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Haaretz, September 28, 2011
The man behind the icons, By Yuval Saar
“As seen in his new eponymous book, the work of veteran artist and graphic designer David Tartakover embodies the events, personae and values that constitute contemporary Israeliness….Tartakover began studying graphic design at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem….For his part, Adi Stern, the current head of the visual communications department at Bezalel, does not know why there isn’t “another Tartakover” in Israel….’At Bezalel we are trying to educate young designers …. to be more aware of their environment, and of the power and responsibility inherent in visual communications. Designers who will voice their opinion and present an ethical stance concerning everything around us, especially in the Israeli social and political context, by means of the tools of visual communications. As someone who grew up around Tarta [Stern studied under him], for me, it’s totally clear that he is the role model for this.’”
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Haaretz, September 28, 2011
Taking a Stand, By Ellie Armon Azoulay
“Photographer Miki Kratsman has been one of the leading chroniclers of Palestinian life in the territories. Increasing acclaim and recognition for his work won’t lessen his focus on injustice….Kratsman, who heads the photography department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, was informed on July 31 that he was being awarded the Emet Prize in the category of culture and art…”
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The Jerusalem Post, September 27, 2011
Art strikes back in Herzliya, By Barry Davis
“The Herzliya Biennial includes an eclectic and eccentric array of art, theater and dance productions.…The local roster includes a topnotch lineup featuring the likes of provocative artist Avner Ben-Gal, multidisciplinary artist Gili Avissar, Bezalel teacher and author Zvi Goldstein and post-modern creator Yaakov Mishori.”
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Haaretz, September 26, 2011
Soundbox / Championing the home team, By Noam Ben-Zeev
“Composer Michael Wolpe is confounded by the absence of Israeli composers on the programs performed abroad by local orchestras. The artistic director of the Israeli Music Celebration speaks out on the eve of his departure….There are new groups such as the Fragment Ensemble, a woodwind quintet, and multimedia collaborations like the Revolution Orchestra’s Animation Project, combining music by music-school alumni with animated films by graduates of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.”
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The Forward, September 26, 2011
Elinor Carucci on Motherhood and Photos, By Akin Ajayi
“In “Born,” a solo exhibition showing at the Sasha Wolf Gallery in New York through November 5, photographer Elinor Carucci presents intimate, at times unsettling, but always unflinchingly candid portraits of herself and her twin children. Born in Israel in 1971, Carucci started taking photographs at the age of 15. She moved to New York after graduating from Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and has since forged overlapping careers in visual art and commercial photography.”
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Haaretz, September 25, 2011
Israeli artist wins top U.K. design award, By Yuval Saar
“The fifth annual London Design Medal has been awarded to the Israeli-born designer and architect Ron Arad….Arad was born in Tel Aviv in 1951. After studying at Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Art and Design from 1971-1973, he continued his architecture studies in London, where he settled.”
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The Jerusalem Post, September 20, 2011
Imagination in the spotlight, By Rebecca Baskin
“If you could imagine another world, what would it look like? An upcoming exhibit at the Bezalel/Yaffo 23 gallery is planning on asking just that. The exhibit, called “Another World is Possible,” will feature 10 experimental films that hope to make viewers start imagining. The Bezalel/Yaffo 23 gallery is located on the third floor of the Post Office building in central Jerusalem, in what once was the city’s switchboard. The gallery opened a year ago and since then has been providing what director and chief curator Roy Brand describes as “a platform for artists to experiment.”….Unlike a traditional museum or gallery, Bezalel/Yaffo 23 has no standing collection, and none of the works are for sale. According to Brand, this sets the gallery apart and gives it much more flexibility in the works that it shows. As well, its connection to the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design allows it to become a place of learning and research.”
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Haaretz, September 19, 2011
Building upward not outward is the answer, By Shanee Shiloh
“Yehoshua Gutman, co-owner of the Gutman-Assif Architects office and a lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design’s architecture department, argues that the state should stop releasing land for development around the cities. The future, he contends, lies in building up the city centers. “Make use of existing physical infrastructures and stop spreading outward,” Gutman urges, adding that building up in the cities isn’t the planning horror story that people claim it to be.”
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The Jerusalem Post, September 17, 2011
City Sights: Street Art, By Barry Davis
“The local creative endeavor is currently receiving an incremental boost as part of the Jerusalem Municipality’s Tabula Rasa (“clean slate”) project, which has harnessed the seasoned talents of some of the city’s leading artists to add some visually pleasing and spiritually uplifting ornamentation to the grubby milieu….The 27-year-old [Shlomit] Sagur, who studied in the Visual Communication Department of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, chose a work by an icon from the Tel Aviv cultural world as the substratum for her piece, opting for Hanoch Levin’s poem “There’s No Room for Two on an Electricity Pole.” Sagur’s painting depicts a large woman sitting next to a bird on an electricity cable. The artist says that for her the poem symbolizes urban solitude.”
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Haaretz, September 16, 2011
Brave New World, By Yuval Saar
“In the age of Facebook, so the saying goes, if it wasn’t photographed, it didn’t happen. In the age of Instagram – an iPhone app that has garnered seven million users in less than a year – if it wasn’t photographed with a clear filter, low resolution and burned border, it didn’t happen….Everyone is taking pictures, all the time. There’s even a new name for it: ‘iPhonographers’ – people who take pictures with iPhones,” says Talia Zeligman, a graduate of the Hadassah Academic College photography department and an independent consultant who lectures in the visual communications department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design…At the last end-of-year exhibition of the Bezalel photography department, Gilad Baram showed his final project, entitled “Photoscape” – an international, interactive work based on video communication via the Internet….Just over a month ago, Dan Madorsky, also from Bezalel, exhibited his final project, which was also related to photography as it appears on the Internet.”
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