Culture in Tel Aviv

Three artists, three questions: Recurring motifs through chaos and order

Three artists, three questions, and a shared urge to find order in chaos through repetition, light, and form.

Ariel Hacohen
Two exhibitions of Judy Chicago's work were staged in Tel Aviv in 2025.

Judy Chicago’s feminist art lands in Tel Aviv, igniting boycott call, hard questions about Israel

A SCENE from ‘Dido and Aeneas’

After October 7, Purcell’s 'Dido and Aeneas' rings truer than ever

Milan is one of the city’s most stunning new residential developments

Luxury by the Sea: Move-In-Ready Apartments in the Heart of Tel Aviv


Puccini’s Madama Butterfly soars at HaYarkon Park

A 20-year annual tradition of Opera in the Park reached a high point, with this year’s deeply performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

 MADAM BUTTERFLY at HaYarkon Park.

Chinese artists bring their work to Tel Aviv

Nassima Landau Art Foundation crosses frontiers with contemporary art.

Hou Zichou next to his work.

Made for the mandolin: Avi Avital returns to his homeland

An Israeli musician spreads the instrumental word far and wide


RetroAct - a young band looking retro

With a new album in the works, an assortment of shows planned and a more official tour slated for later this year, RetroAct’s trajectory is heading skywards.

 RETROACT with Elisha Ledgely, left.

The Taiko Life Israel troupe brings Far Eastern flavors and beats

The Taiko Life concert at the Felicja Blumental Festival will demonstrate the traditional drumming art form, seasoned here and there with some Western and other colors.

 THE ANCIENT Art of taiko drumming.

The new opera ‘Theodor’ shows Herzl's struggles to find solutions

The life of one of Zionism’s greatest champions has been adapted into an opera, showing his hardships as he sought a solution to the plight of Jews.

 ‘THEODOR,’ A new Hebrew-language production at the Israeli Opera.

New TAMA art exhibit offers glimpse into the mind of Alberto Giacometti

The new exhibit will bring together 130 works, spanning the four decades of Giacometti’s career, from the early 1920s to the artist’s death in 1966.

 Alberto Giacometti, Le Chien (Der Hund), 1951.

A dinner in hell: 18th century opera set to appear on Israeli stage

Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ beckons at the Israeli Opera

 MOZART ALLOWS Don Giovanni’s entry into many lives.

Ramat Gan art museum reopens with new exhibits

ART ROUNDUP: These exhibits are not to be missed.

 WORKS  BY Eliran Jan, Karen Knorr and Pavel Wolberg are part of ‘The Language of the Liminal’ at the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art.

Mahler musings

Former JSO conductor Leon Botstein returns to Jerusalem for a Mahler bash

 LEON BOTSTEIN:  Symphony no. 6 is an impressive symphonic experience and it is extremely gratifying to play. (Matt Dine)