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Israeli Pavilion
The Israeli pavilion houses Israel's national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals. Background Organization and building The pavilion, designed by Zeev Rechter, was built between 1951 and 1952 and later restored by Fredrik Fogh in 1966. Representation by year Art * 1982 — Tamar Getter, Michal Na'aman * 1986 — Nubani Ibrahim , Asad azi * 1988 — Zadok Ben-David * 1990 — Ya'acov Dorchin * 1993 — Avital Geva * 1995 — Joshua Neustein, Uri Tzaig (Curator: Gideon Ofrat) * 1997 — Yossi Berger, Miriam Cabessa, Sigalit Landau * 2001 — Uri Katzenstein (Curator: Yigal Zalmona) * 2003 — Michal Rovner * 2005 — Guy Ben-Ner (Curator: Sergio Edelzstein) * 2007 — Yehudit Sasportas (Curator: Suzanne Landau) * 2009 — Raffi Lavie (Curator: Doreet LeVitte Harten) * 2011 — Sigalit Landau (Curators: Jean de Loisy, Ilan Wizga) * 2013 — Gilad Ratman (Curator: Sergio Edelstein) * 2015 — Tsibi Geva (Curator: Hadas Maor) * 2017 — Gal Wein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal Rovner
Michal Rovner ( he, מיכל רובנר; born 1957), also known as Michal Rovner Hammer, is an Israeli contemporary artist, she is known for her video, photo, and cinema artwork. Rovner is internationally known with exhibitions at major museums, including the Louvre (2011) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2002). Biography Michal Rovner was born 1957 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She studied Cinema/Television, and Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, and subsequently at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 1981, receiving a BFA degree in Photography and Art in 1985. In 1978, with artist Arie Hammer, she co-founded the private art school ''Camera Obscura School of Art'' in Tel Aviv, the city's first school for photographers. In 2005, the ''Camera Obscura School of Art'' closed due to financial reasons. She moved to New York City in 1987. Rovner was married to Arie Hammer. Rovner lives outside Jerusalem, where she has a small farm. Art career Rovner said about he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artsy
Artsy, formally known as Art.sy Inc is a New York City based online art brokerage. Its main business is developing and hosting website for numerous galleries as well as selling art for them. It utilizes a search engine and database to draw connections and map relationships among works of art. The brokerage was founded by Carter Cleveland, a Princeton University computer science graduate. It is currently led by Mike Steib, a former CEO of XO Group, the parent company of The Knot. Artsy has received financial backing from multiple investors. History Carter Cleveland, the son of an art historian, founded Artsy during his senior year at Princeton University and worked on the site from his dorm room. Cleveland's goal was for the site to serve as a place where users could discover art online. In May 2010, Artsy participated in the New York City conference, TechCrunch Disrupt, where they competed in the Startup Battlefield and received the Yahoo! Rookie Award! A yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARTnews
''ARTnews'' is an American visual-arts magazine, based in New York City. It covers art from ancient to contemporary times. ARTnews is the oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in the world. It has a readership of 180,000 in 124 countries. It includes news dispatches from correspondents, investigative reports, reviews of exhibitions, and profiles of artists and collectors. History and operations The magazine was founded by James Clarence Hyde in 1902 as ''Hydes Weekly Art News'' and was originally published eleven times a year. From vol. 3, no. 52 (November 5, 1904) to vol. 21, no. 18 (February 10, 1923), the magazine was published as ''American Art News''. From February 1923 to the present, the magazine has been published as ''The Art News'' then ''ARTnews''. The magazine's art critics and correspondents include Arthur Danto, Linda Yablonsky, Barbara Pollock, Margarett Loke, Hilarie Sheets, Yale School of Art dean Robert Storr, Doug McClemont and Museum of Modern Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gal Weinstein
Gal Weinstein ( he, גל וינשטיין) is an Israeli artist. Biography Gal Weinstein, born 1970, Ramat Gan, Israel. Lives and works in Tel Aviv. Education * 1992–1993 Theater Set Design, Tel Aviv University * 1993–1997 BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem Teaching * Art, High school, Kiryat Ono. * 2000–2008 Oranim, Academic College of Education, Kiryat Tivon * 2002–2008 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem * from 2008 Shenkar College, Multidisciplinary Art Department, Ramat Gan Awards and prizes * 1998 Prize for a Young Artist, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport * 1999 Artist-Teacher Fellowship, Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture * 2000 Artist-Teacher Fellowship, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport * 2001 Sharet Foundation Fellowship, Israel-America Fund for Culture * 2003 Hadassah and Rafael Klatchkin Grant for Art, America-Israel Cultural Foundation * 2004 Israel Cultural Excellence Award * 2004 Tel Aviv Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffi Lavie
Raffi Lavie art education, educator and music/art criticism, critic. Lavie's work is a cross between graffiti and abstract expressionism. Biography Rafael (Raffi) Lavi was born in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine, Mandate Palestine. He began teaching at HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts 1966. In the same year he was also a founder of the group ''Ten Plus''. Due to severe back problems, Lavie painted in his last years while sitting. On May 7, 2007, he died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Tel Aviv, aged 70. He donated his body to the University of Tel Aviv for research. Art career He studied at the HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, Art Teachers' Training College in Tel Aviv and later taught at the HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts in Ramat HaSharon. In the early 1960s, Raffi Lavie began to paint in spontaneous scrawls reminiscent of graffiti and comic strip art. He wrote on his paintings as if they were walls covered with scribbles. His work has been described as angry, nerv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haaretz
''Haaretz'' ( , originally ''Ḥadshot Haaretz'' – , ) is an Israeli newspaper. It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel, and is now published in both Hebrew and English in the Berliner format. The English edition is published and sold together with the ''International New York Times''. Both Hebrew and English editions can be read on the internet. In North America, it is published as a weekly newspaper, combining articles from the Friday edition with a roundup from the rest of the week. It is considered Israel's newspaper of record. It is known for its left-wing and liberal stances on domestic and foreign issues. As of 2022, ''Haaretz'' has the third-largest circulation in Israel. It is widely read by international observers, especially in its English edition, and discussed in the international press. According to the Center for Research Libraries, among Israel's daily newspapers, "''Haaretz'' is considered the most infl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Landau
Suzanne Landau ( he, סוזן לנדאו; born 1946) is an Israeli art museum curator. She was appointed the Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in August 2012. She had previously been Curator of Contemporary Art at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem starting 1982 and its Chief Curator of Fine Arts there from 1998. Since her appointment in Tel Aviv, she has organized for the museum the Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Acquisition Committee for Israeli Art. Early life and education Suzanne Landau was born in Czechoslovakia to a pair of Holocaust survivors who migrated to Israel in 1968 following the Prague Spring. She studied at the art orientated high school in Bratislava, and in 1966 started art history at the Comenius University, Bratislava. While visiting in Israel in 1968 with the group of students, the Russians troops invaded Czechoslovakia and Landau didn’t return. She continued her studies at the Hebrew University, working as an illustrator a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehudit Sasportas
Yehudit Sasportas ( he, יהודית סספורטס, born 1969) is an Israeli artist. She is active in Israel and Germany. In 1997 she was awarded the Ingeborg Bachman Scholarship for her work and in 1999 the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation prize. Biography Yehudit Sasportas was born in Ashdod in 1969. In her early works, for example, "Cradle" (1991) and "Trash Can Scale" (1996), she created three-dimensional structures based on images of household objects. Her work, "The Carpenter and the Seamstress" (2000), focuses on the architectural project of her parents apartment in housing project in Ashdod. In it she created a large installation from dimensions that combined sculpture and drawing. In the 2000s, her works began to include images from nature, mainly forests and swamps, and concrete and metaphorical dimensions. In addition, she began to work in the field of video. In 2007, she was the representative of Israel in The Guardians of the Threshold, 52 which took place at the Veni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Ben-Ner
Guy Ben-Ner ( he, גיא בן נר; born 1969) is an Israeli video artist. He lives and works in Tel Aviv, Berlin and New York City. Biography Guy Ben-Ner received a Bachelor of Arts in Education in 1997 from Hamidrasha School of Art and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in New York City in 2003. At Columbia, he studied under the critic Jerry Saltz. He is Dean of Hamidrasha School of Art at Beit Berl College. Art career Since the early 1990s, Ben-Ner has filmed a series of short videos starring himself and his family, often using the intimate spaces of their home as ''ad hoc'' set, studio, and fantastical playroom.Gallery Website*Simon, Joshua: Neomaterialism', Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2013. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ben-Ner, Guy Israeli video artists Sandberg Prize recipients Living people Jewish artists 1969 births Israeli contemporary artists HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts alumni Columbia University School of the Arts alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uri Katzenstein
Uri Katzenstein ( he, אורי קצנשטיין; February 17, 1951 – August 24, 2018) was an Israeli visual artist, sculptor, musician, builder of musical instruments and sound machines, and film maker. Background Uri was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1951 and was the only child of German-born parents who moved to Israel before the Holocaust. In his youth, he played music and joined several Rock bands. In 1969, he joined the Israeli Defense Forces and fought in the Yom Kippur War as a medic. During the late 1970s of the 20th century, Uri studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and after receiving his MFA moved to New York City where he lived and worked throughout the 1980s. His early works, starting from the late 1970s, involved different avant-garde media Exhibits, music, performance, video and sound art. In the mid-1990s of the 20th century, he began creating sculptured Figurines, in addition to objects and sound machines which were all merged and composed as one time-base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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