Israel Museum

Not sheepish: Israel Museum reveals a different side of Menashe Kadishman’s art

As an exhibition currently on display at the Israel Museum clearly demonstrates, there was a lot more to the late, internationally renowned Israel Prize-winning artist than just funky farm animals.

MENASHE KADISHMAN’S 1975 ‘Laundry Forest’ installation outside the Israel Museum invited the public into the work.
Kosher nibbles – Latin-Mediterranean style (see Friday).

Jerusalem highlights: September 18-24

Meital Covo's 'Audio Walk' offers a contemplative curative experience for all.

Can sound heal? Inside Overtones, the Israel Museum exhibition turning sound into an art form

"The Castle of the Pyrenees" a painting by famous Belgian artist Rene Magritte is seen on a wall as a laborer on a ladder prepares the Israel Museum of Jerusalem for a re-opening.

Belgian collector lends rare René Magritte work to Israel Museum during painting restoration


Haifa Museum of Art opens new season today

Haifa Museum of Art's new season includes video-art works by Albanian-Italian artist Adrian Paci and a comprehensive solo exhibition by painter Anna Lukashevsky.

 THE WANDERERS’ by Adrian Paci.

Jerusalem Highlights February 11–17, 2022

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 'FACING ANNAPURNA' by Ezra Orion.

Jerusalem highlights: Week of Dec. 31, 2021 – January 7, 2022

What's new in Israel's capital in the upcoming week

 ENJOY THE winter season with hot soup. (Illustrative)

Israel Museum appoints new director

Weil succeeds Professor Ido Bruno, who completed his tenure on November 30.

 Denis Weil, new director of the Israel Museum.

Ruth Schreiber brings Jews and Germans together through art

This is further proof of ordinary Germans’ concern for their collective history, and that their Jewish neighbors should not be forgotten.

 ‘Wall of Masks’ made of paper, reversed black and white photo copies of the original letters, now in Yad Vashem. Schreiber used her son and daughter as models for the molds of faces for her grandfather and grandmother. This grid exhibits 150 of the 200 masks she made.

This week in Jerusalem: Shabbat rumblings

A round-up of city affairs.

 ISRAELI POLICE clash with demonstrators following the death of Ahuvia Sandak last year, at the entrance to Jerusalem, November 6.

Abracadabra: Israel Museum exhibit explores Jewish magic

A new exhibition features rare artifacts, including the earliest known instance of the Shema prayer used in a Jewish amulet.

 Manuscript of practical Kabbalah. Ukraine, ca. 1740, handwritten ink on paper. From the Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv

'Objects', an exhibit highlighting Kristallnacht, appears in Israeli museum

Suly translates the historical and socio-cultural origins of the raw materials, dismantles, examines, reassembles and transforms them into unique art creations in a style known as "ready-made."

 Art Exhibit: 'Objects' by Suly Bornstein Wolff appears in Israeli museum

Jerusalem highlights: Week of August 13-19

Don't know what to do in Jerusalem the coming week? Here's a list of suggestions to enrich your summer.

 Tristram's starling in Masada. Why not take a detective course at the Nili and David Jerusalem Bird Observatory and find such pretty birds yourself?

Israel Museum debuts 'Divine Food' exhibition

“It is about how people exploit the symbols in which we believe, in order to generate personal wealth or, maybe, they really do believe in the symbol.”

 CURATOR YVONNE FLEITMAN wanted to convey the scale and beauty of a Mayan temple.