Israel Museum Newsletter

October – December
2019

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The Israel Museum and Shrine of the Book Complex are open:

Sun, Mon, Wed, Thurs 10 am – 5 pm Shrine of the Book and Model are open
Tues 4 pm – 9 pm
10 am – 9 pm for groups
Fri and holiday eves 10 am – 2 pm
Sat 10:30 am – 4 pm Sun, Mon, Wed, Thurs 8:30 am – 5 pm

Tues 8:30 am – 9 pm

Fri 8:30 am – 2 pm

Yom Kippur
Tues – Wed 8–9.10 closed

Sukkot 10 am – 2 pm
Sun 13.10 10:30 am – 4 pm
Mon 14.10 10 am – 2 pm
Sun 20.10 10:30 am – 4 pm
Mon 21.10 Free entrance for children* courtesy of the
Tues–Sat 15–19.10 Ernst and Jaqueline Weil Stiftung, Zurich


Hanukkah 10 am – 9 pm
Tues 24.12 Free entrance for children* in memory of
Sun–Tues 22–30.12 Bessie Rose Guberman, Canada


Free entrance for children* every Tues and Sat courtesy of
Canadian Friends of the Israel Museum and David and Inez Myers, Cleveland, Ohio
*Under 18, excluding groups, activities, and special events

Free entrance for soldiers doing compulsory military service and for those
doing National Service, courtesy of Israeli Friends of the Israel Museum

Winter is not quite here, but we invite you to visit the Museum Shop for a look at
our new Cashmere Collection by MUNKH

20% discount at the Bible Lands Museum and the Bloomfield Science Museum for the
week following purchase of a ticket to the Israel Museum. One discount per ticket.

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October – December 2019

5 Exhibitions 22 Family Activities
18 Shrine of the Book Complex 25 Members
19 Rockefeller Museum 26 Israeli Friends
20 Ticho House 27 Guided Tours
21 Gallery Talks

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On the cover:
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Portrait of Two Women, 1831 (detail). Kunstmuseum Bern, Bequest
of Cornelius Gurlitt 2014. From the exhibition Fateful Choices: Art from the Gurlitt Trove

The Museum gratefully acknowledges the Bauhaus: Our Work, Our Play, Our Party
generosity of those who contribute to its Klil Design
exhibitions: Niso Handmade Masterpiece
Mariana Griessman Youth Wing Fund, London
Veiled Women of the Holy Land The Morris Rodman Fund, Washington, DC
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation The J. Weinstein Foundation in memory of 
The Beare Foundation, Durban, South Africa Joe and Celia Weinstein, New York
Donors to the Museum’s Exhibition Fund* Donors to the Museum’s Exhibition Fund*

Julian Rosefeldt: Manifesto Gil Marco Shani: Buses
Donors to the Museum’s Exhibition Fund* Sponsored by
Ostrovsky Family Foundation
Arie Aroch: The Shape of Things
Through Time and Space Osvaldo Romberg
Susan and Marty Goldberg, Toronto Hagit Lalo née Shtriet Memorial Fund
Israeli Space Agency of the Israel Ministry of Nimba
Science and Technology Dina and Michael Weiss, Tel Aviv

The Wanderer iGlyph
The Della and Fred S. Worms OBE The William Davidson Foundation, Detroit
Endowment for European Art
Donors to the Museum’s Exhibition Fund* Cultural Pioneers aboard the Ruslan
The Central Zionist Archives
Fateful Choices: Art from the Gurlitt Trove
Donors to the Museum’s Exhibition Fund* Seeds of the Land
The Ministry of Culture and the Media, Khen Shish
The Federal German Government, Berlin Ticho House Fund
The David Berg Foundation, New York
A Glimpse of Paradise
Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage
Donors to the Museum’s Exhibition Fund*

Peter and Pan
Gilad Efrat
A Modern Love
Lisa Reihana
Donors to the Museum’s Exhibition Fund*

* Donors to the Museum’s Exhibition Fund:
Claudia Davidoff, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
in memory of Ruth and Leon Davidoff
Hanno D. Mott, New York
The Nash Family Foundation, New York

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Exhibitions

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller,
Portrait of Two Women, 1831

Kunstmuseum Bern, Bequest of
Cornelius Gurlitt

Jan Brueghel the Younger, River Landscape, 1630s. Kunstmuseum Bern, Bequest of Cornelius Gurlitt 2014

Fateful Choices

Art from the Gurlitt Trove

Bella and Harry Wexner Some 100 works of art from the intriguing Schwabing
Gallery Trove, a recently discovered collection amassed by Dr.
Hildebrand Gurlitt, who was a museum director, art
For Gallery Talks, dealer, and agent for the Third Reich. Fateful Choices
see p. 21 explores this trove and showcases the diverse works
Gurlitt acquired during the course of his career.
Catalogue Paintings, drawing, and prints by Manet, Monet, Renoir,
Dix, Kokoschka, Grosz, and Beckmann are displayed
Exhibition in collaboration alongside Dutch still-life paintings from the 17th
with the Kunstmuseum century, Rococo pastels from the 18th century, and
Bern and the Kunst- und 19th-century portraits.
Ausstellungshalle der Provenance research on this art trove is ongoing, and
Bundesrepublik Deutschland with it the search for the works’ rightful owners. The
exhibition supports these efforts and provides insight
into the research already completed.

Curator: Shlomit Steinberg

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Playing on a giant replica of a 1923 chess set by Bauhaus teacher Josef Hartwig. Photo: Dror Einav

Weinstein Gallery, BAUHAUS
Ruth Youth Wing for
Art Education Our Work, Our Play, Our Party
For Gallery Talks,
see p. 21 Taking its title from Johannes Itten’s saying “our play,
our party, our work,” this exhibition focuses on the
6 educational aspects of the Bauhaus school, delving
into its avant-garde style and experimental approach,
its vision of a utopian society, and its extraordinary
group of teachers, among them Wassily Kandinsky,
Paul Klee, and László Moholy-Nagy. BAUHAUS: Our
Work, Our Play, Our Party traces the different stages of
a Bauhaus student’s initiation process, starting with the
famed “preliminary courses,” introducing visitors to
the acclaimed teachers that led the school and offering
them new levels of engagement with color, shape,
materiality, and space. In the second stage of the
exhibition, visitors progress from play to unstructured
experimentation to understand the process behind
creating a finished work, becoming active participants
as they engage with a range of Bauhaus objects
spanning different media and presented in an
immersive installation.

Curators: Eli Bruderman and Noga Eliash Zalmanovich

Untitled I (Ape), 2011
Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

‫גלעד אפרת‬ ‫ גוף ציור‬: ‫גלעד אפרת‬ Ayala Zacks Abramov Gilad Efrat
: Pavilion for Israeli Art
Gilad Efrat : Inside Painting Inside Painting
‫גוף ציור‬ For Gallery Talks,
see p. 21 This large-scale solo show by leading contemporary
Israeli painter Gilad Efrat explores the evolution of
Catalogue his unique painting style and approach. Starting with
his earliest works, which focus on local and politically
Gilad Efrat significant archeological sites, the exhibition moves
: to his later depictions of barren deserts, swamps,
and moonscapes, before showcasing his most recent
Inside Painting abstract paintings. Of special focus in the exhibition are
Efrat’s large-scale close-up portraits of apes from the
Houston Zoo, which depict primates that who painted
in the Zoo as a recreational activity. Unable to create
figurative depictions, the apes created abstract works
that were sold by the Zoo. These poignant portraits
mark a significant moment in Efrat’s transition to
abstraction. They address the tension between the
figurative and the abstract, and the cerebral and the
intuitive – major issues in modern and contemporary
art in general, and in painting specifically.

Curator: Amitai Mendelsohn

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museum holding of more than 75,000, A MODERN LOVE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE ISRAEL MUSEUM, JERUSALEM Robert and Rena (Fisch) A Modern Love
resented in A Modern Love: Photographs Lewin Gallery
Museum, Jerusalem belong to a dramatic Remarkable Photographs from the
ost art historians refer to as Modernism. Audio guide Israel Museum
rks were created by Western camera artists
des of the last century, but when we look at For Gallery Talks, A chronological display of photographs created
nd aesthetic decisions and visual interests see p. 21 between 1900 and 1945, highlighting the various facets
with us, steering the way we see the world of modernism. A close examination of these powerful
ng the threshold of the digital age. From the Catalogue images inspires us to ask: What can a century-old
t history, this may challenge the assumption photograph tell me about my own time? The exhibition
m is a period clearly registered as past. But A MODERN displays gifts at the core of the Museum’s holdings,
er perspective as viewers responding to LOVE notably the private collection of the late Noel and
s that today’s omnipresent, virtual reception Harriette Levine, which includes some of the most
of images has more in common with the renowned works by American and European camera
we often think. Rather than pursuing a artists. Also displayed are rare photographs by female
ment, this book offers ways of looking at avant-garde artists active in interwar Europe, gifted by
we are still ready to give ourselves up to Gary B. Sokol as a key addition to our collection.
ges, we join the ranks of photography’s
ffirming the enduring genius of its avant- Curator: Noam Gal
ners.

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Alfred Stieglitz, Portrait of
Marie Rapp, 1916
Gift of Noel and Harriette
Levine, New York,
to American Friends of the
Israel Museum

Della and Fred S. Worms The Wanderer
OBE Gallery
Audio guide The figure of the wanderer, roaming land and sea, was
widespread in European art from the Middle Ages
8 on, captivating artists, poets, and composers. The
exhibition features oil paintings by Hubert Robert, Jean-
Léon Gérôme, and Benjamin West; works on paper by
Rembrandt, Gustave Doré, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Abel
Pann, and Michael Sgan-Cohen; and photographs by
Tim Gidal.

Curator: Shlomit Steinberg

Spertus and Focus Veiled Women of the Holy Land
Galleries
Audio guide New Trends in Modest Dress
For Gallery Talks,
see p. 21 In the past two decades it has become increasingly
Catalogue in Hebrew; common to see Jewish and Muslim women alike covering
English forthcoming their entire body with several layers of shawls, wraps, and
veils in adherence to strict laws of religion and modesty.
‫מבט מצועף‬ From a distance it is difficult to tell them apart, and some
also recall Greek and Russian Orthodox nuns. To gain
‫גילויים על כיסויים בלבוש המקומי‬ insight into the rationales behind this trend, women
from the different religious groups were interviewed, yet
the topic remains fraught with contradictions: do the
multiple layers covering the woman’s body protect her or
do they reflect centuries of oppression? The exhibition
presents the attire of each group, photographs and
texts, and a video work by art director and consultant Ari
Teperberg offering a glimpse into the women’s private
world. Together, they invite viewers to grapple with these
questions – and answer them in their own personal way.

Curator: No’am Bar’am-Ben Yossef

Kay Merrill Hillman Flowing Forms II
Gallery
Selected Works by Jean Arp

A glimpse into the later prints, sculpture, drawing, and
reliefs of the Dada and Surrealist artist Jean (Hans)
Arp (1886–1966). His works’ typically rounded shapes
captivate the viewer, evoking the human body and
vegetative motifs.

Curator: Nirit Sharon Debel

Untitled, 1965. The Arthur and Madeleine Chalette Lejwa Collection,
bequeathed by Madeleine Chalette Lejwa, New York, to American
Friends of the Israel Museum

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Until 2.11 Julian Rosefeldt
Manifesto
Nathan Cummings

Building for Modern and A tour-de-force multi-screen film installation, Manifesto

Contemporary Art draws on manifestos – declarations of belief usually

combined with a call for action. Artist Julian Rosefeldt

Audio guide revisited dozens of 20th-century manifestos to create

thirteen new monologues performed by sole actor Cate

Booklet Blanchett as different characters in diverse settings.

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‫ ט‬MANIFESTO has been co-commissioned by the ACMI – Australian Centre for

‫ ו‬the Moving Image Melbourne, the Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, the

Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Sprengel Museum Hannover.

The work is co-produced by the Burger Collection Hong Kong and the Ruhrtriennale.

It was realized thanks to the generous support of the Medienboard Berlin-

Brandenburg and in cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk.

The exhibition is in cooperation

with the Nationalgalerie in the Curator: Mira Lapidot

Hamburger Bahnof – Museum

für Gegenwart

Until 2.11 The Manifestos

Nathan Cummings Manifestos are the ideological proclamations of
Building for Modern and individuals, political bodies, or cultural movements. This
Contemporary Art display presents the original manifestos of some of the
most important 20th-century avant-garde movements,
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Part of a unique library assembled by the scholar
and collector Arturo Schwarz – who was personally
connected to major Dada and Surrealist figures – they
were later gifted to the Israel Museum.

Curator: Adina Kamien-Kazhdan

Until 2.11 Gil Marco Shani

Jackie and Irving Blum Buses
Gallery
Audio guide Acclaimed Israeli artist Gil Marco Shani creates an
Catalogue unexpected and disorientating space inside the
Museum: a parking lot built between two gallery
levels, complete with two tourist buses. The buses
appear whole, though they are in fact only partial
constructions, adapted to the angle of vision. Shani
ingeniously fabricated the buses along with the space’s
many realistic details using a variety of materials
and techniques; effects of sound and temperature
complement the optical illusion and enhance the
viewer’s experience. The installation’s incongruity and
uncanny artificiality produce a feeling of suspense and
mystery. Finding themselves suddenly in a parking lot
located between Museum galleries, the visitors are
drawn into an obscure and anonymous place in which
anything might happen.

Curator: Aya Miron

Until 9.11 Arie Aroch

Hagit Gallery The Shape of Things
Leaflet
An intimate exhibition displaying paintings and
Arie Aroch drawings – among them several key works – by the
significant and influential artist Arie Aroch (1908–
The Shape of Things 1974). His singular and diverse oeuvre blends Lyrical
Abstraction and American Pop Art with autobiographical
36 associations, literary allusions, and Jewish references.
Aroch employed an artistic language comprised of
childlike scribblings, daily objects, and forms that are not
abstract in the traditional sense but rather depict things
that cannot be expressed in words. These elements
influenced a generation of artists in the 1960s and
1970s, including Raffi Lavie, Aviva Uri, and Tsibi Geva,
and tributes to Aroch by some of these artists are also on
display here. Yona Fischer, co-curator of this exhibition
and the Israel Museum’s first curator of Israeli Art, was a
close friend of the artist.

Curators: Yona Fischer and Amitai Mendelsohn

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From the recovered diary of Ilan Ramon

Until 9.11 Through Time and Space

Davidson Temporary The Diary of Astronaut Ilan Ramon and a
Exhibition Gallery, Scroll from the Dead Sea
Samuel and Saidye
Bronfman Archaeology Two manuscripts that survived through time and space
Wing against all odds are displayed here: The diary of the
Audio guide first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, found in a Texas field
For Gallery Talk, see p. 21 after the 2003 explosion of the Columbia shuttle, and
Catalogue + Facsimile of sections of the Book of Enoch (long believed to date
Ilan Ramon’s Diary from the Christian era), discovered among the Dead
Sea Scrolls some seventy years ago. Shown together,
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from their appearance to the circumstances of their
survival. Both the ancient Enoch and Ilan Ramon can
be called "first space explorers," and their personal

writings describe their journey through the cosmos.
A miniature Torah scroll displayed alongside the
recovered pages – the twin of a scroll taken by Ilan
Ramon into space – completes the exhibition’s

moving narrative.

Curators: Adolfo Roitman, Hagit Maoz,
Michael Maggen

Peter Pan playing a panpipe,
surrounded by dancing fairies,

from Peter Pan in Kensington
Gardens by J. M. Barrie, illustrated

by Arthur Rackham, 1906
Youth Wing Collection

Until 12.12 Peter and Pan
From Ancient Greece to Neverland

Bella and Harry Wexner In 1902, the ancient Greek god Pan – an unruly, pastoral
Gallery god representing nature – reappeared as Peter Pan in a
novel by Scottish author James Barrie. Britain was then
Audio guide at the height of a process of industrialization that caused
ecological havoc as well as social and cultural upheaval.
Audio guide and gallery When much of the population lived in alienating cities,
texts for children it is not surprising that the ancient nature god and the
eternal boy he inspired were enthusiastically embraced.
For Gallery Talks, The exhibition traces the metamorphosis of Pan into
see p. 21 Peter Pan through archaeological finds as well as early
editions of Peter Pan and original book illustrations.
Catalogue These are accompanied by films, books on fairies,
botanical illustrations, landscapes, and original sketches
by the animators of Walt Disney Productions. The objects
on display are from the Museum’s collection, other local
institutions and private collectors, and the Louvre, Paris,
the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, and the
Walt Disney Family Museum, San Francisco.

Curator: Rachel Caine Kreinin
Assistant curator: Morag Wilhelm

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Still from in Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015–17. Courtesy of the artist and Artprojects,
New Zealand at Venice, Creative New Zealand, New Zealand at Venice Patrons

Until 14.12 Lisa Reihana

Design Pavilion in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
For Gallery Talks,
see p. 21 New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana’s renowned work
Leaflet in Pursuit of Venus [infected] commemorates the
250th anniversary of the voyages of Captain Cook, his
encounters with native populations, and the impact of
their interactions on the history of the Pacific islands.
This panoramic digital work premiered at the Venice
Biennale in 2017 and weaves together a mixture of
film and animation populated with real and invented
encounters with indigenous people to re-imagine the
iconic wallpaper Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique,
representing European exploration during the 18th
century. It is displayed alongside objects from the
Museum’s rich holdings of non-Western art that are
similar to those collected by Cook, including exquisitely
carved Maori ceremonial artifacts and Alexander
Shaw’s 1787 catalogue of tapa specimens collected on
Cook’s voyages. The juxtaposition of historical objects
and a contemporary work allows audiences to connect
to the past and reimagine it.

Curator: Dorit Shafir

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St. Matthew and the Angel, 1976. Purchase, Recanati Fund for the Acquisition of Israeli Art

From 26.11 Osvaldo Romberg

Hagit Gallery Osvaldo Romberg taught at Jerusalem’s Bezalel
Academy in the 1970s, chairing its Fine Arts
department, creating a body of work, and leaving
his imprint on the development of Conceptual art in
Israel. Romberg strives to reach the fundamentals
of the artistic act by breaking it down into essential
components, i.e., forms and colors. His intellectual
engagement is accompanied by a strong emotional
and even religious dimension. Romberg’s spirit, buoyed
by imagination and creative energy, hovers over
the scientific investigations, architectural sketches,
and theoretical texts that are incorporated into his
artworks.

Curator: Amitai Mendelsohn

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From 3.12 Nimba

Faith-dorian and Baga Art and the Great Mother
Martin Wright Gallery
of African Art Appreciated for their sophisticated beauty, sculptures
created by the Baga were collected and displayed in
Nimba shoulder mask, Baga Europe, where they inspired such artists as Matisse and
people, Guinea Conakry, ca. Picasso. This people has lived on the West African Guinea
1880. Collection of Michael coast since the 14th century, subject to attacks, French
and Dina Weiss, Tel Aviv colonial rule, and after 1958 domination by a Muslim
Marxist regime that banned their religion and destroyed
their ritual art. Though most of the Baga converted to
Islam, many preserved their animist practices. Since
1984, under a less hostile regime, their art has become
recognized as folklore. Collector Michael Weiss spent a
decade seeking out traditional Baga art; the exhibition
tells the story of his search, of the people he encountered,
and of Baga culture. Supplemented by objects in the
Museum’s holdings, the exhibition presents loans from
the Weiss collection, including examples of the famous
Nimba mask representing the Great Mother.

Curator: Dorit Shafir

From 16.12 iGlyph
Hieroglyphs from the Pyramids to Cyberspace

Davidson Temporary The hieroglyphic script that developed in Egypt some
Exhibition Gallery, 5,000 years ago comprised hundreds of pictures. Over
Samuel and Saidye time, the pictures were replaced by a writing system
Bronfman Archaeology consisting of approximately twenty signs: the alphabetic
Wing script that reigns in Western culture to this day. Picture-
Audio guide writing appeared to have been abandoned forever,
Catalogue but in the digital 21st century, the picture – namely,
the emoji – has returned in full force. This exhibition
Decorative plaque, 3rd–2nd presents the metamorphosis of picture-writing from
century BCE. Gift of Abraham antiquity to modern times through a wealth of finds
Guterman, New York from ancient Egypt, displayed against the background
of contemporary emoji use. Films and multimedia
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Pyramids, pictures can provide a complex, sophisticated
system of visual communication. The objects on view
from the Israel Museum collection, many on display for
the first time, are complemented by loans from a private
collection in London.

Curator: Shirly Ben-Dor Evian

From 19.12 Cultural Pioneers aboard
the Ruslan
Israeli Art Collection
Galleries An exhibition marking the 100th anniversary
of the Central Zionist Archives
The Ruslan anchored in Istanbul,
en route from Odessa to In December 1919, following a stormy passage from
Palestine, 1919. Courtesy of the Odessa, the SS Ruslan landed at the port of Jaffa. This
Jabotinsky Institute in Israel ship is often called the Mayflower of the Land of Israel,
since its 600 passengers included many figures who
would enter the Zionist pantheon: intellectuals and
ideologues, artists and poets, leaders and activists. One
hundred years after its arrival, and on the occasion of
the centenary of the Central Zionist Archives, the story
of the Ruslan – and the subsequent achievements of
its notable passengers – presented through artworks,
archival film excerpts, photographs, manuscripts, and
historical documents, allowing visitors to enter the world
of some of the people whose influence on Israeli culture
and society is felt to this day.

Curator: Talia Amar

Special Display

Masks

Bringing Myths to Life

Arnold Maremont For some 3,200 years, masks have played a central
Gallery of Precolumbian role in the various cultures of the Americas. Even
Art after the European conquests and the imposition of
Christianity, they continued to be used, and to this day,
Mask for “Dance of the Devils” the people of Mexico create wooden masks that hint at
Mexico, 1960. Gift of Dorit Ezov, pre-Christian myths but are worn in church contexts:
Mevasseret Zion special dances, processions, and pilgrimages. In the
Precolumbian period, masks served many purposes
in daily life, as adornment, protection, ritual objects,
and signs of status. In the colonial era, a process of
syncretism began: beliefs, symbols, and customs from
the old and new religions melded together. The masks
on display – dating from 1200 BCE to 2010 CE – reflect
ancient rituals, recent folk practice, and 500 years of
cultural fusion.

Curator: Yvonne Fleitman

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Shrine of the Book

Audio guide Model of Jerusalem in the
Second Temple Period

A recreation of Jerusalem as it appeared in 66 CE at the
height of its glory, a few years before its destruction.

Dorot Auditorium Film Screenings
No extra charge
For screening times, see A Human Sanctuary
the Museum’s website Rebirth

Every hour, beginning at Time Travel: The Story of the Dead Sea Scrolls –
10:30 am Animated children’s film. Alma sets on a wonderful
English subtitles journey through time to discover the incredible story of
the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Rockefeller
Archaeological Museum

27 Sultan Suleiman St.
Tel. 628-2251
[email protected]

Sun, Mon, Wed, Thurs Marie Balian, Palm
10 am – 3 pm Tree in a Garden,
Sat 10 am – 2 pm 2000. Painted tiled
Closed Tues, Fri, panel. Collection of
Holiday Eves Neshan Balian and
family, Jerusalem
Parking available on
Saturdays only
Buses 1, 3, 51

A Glimpse of Paradise

100 Years of Jerusalem Armenian Ceramics

‫פיתוח מזרח ירושלים בע“מ‬ The vibrant Armenian ceramics found throughout
East Jerusalem Development Ltd Jerusalem’s built landscape represent a unique
style: a school of pottery born only a century ago and
‫צבי‬-‫יד יצחק בן‬ appreciated by the Holy City’s diverse populations. A
wide-ranging display tells the story of this art, from its
Exhibition in cooperation roots in the Dome of the Rock’s 16th-century cladding
with Yad Yizhak Ben-Zvi, and the 18th-century tiles in the Armenian St. James
Ministry of Jerusalem and Cathedral, through the school’s emergence and
Heritage, and East Jerusalem flourishing during the British Mandate, to the present
Development Ltd. day. The notable oeuvre of the founding generations of
Jerusalem Armenian ceramicists – David Ohannessian,
the Karkashians, and the Balians – is supplemented by
the work of present-day artists, as well as by a special
project by students in the Bezalel Academy’s ceramic
screenprinting workshop. The exhibition’s setting in
Mandate-Period Rockefeller Museum, itself adorned
with Armenian ceramics, only enhances our glimpses of
the paradise they evoke.

Curator: Fawzi Ibrahim 19
Co-curator: Nirit Shalev-Khalifa

Ticho House

10 HaRav Agan Street Until 1.11
Tel. 645-3746
[email protected] Seeds of the Land

Sun – Thurs This exhibition examines traditional scientific
12 noon – 8 pm botanical drawings and their evolution in the works of
Fri and Holiday Eves contemporary Israeli artists, who engage with their
10 am – 2 pm predecessors and present their personal perspectives
Closed on Saturdays on the subject matter – at times political and critical,
Free entry at times allegorical, and at times steeped in a yearning
for nature that is mingled with fear for its fate and for
Anna Italian Café our own.
Tel. 543-4144
[email protected] Guest curator: Tamar Manor-Friedman

Hebrew catalogue A joint project with Da’at HaMakom: Center for the
Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World

Khen Shish, Shem Tov

(Good Name), 2018.
Collection of the artist

From 23.11 Khen Shish

Gallery Talk In her new body of work, Khen Shesh investigates the
with the curator relationship between randomness and intention, as she
Wed 27.11, 18.12 | 7 pm creates through a process that recalls the Rorschach
test used in psychology. Shesh pours paint or ink on a
In the framework of page, which she then folds in half to produce a mirror
Traces VII – Action Line image. Taking the result as her starting point, she
The Seventh Biennale of completes the work, whether by adding gold leaf or
Drawing in Israel actual myrtle leaves, or by using photographic and print
techniques.
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Curator: Timna Seligman

Gallery Talks

Gallery Talks are in Hebrew unless otherwise indicated

No extra charge
Meet at the Upper Information Desk; "walking stools" available in the cloakroom

For Gallery Talks at Ticho House, see p. 20

Tues 7 pm
29.10 Gilad Efrat: Inside Painting with curator Amitai Mendelsohn
5.11 Veiled Women of the Holy Land with curator Noam Bar’am-Ben
Yossef, with filmmakers Ari Teperberg and Yoav Brill, and with
photographers featured in the catalogue
12.11 A Modern Love (Photography and History) with curator Noam Gal*
19.11 Gilad Efrat: Inside Painting with curator Amitai Mendelsohn
26.11 Lisa Reihana: in Pursuit of Venus [infected] with curator Dorit Shafir
3.12 Fateful Choices: Art from the Gurlitt Trove with curator Shlomit
Steinberg*
10.12 A Modern Love (Photography and Nature) with curator Noam Gal*
17.12 Veiled Women of the Holy Land with curator No’am Bar’am-Ben
Yossef and with Prof. Tova Hartman, Ono Academic College

Wed 12 noon Peter and Pan with curator Rachel Caine Kreinin*
23.10 Through Time and Space with co-curators Adolfo Roitman and
30.10 Michael Maggen*
Veiled Women of the Holy Land with curator No’am Bar’am-Ben
6.11
Yossef and with Prof. Rachel Elior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
13.11
20.11 Gilad Efrat: Inside Painting with curator Amitai Mendelsohn

27.11 A Modern Love (Photography and the Portrait) with curator
Noam Gal*
4.12 Bauhaus: Our Work, Our Play, Our Party with co-curator
11.12
18.12 | English Eli Bruderman and Noga Eliash-Zalmonovich
Peter and Pan with curator Rachel Caine Kreinin*
Lisa Reihana: in Pursuit of Venus [infected] with curator Dorit Shafir

Fateful Choices: Art from the Gurlitt Trove with curator Shlomit
Steinberg*

* Register in advance on the Museum website

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Family Activities

Details on the Museum website Sukkot

Street performances and gallery tours

Tues 15.10 The 34th Annual Kite-Flying Festival

10 am – 6 pm | NIS 35–40 Kite-building workshop
From 4 pm | No extra charge Kite-flying in the Art Garden (weather permitting)

Wed–Thurs | 16–17.10 Recycling Workshop

10 am – 3 pm Weave fabrics to decorate your sukkah, inspired by the
Ages 3–9 | NIS 15 | Tel. 670-8963 exhibition BAUHAUS: our work, our play, our party

Wed – Thurs 16–17.10 Illustration Library

12 noon | NIS 15 Story Time

Sukkot-themed story and puppet theater with Mia Sahar

Details on the Museum website Hanukkah

22–26.12, 29–30.12 Special Performance and Workshops

10 am – 3 pm Recycling Workshop

Wed, Thurs, Sun, Mon Create silver Hanukkah lamps inspired by the exhibition
BAUHAUS: our work, our play, our party
25, 26, 29, 30.12 | 12 noon
Illustration Library
NIS 15
Story Time
The Bird of Light: Hanukkah-themed story and shadow
theater with Limor Wexelblatt

Tues | 4–7 pm | Ages 3–9 Recycling Workshop
NIS 15 | Tel. 670-8963
Back to School

Unleash your creative potential through textures,
shapes, and colors, inspired by the BAUHAUS exhibition

17.10, 23.12 The Museum – Especially for You!

5–7 pm | NIS 20 per family Families of children with special needs are invited to a
Register at tel. 677-1379 or at
special quiet visit of the Youth Wing exhibition
[email protected]

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Please see the Museum website Illustration Library
for new opening hours
All programs in the Library are sponsored by an

anonymous donor.

Exhibition

Paul Kor: Kaspion and Other Animals

A special exhibition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of
Caspion, Kor’s beloved little silver fish, who propelled him
to international renown as an author and illustrator. Kor’s
original illustrations to the three Kaspion books, most of
which are displayed to the public for the first time, will be
shown alongside original illustrations of other popular
animal figures from Kor’s books and his paper cuttings for
The Magic Zoo.

7, 28.10 Big Art for Little Artists
4, 11, 18, 25.11
A journey beginning with a story, continuing with artworks,
2, 9, 16.12 and ending with an art activity, led by artist Michal Kerer
Ages 4–6
4:30 pm Ages 7–9
5:45 pm
Mon | NIS 30, NIS 25 for Family Tuesdays in the Library
Membership holders | NIS 160 for
6 meetings | NIS 140 for Family Story Time in English
Membership holders
Books on a different theme every month:
Tues | 5 pm | No extra charge October: My Favorite Story…
For details of program, see November: Awesome Autumn
December: Light up! Stories for Hanukkah
Hebrew side or Museum website Story and crafting with Yael Katz
Story and play time with Shelly Wollf
Thurs | 5 pm | No extra charge Story and yoga with Lucy Shvamental
Ages 4–7 Story with Jodi Davidovich

3.10, 28.11 ,12.12
31.10, 14.11, 5, 26.12

10, 21.10, 19.12
7.11

During Museum hours Interactive Archaeological Dig

Photographs and information displayed along a 20-meter-
long wall detail the stages of an archaeological dig and
the evolution of archaeology in Israel. An activity booklet
accompanies the visitors at the path’s five stations.

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bac.org.il The Israel Museum hosts
Beit Avi Chai
Fri | 11 am – 12 noon
No extra charge Weekly Torah Portion
New perspectives on the week’s Torah reading with
29.11 Prof. Avigdor Shinan and Museum curators
Modern Art Galleries Toledot
On watching through a window with curator Ella Regev
6.12 VaYetzeh
In the exhibition Veiled Women On covering and revealing in the story of Jacob, Leah, and
Rachel, with curator No’am Bar’am Ben-Yossef
of the Holy Land VaYishlakh War, struggle, and rape in the story of Jacob,
13.12 with curator Ronit Sorek
VaYeshev On male beauty, Joseph, and the coat of many
Patrons Lounge colors with Prof. Rabbi Dalia Marx and curator Galit Bennet-
20.12 Dahan
Mikketz
Hellenistic period gallery, On elegant clothing, opulence, and feasts with assistant
Archaeology Wing curator Shua Ben-Ari
27.12

Berg English Period Room

Register now! Fridays in the Museum

Courses start on 1.11 Once a month, on Friday morning, courses with leading
lecturers on a range of topics from the world of culture:
Details at tel. 677-1373, contemporary and modern art; classical and world
670-8823 | Full course list music; Japanese art and culture; documentary cinema;
available on the Museum’s guided tours in the Museum and at other locations;
archaeology; Christianity; Greek mythology; drawing;
website painting; photography; illustration; and more.

Details at tel. 670-8860 Training Courses for Educators
(Lihi Sapir) and on the Museum’s
A range of programs for the enhancement of
website | Fee includes yearlong professional development, creative thinking,
Museum membership enrichment. Groups can be created according to the
specific needs and goals of the participants.

Register at tel. 677-1303, Art Classes for Children, Youth,
670-8961 | Full course list on the and Adults
Museum’s website | Fee includes
Year-long courses for art-lovers who wish to learn
yearlong Museum membership from the Museum’s teacher-artists. Drawing, painting,
sculpture, digital photography, pottery, digital drawing,
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Members

Membership renewal and additional information at tel.
670-8855, at [email protected], or at the Members’
Desk at the Museum entrance on Sun–Thurs

Give a friend a membership – a gift that keeps on
giving!

Activities in Hebrew unless Dear Members, we are currently planning special discounts
otherwise indicated and benefits for you to enjoy over the coming months; full
details will be sent to your email. If you have not yet updated
your email address with us, please do so at [email protected]

Wed 2.10 | 7 pm | NIS 50 Selihot Tour
A spiritual nighttime tour from Yemin Moshe, through Mount
Tour lasts approx. 5 hours Zion and the Jewish quarter to reach the Western Wall. Tour led
Details and registration at tel. by Roni Peled

670-8855 | Space is limited

Tues 19.11 | 12 noon | Free of Guided Tour of A Glimpse of Paradise: 100 Years of
Jerusalem Armenian Ceramics
charge | Transportation from With exhibition curator Fawzi Ibrahim, Curator of Rockefeller
the Museum NIS 20 Archaeological Museum

Details and registration at tel.
670-8855 | Space is limited

Fri 13.12 | 12:30 pm | Free of Neighboring Sounds
Concert series featuring musicians from the Conservatory of
charge | Details will be sent by the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
email closer to the event

Full details will be sent directly Lectures and Pre-Openings
by email Members are invited to special lectures and to viewings of
the Museum’s new exhibitions before they open to the public,
including curator-led tours.

Special Benefits for Members:
Discounts on tickets for Museum events
Shops, cafés, and restaurants: 10% discount
Entrance for friends who join you on a visit
to the Museum: 10% discount on full-price tickets
Free entry to Haifa Museums: Haifa Museum of Art,
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, National Maritime
Museum, and Haifa City Museum

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Israeli Friends

Association of Israeli Friends of the Israel Museum

Tel. 677-1344, 670-8815, [email protected]

The Association sees as its mission to The “Here & Now” Contemporary Israeli
strengthen the Museum’s relationship Art Acquisitions Committee
with the local community of art, Join the committee and enjoy the rare
archaeology, and Jewish art patrons. opportunity to participate in the purchase
It aims to raise funds for the Museum, of contemporary Israeli art for the
engage its members with the Museum’s Museum’s collections. In the past nine
rich and varied program, and reach out years only, the committee has acquired
to the public at large. some 135 important works by leading
Israeli artists, displayed in the Museum’s
Among the many activities that galleries. One of the high points of the
members enjoy are exclusive previews committee’s yearly activity is a special
of new exhibitions, encounters with trip to a central art event abroad –
Israeli artists, invitations to exhibition including, in recent years, Lisbon, China,
openings, visits to private collections in Miami, Japan, Moscow, the Manifesta in
Israel and around the world, and more. St. Petersburg, the Biennale in Venice,
Tours abroad have included New York, and Documenta in Greece.
Los Angeles, Chicago, Milan, Rome,
Miami and China. Please note that all expenses are
recognized as a tax-deductible donation.
The yearly activities culminate in a
special Gala evening whose proceeds An Original Gift Idea
subsidize a free entrance to the A personalized certificate acknowledging
Museum and guided tours for soldiers your donation towards educational and
doing compulsory military service and youth activities at the Museum (for a
for those doing National Service. contribution of IS 180 or more) will be
issued by the office of Israeli Friends of
Members may choose one of the the Israel Museum: 670-8815, 677-1344;
following membership options: Friend, [email protected]
Israeli Patron, International Patron, and
Guardian. The Israeli Friends provide free entry for
soldiers doing compulsory military service
Please note that 80% of the and for those doing National Service.
membership fees are recognized as a
tax-deductible donation.

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Guided Tours

Free of charge | Schedule subject to change
Tours are in English and last approximately one hour
Meet at the Upper Information Desk
Number of participants is limited

Sun, Mon, Wed, Thurs 11 am Archaeology

Mon, Wed 12:30 pm Jewish Art and Life

Mon, Wed 2 pm Art in the Galleries

Sun, Thurs 1 pm New in the Galleries

Sun, Thurs 2 pm Synagogue Route

Sun, Mon, Wed, Thurs 3 pm Shrine of the Book and Model

Fri 11 am; Sat 11:30 am Highlights

Tues 5 pm Creative Paths

Mon. Thurs 11 am French-language highlights tour
Thurs 11 am Spanish-language highlights tour
Thurs 11 am Russian-language highlights tour

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please
visit the
museum
website
for detailed
information
about
classes
and cultural
events

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