Posts Tagged ‘Израиль’
Palestinian Graffiti #11: Banksy in Gaza
Posted in Banksy in Palestine, Israel & Palestine Graffiti, tagged Art, Art de Rue, Art Moderne, Arte, Arte Moderno, バンクシー, モダンアート, Banksy, Banksy Art, Banksy Cat, Banksy Gaza, Banksy Graffiti, Banksy Israel, Banksy Palestine, Cat, Children, 现代艺术, 班克斯, 约旦河西岸, Duvar yazısı, Бэнкси, Граффити, Израиль, Палестина, Современное искусство, Enfants, 落書き, Filistin, Gaza, Gaza Cat, Gaza Strip, Graffiti, Grafiti, If we wash our hands, Israel, Israeli Graffiti, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Modern Art, Modern Culture, Paix, Palestina, Palestine, Peace, Sanat, Street Art, Street Culture, Street Graffiti, فلسطين, لاجئين, War and Peace, West Bank, 巴勒斯坦, İsrail, 涂鸦, 以色列, בנקסי גרפיטי, גרפיטי, הגדה המערבית, ישראל, עזה, פליטים, פלסטין, إسرائيل, الكتابة على الجدران, الضفة الغربية, بانكسي, جرافيتي, غرفتي, غزة on May 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Tel Aviv Museum of Art I: Lena Liv
Posted in Favourite Art, tagged Art, Art Gallery, Art Museum, Collage, Израиль, Искусство, Лена Лив, Метро, Москва, Московское метро, Тель Авив, Israel, Lena Liv, Manet, Metro, Middle East, Modern Art, Moscow, Moscow Metro, Museum, Photography, Picasso, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art on September 2, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has quite a good collection. I cannot say I was stunned by it though. No. Most art museums of any big European city have better collections. In fact, one would expect much more from the primary art hub of Israel. Couldn’t the diaspora contribute more to the museum? Couldn’t the State of Israel, far from being the poorest country in the world, buy more?
The museum does have Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix and a lot of Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso. But what it has of those great artists is mediocre and probably constitute the sorry remains, unwanted by the world’s great museums and shrewd private collectors. The quality of Manet’s piece is particularly horrifying (was the artist drunk at the moment of creating it? unconscious? dead?).
I understand though how difficult it must be to build up a good collection by a museum of a town, which is 100 years old, in a country, which is 60 years old. This museum is in no position to compete with art galleries of Europe or the States. What it does now is focusing on modern art, collaborating with Western museums, and promoting talented Israeli artists. This is a good strategy.
The exhibition, which I liked very much, is a photography exhibition by Lena Liv, a native of St Petersburg, entitled ‘Cathedrals for the Masses’. She took pictures of Moscow’s metro stations. Liv’s pictures are amazing. I am afraid that only one collage is available online. I am putting it into the post. Imagine that she had more than a dozen of such collages, all taken using different photography techniques and featuring Muscovites of various social classes and in the most bizarre poses.
Palestinian Graffiti #10: Dheisheh Refugee Camp
Posted in Israel & Palestine Graffiti, Levantine Diary, Travel, tagged 1948, Arabs, Bethlehem, 约旦河西岸, Dheisheh, Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Dome of the Rock, Dove of Peace, Duvar yazısı, Беженцы, Граффити, Дхейше, Израиль, Накба, Палестина, Filistin, Free Palestine, Freedom, Graffiti, Grafiti, History, Israel, Israeli Graffiti, Jews, Martyr, Middle Eastern History, Nakba, Palestina, Palestine, Palestinians, Politics, Refugee Camp, Stop the Wall, Travel, UNRWA, فلسطين, لاجئين, West Bank, 巴勒斯坦, İsrail, 涂鸦, 以色列, גרפיטי, הגדה המערבית, ישראל, פליטים, פלסטין, إسرائيل, الضفة الغربية, غرفتي on August 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the Dheisheh Refugee camp is the 6th biggest in the West Bank with about 13,000 inhabitants. The camp was created outside of Bethlehem in 1949 to accommodate 3,400 Palestinians from 45 villages west of Jerusalem and Hebron who fled during the 1948 War.
Like another refugee camp I once visited in Tyre, Lebanon, the Dheisheh camp is very neat and tidy. Yet its streets are narrow. Accommodation is compact and tight. Apparently, 15% of houses are not connected to the central sewage.
Graffiti is everywhere in the camp. Probably, it is the highest graffiti density that I have ever seen on my travels in the Middle East thus far.
All pictures in this post are mine. Therefore, I apologise for the quality.
Israeli Graffiti #9: Lego Policemen
Posted in Israel & Palestine Graffiti, tagged Art, Culture, 约旦河西岸, Duvar yazısı, Ближний Восток, Граффити, Израиль, Лего, Палестина, Полицейские, Современное искусство, Filistin, Graffiti, Grafiti, Israel, Israeli Graffiti, Lego, Middle East, Palestina, Police, Street Art, Street Culture, Tel Aviv, Travel, فلسطين, لاجئين, 巴勒斯坦, İsrail, 涂鸦, 以色列, גרפיטי, הגדה המערבית, ישראל, פליטים, פלסטין, إسرائيل, الضفة الغربية, غرفتي on August 23, 2010| Leave a Comment »
These amusing graffiti of the ‘Lego policemen’ appear in various places in Tel Aviv. I see those guys every time I head to the beach.
Israeli Graffiti #8: Arab Neighbourhoods
Posted in Israel & Palestine Graffiti, Levantine Diary, Travel, tagged Aragorn, Art, Christianity, 约旦河西岸, Duvar yazısı, Граффити, Израиль, Палестина, Filistin, Graffiti, Grafiti, Israel, Israeli Graffiti, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Middle East, Nablus, Old Jerusalem, Palestina, Palestine, Ramallah, Street Art, Street Culture, فلسطين, لاجئين, West Bank, 巴勒斯坦, İsrail, 涂鸦, 以色列, גרפיטי, הגדה המערבית, ישראל, פליטים, פלסטין, إسرائيل, الضفة الغربية, غرفتي on August 23, 2010| Leave a Comment »