Tel Aviv Museum of Art strikes colonialist tone with 'Regarding Africa' exhibit
There is no pain and no suffering in an exhibition that presents an Africa without wars and violence, ignoring history along with the present day
View ArticleDetroit-area synagogue cancels Israeli singer Noa's concert due to threats
'I will not be deterred by this insane witch hunt,' singer Achinoam Nini, a.k.a. Noa, says
View ArticleBatsheva's latest: Dancing 'elephants,' rap and Gregorian chants color new...
'Venezuela,' by veteran Batsheva choreographer Ohad Naharin, is intriguing and features superb dancers, but is less fully realized than his other efforts
View ArticleIsraeli general Moshe Dayan, beyond the eye patch
An exhibition about the Dayans shows a family that shifted direction toward the world of art, and which in today’s Israel no longer embodies nationalist yearnings
View ArticleIsrael Museum exhibit explores the role cats and dogs play in our lives
Jerusalem exhibit displays videos, sculptures and paintings that focus on cats and dogs' connection with humans and their place in ancient religious rituals
View ArticleThe unfulfilled potential of an Israeli singer's Farsi album
Liraz has said she’s been getting excited reactions from Iranian listeners, but our music critic wasn't impressed
View ArticleThe Druze band that fuses Tuareg blues with Arab rock
TootArd's new direction works particularly well in its instrumental tracks
View ArticleU.S. rock band Black Lips coming to Israel on August 22
Black Lips, known for its wild performances, performed in Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 2007
View ArticleBritney Spears in Tel Aviv: A faded stage persona and a deep sense of playback
Britney’s main weapon: She’s Britney, bitch. But that wasn't enough
View ArticleThe Israeli behind the internet's largest foot fetish website
WikiFeet founder Eli Ozer says he's got 3 million users a month checking out the photos of celeb feet. Ozer says 'the rankings don't really focus on the feet but rather takes the whole into account....
View ArticleTel Aviv art show exposes the aesthetic of the occupation
It’s rare to see an exhibition in which equal weight is given to both the Palestinian-Israeli narrative and the Jewish-Israeli one
View ArticleGuns N' Roses returns to its natural habitat - and doesn't disappoint
There's Axl singing and playing the piano, and here's Slash playing his solo, and then a dramatic break - and then there it is, that fabulous outro. Live. It was great to be alive
View Article'Mama, I fell in love with a Jew': Behind Palestinian rap group's newest song
Tamer Nafar and Mahmood Jrere of Palestinian rap group DAM want to inject some humor into politics of coexistence between Jews and Arabs in Israel
View ArticleIsraeli Arab singer slams BDS activists calling on Radiohead to cancel Tel...
'Those who call for boycott are only trying to divide us,' Nasreen Qadri writes in Newsweek op-ed
View ArticleBDS activist and Radiohead critic Ken Loach slammed for screening his films...
Loach's Israeli distributor tells The Guardian he's bought films from the director 'every year' and says Loach feels 'exempt from the cultural boycott' he promotes
View ArticleThis artist didn't steal from Auschwitz, but rather, from other artists
Even after the international outcry over the items Rotem Bides was accused of stealing from Auschwitz, her work is still interesting
View ArticleIsraeli trailblazer of fashion by 3-D printer keeps moving into future
Danit Peleg now offering bomber jackets on her website with virtual fitting sessions
View ArticleIsraeli painter Aviv Benn's works channel hell frozen over
A new exhibition by Aviv Benn in Tel Aviv features fine work of high plastic qualities, fraught with residues of American painting as it morphed from abstract to figurative
View ArticleIsraeli artist Shy Abady explores the failure of modern Judaism
An exhibition of portraits that features lesser known or errant offspring in Jewish history positions the ‘Arab Jew’ as the necessary extreme of the dynasty
View ArticleHolding a mirror to the powerful: The Israeli 'maestro' of political cartooning
Ranan Lurie, 85, has worked at the world’s top papers, drawn influential caricatures of hundreds of leaders and had military exploits worthy of a superhero
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