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Kiev/Tel Aviv/Berlin: Zoya is Back Home, April 2010

Zoya, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (2005)
Four years ago, right before opening her solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum displaying her paintings alongside bronze sculptures of human feces (a show in which almost all of the works were so ... Read more »
April 1, 2010 | Berlin, Boaz Arad, Kiev, Roee Rosen, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum, Uri Katzenstein, Vardit Gross, Zoya Cherkassky
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Review of "Hugging and Wrestling" in ARTnews, April 2010

Rona Yefman, Pippi Longstocking, the Strongest Girl in the World, at Abu Dis (2006), video still
For this politically multifaceted and often emotional exhibition, curator Margo Crutchfield brought together work by nine Israeli artists, most of whom are based in Tel Aviv. The selection ranged ... Read more »
April 1, 2010 | Artnews, Museum Of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Rina Castelnuovo, Steven Litt, Tanja Schlander, Michal Rovner, Rona Yefman
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The Fantastic World of Yossi and Itamar

Yossi and Itamar, Still from video 1
Two young men, dressed in jeans and army shirts, are knocking on doors in a small town in Israel, asking people to donate to the Israeli Army. It is the day of the Telethon – an annual national ... Read more »
April 1, 2010 | Vardit Gross, Yossi and Itamar
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Online Video Archive by the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon

Charlotte Cotton, Words Without Pictures
For the last several years, an archive for video art and digital media has been operating and building at the Israeli Center for Digital Art. The archive contains more than 1,750 titles by Israeli ... Read more »
April 1, 2010 | Holon, Sean Snyder, The Israeli Center For Digital Art
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"Yael Bartana’s Polish Trilogy" in Art Review, by Joshua Mack

Yael Bartana, Mur I Weiza (Wall and Tower), 2009, film still.
Could there have been a more apt moment for Yael Bartana to premiere her last two projects in Israel than during the concurrent celebrations of Passover and Holy Week at the beginning of the month ... Read more »
April 1, 2010 | Art Review, Joshua Mack, Yael Bartana
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An Introduction to the Jerusalem Contemporary Art Scene

Like the city itself, the Jerusalem art scene is defined by extremes. On the one hand, it hosts some of the most established artistic and cultural institutions in Israel. On the other, it frequent ... Read more »
March 1, 2010 | Avi Sabah, Barbur, Denis Mashkevitz, Diego Rotman, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Foundation, Lea Mauas, Masha Zusman, Yanai Segal