Art

Beneath a German lake, above a Nazi bunker: Israeli artist explores buried memory - feature

Israeli artist Yehudit Sasportas explores memory, trauma, and the passage of time through clay mines inscribed with Hebrew letters and submerged in a German lake above a Nazi-era bunker.

The Mine Film 2026 – Lake of Void.
YIGAL OZERI’S ‘Forgotten Motel,’ 30x30 inches, oil on canvas, 2026.

Tel Aviv's Zemack Gallery goes on an American Dream ‘Road Trip’ with artist Yigal Ozeri

ALLENBY STATION, Tel Aviv. The exhibition aims to bring culture directly into public spaces traversed by thousands of commuters every day.

Eretz Israel Museum to host 'MUZA on the Line' at Tel Aviv Light Rail's Allenby station

Azerbaijan State Academic Russian Drama Theatre.

Israeli Choreographer Shahar Binyamini and Gesher Theatre to feature in Baku


Expansive exhibition in Jaffa gives Gaza border artists a chance to air their trauma

An expansive exhibition in Jaffa gives artists from Gaza border communities a chance to air their trauma

KFAR AAZA multidisciplinary artist Shosh Segev pays tribute to the tree that saved her life on Oct. 7.

Jerusalem Biennale turns art into catalyst for post-October 7 healing

Alongside the exhibitions, the seven-week program will include gallery discussions, artist and curator talks, guided tours, workshops, performances, and special events.

THE BIENNALE'S central exhibition, "Or Chozer (Reflected Light)."

New art for a New Year: Jerusalem Artists House unveils a new set of exhibitions - review

Judging by the latest set, culture consumers can look forward to a year of quality showings across numerous styles, subgenres, and mindsets.

Ori Livne’s ethereal red-hued works draw on the past and allude to fading memory.

LA Jewish Federation sues museum to recover Nazi-looted paintings held by Hermann Göring

LA Jewish Federation sues to recover Nazi-looted paintings once held by Hermann Göring.

Black and white photographs of the Adam and Eve Diptych painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Peter Max, Jewish psychedelic pop artist and leader in 'flower power' movement, dies at 88

His ties to Israel surfaced throughout his work. Among his Jewish and Israeli-themed pieces was "36 Rabins," a series of portraits of assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. 

Pop artist Peter Max poses in his New York studio on June 18, 2012 with seven portraits he created of Sir Paul McCartney to commemorate McCartneys 70th birthday.

When politics invades art, an Israeli artist seeks common ground at the Venice Biennale

Belu-Simion Fainaru, our representative at the Venice Biennale, struts his creative stuff and rolls with the anti-Israel punches.

ITALIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER MATTEO SALVINI (R) took time out to visit the Israeli pavilion.

Jerusalem highlights: September 11-17

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

Avi Kaiser and Sergio Antonino (see Tuesday).

Two three-day cultural festivals to mark Sukkot with poetry, dance, and eco-tours

At Confederation House, the poetry festival operates under the theme “Poets Are Called Alive in Death.” The event utilizes the traditional sukkah as a metaphor for an inner artistic sanctuary.

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and his students hold the Four Species as they attend a morning prayer during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in Katzrin, northern Israel, on October 12, 2025.

Returning to the mountain: A Rosh Hashanah homecoming in Safed

Safed has spent 500 years turning brokenness into renewal. Today, its ancient stone alleys hold a living landscape of healing, spirituality, art, food, and community.

One of the Way Inn's ten guest rooms, each individually designed around a sefirah, the Kabbalistic emanations that shape the boutique hotel's color, character, and architecture.

To play or not to play: A Swiss theater director comes to Israel to test the murky Wagnerian waters

Milo Rau is clearly determined to dive into the multi-layered, dense underbelly of various situations to divine the whys and wherefores and, hopefully, uncover the real state of play. 

BAYREUTH FESTIVAL HALL in Germany, built specifically for the performance of Wagner’s stage works.