikel, Untitled (1962)
By Yona Fischer and Tamar Manor-Friedman The attempt to address, in a single exhibition or catalogue, a decade of artistic creation in Israel, namely the second decade – 1959 to 1968 – cons ... Read more »
August 1, 2008 | Tamar Manor-friedman
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Check-Post: Art in Israel in the 1980's

Micha Kirshner, Tami Ben Ami (1962) (detail)
By Ilana Tenenbaum The 1980's were a period of great changes in the Israeli art field. And although only a fraction of these came to full fruition during the decade itself, several of the perio ... Read more »
August 1, 2008 |
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Introduction to "Eventually We'll Die: Young Art in Israel of the Nineties"

Meir Gal, Erasing the Major Museums
By Doron Rabina The concluding decade of both a century and a millennium, the 1990s in Israel were characterized by a cultural boom, fueled by the euphoria over the Oslo Accords and the dream o ... Read more »
August 1, 2008 | Six Decades Of Israeli Art, Nelly Agassi, Guy Ben-Ner, Miriam Cabessa, Shibetz Cohen, Uri Gershuni, Nir Hod, Miki Kratsman, Tal Matzliach, Ohad Meromi, Adi Nes, Roee Rosen, Hanna Sahar, Yehudit Sasportas, Sharon Yaari
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The End of Days and New Beginnings: Reflections on Art in Israel 1998-2007

Sigalit Landau, MoMA Projects 87 (2008), barbed salt lamps
By Amitai Mendelsohn Your sons and daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams,and your young men shall see visions. (Joel 3:1) Any attempt to identify the main directions and in ... Read more »
August 1, 2008 | Six Decades Of Israeli Art, Yael Bartana, Zoya Cherkassky, Barry Frydlender, Michal Helfman, Nir Hod, Sigalit Landau, Ohad Meromi, Adi Nes, Uri Nir, Gilad Ratman, Roee Rosen, Yehudit Sasportas, Miri Segal, Gil Marco Shani, Tal Shochat, Gal Weinstein
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Some Thoughts on Izhar Patkin

Izhar Patkin, The Veil Suite (2007), ink on pleated illusion
It may be the nature of our time that those who reveal what we would rather not acknowledge are ignored or worse, expelled. This may seem clearly true in the world of politics and social relations ... Read more »
February 1, 2008 | Izhar Patkin