Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Sightings, sounds, and self-knowledge: Ten reasons to go out next week

Art, music, and dance come alive this week in Israel, from AI-driven installations to opera, jazz, and contemporary dance.

|ByNERIA BARR
Blindness by choice, Israeli opera.
‘Reuven Rubin: Be my Guest’ exhibition opening, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Reuven Rubin at Tel Aviv Museum of Art – a Zionist dream

'The paintings of Lavie, Gershuni, Aroch, and others give a wider, sometimes political context to Rubin. The key was tension between the figurative works of Rubin abstract work from our collection.'

|ByBASIA MONKA
RAN TENENBAUM, ‘Self Portrait with a Hoodie, 2024,’ from the new collection.

Tel Aviv Museum brings 35 new works by Israeli artists into its collection

Acquired through the ‘Voting for Art’ group, the works span a variety of genres, capturing a cross-section of contemporary Israeli creativity.

|ByNERIA BARR
SHIFF PRIZE WINNER Ilana Dotan.

Ilana Dotan wins the 2025 Shiff Prize for figurative-realist art

The Shiff Prize was founded in 2008 by collector Dubi Shiff in memory of his father, Haim Shiff, a hotelier and early supporter of Israeli art.

|ByNERIA BARR

GRAPEVINE: A sweet victory

JUNE 26, 2018ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Isaac Herzog

‘The Clock’ 24-hour video installation takes on the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

“It was wonderful to see it again,” Landau recalled. “It left me feeling euphoric. I was determined to acquire it for the [Tel Aviv] museum.”

APRIL 23, 2018ByBARRY DAVIS
'The Clock'

Musings at the museum

Rina Schenfeld premieres two pieces in Tel Aviv

JANUARY 25, 2018ByORI J. LENKINSKI
Rina Schenfeld

For the love of Louise: Iconic artist Louise Bourgeois spotlights 50 works

Louise Bourgeois is one of the most outstanding and radical artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

OCTOBER 8, 2017ByJESSICA VRAZILEK
Artist Louise Bourgeois's 'The Couple'.