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The Israel Museum Announces Two Senior Curatorial Appointments in its Edmond and Lily Safra Fine Arts Wing

Israel Museum Announces Two Senior Curatorial Appointments in its Edmond and Lily Safra Fine Arts Wing Rita Kersting Appointed as New Curator of Contemporary Art Mira Lapidot Promoted to Chief ... Read more »
August 7, 2012 | Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Mira Lapidot, Rita Kersting
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Christian Marclay's Masterpiece The Clock Jointly Acquired by the Israel Museum, Centre Pompidou and Tate

Christian Marclay, The Clock, 2010, Film Still
From the Israel Museum: Jerusalem, February 1, 2012 – The Israel Museum is pleased to announce the joint acquisition of Christian Marclay's video work The Clock (2010), together with the Cent ... Read more »
February 1, 2012 | Centre Pompidou, Christian Marclay, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Tate, The Clock
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Ron Arad, Jack Persekian, and James Snyder listed as the Top 100 Most Influential People in the Art World by Les Journal des Artes

Ron Arad
Ron Arad, Architect; Jack Persekian, Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation and Al-Mamal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem; and James Snyder, Director of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem are ... Read more »
February 18, 2011 | Al Mamal Foundation For Contemporary Art, Design Museum Holon, Israel Museum, Jack Persekian, James Snyder, Jerusalem, Journal Des Artes, Ron Arad, Sharjah Art Foundation
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"Elevated," Matthew Fishbane on the Israel Museum for Tablet Magazine

Anish Kapoor, Turning The World Upside Down (2010), Jerusalem
The Israel Museum’s impressive $100 million renovation awkwardly attempts to redefine the Jewish world. James Snyder, director of the Israel Museum since 1997 and overseer of its recent $100 ... Read more »
August 12, 2010 | Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Matthew Fishbane, Tablet Magazine
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Israel Museum Awards Michal Heiman First Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography

Michal Heiman, Attacks on Linking (2003-2006), banners
Heiman Selected by International Jury to Receive $40,000 for Research on the Use of Photography in Psychoanalysis and Diagnostic Testing The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, has selected artist Michal ... Read more »
August 1, 2010 | Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Shpilman International Prize, Michal Heiman
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The Israel Museum: One for the Ages in the LA Times, by Suzanne Muchnic

Olafur Eliasson, Whenever the Rainbow Appears, the Israel Museum
"Reporting from Jerusalem — In the late 1950s, when Teddy Kollek took on the challenge of establishing a major art museum in Jerusalem, he might have been whistling in the desert wind. The state ... Read more »
August 1, 2010 | Israel Museum, Los Angeles Times, Suzanne Muchnic