Friends of Bezalel

Haaretz, April 18, 2012

rebecca.tobin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:35:23 +0000

Bezalel awards $20,000 prize for ‘absurd’ but ‘poetic’ paintings’, By Daniel Rauchwerger
“Artist Amnon Ben Ami was declared the winner this week of the first ever annual Ilana Elovic Bezalel Prize for Painting, awarded jointly by the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and the Elovic family. The prize consists of a $20,000 monetary grant, a solo exhibition at the Bezalel Gallery in Jerusalem this coming November and an accompanying catalogue.”
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Haaretz, April 4, 2012

rebecca.tobin — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:09:07 +0000

Italy’s Florentine style comes to life in a south Tel Aviv art studio, By Daniel Rauchwerger
“Entering the Tel Aviv studio of artist Lenny Dinar Dothan one encounters hospitality amid charming disorder. Sawdust is scattered everywhere, among the saws, rulers, pencils and books. Propped up against the wall are some of her works, among them a painting in which she is seen nursing her little son against the backdrop of an arch. The classical composition immediately evokes associations with the Florentine school of the Italian Renaissance. Add to this the fact that Dothan works in the Florentin neighborhood of the city – and you have an apt name for her current exhibit – “Florentin,” at the Hahanut Gallery in south Tel Aviv. The tiny exhibition is her first solo one, but the list of Dothan’s activities to date is extraordinarily long and complex….At Bezalel, she dealt with the topic of Jerusalem and submitted a project consisting of a book and paintings – quite a departure from the usual project that consists of a detailed building or an urban plan.”
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The Jerusalem Post, March 29, 2012

rebecca.tobin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:51:30 +0000

Photographers use Facebook to set up art dialog, By Jpost.com Staff
“Social media has been used over the past couple years to organize events that have gone on to change the world as we know it. Now two photography students at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem have decided to use the medium to bring together artists and photographers from around the world. The photographic art dialog coordinated through Facebook called “Interspace” is the brainchild of Jenna Hanson and Gali Baly, both students at the well-renowned design school in Jerusalem.”
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Haaretz, February 28, 2012

rebecca.tobin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:32:43 +0000

Hair-raising art, By Ellie Armon Azoulay
“A beauty parlor in Tel Aviv is the unlikely setting for a new art initiative….Heifetz completed his master’s degree at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2009, and also taught at a special education school. He speaks enthusiastically of the collaboration with the workers at the hair salon, Ofer Idan and Nona Firelli.”
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Haaretz, February 24, 2012

rebecca.tobin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:55:22 +0000

Ode to a woman who drew the Zionist Project, By Nirit Anderman
“With utter devotion to her mission, Friedel Stern drew the people of the new State of Israel with simplicity and insight over her career of seven decades. A new exhibition offers a chance to see how her work has stood the test of time….Friedel Stern was born in Germany in 1916. She attended art school in Leipzig and immigrated to the Land of Israel when she was 20. In short order, she registered for graphics at the Bezalel art school in Jerusalem, where she had the privilege of studying drawing with painter Mordecai Ardon….In Friedel Stern’s glory years, which lasted until the mid-1970s, hers was a household name. Her work extended beyond journalism: She designed posters, drew children’s books, appeared on television, taught drawing at Bezalel, had solo exhibitions and participated in group shows in Israel and abroad.”
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The Jerusalem Post, February 21, 2012

rebecca.tobin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:39:23 +0000

Grapevine: From carbon to gold, By Greer Fay Cashman
“The winner was illustrator and designer Noam Nadav, a lecturer at Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy, whose depiction of the modern family showed the bespectacled female spouse in superwoman costume going off to work with her briefcase, while her husband, dressed as a wrestler, was feeding a baby ensconced in a high chair.”
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Haaretz, February 14, 2012

rebecca.tobin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:08:43 +0000

A new Israeli video game turns bureacratic hurdles into a quest, By Oded Yaron
“Two Bezalel graduates have made an Israeli student’s quest to get a discount on his municipal property tax debt into a game….Rubin says that the game was initially the two graduates’ final project at Bezalel, but it is only now, two and a half years after the two finished their studies, that the pair managed to complete the game.”
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The Jerusalem Post, February 8, 2012

rebecca.tobin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:56:30 +0000

Sushi meets humous, By Inbal Aharoni
“Manga, the Japanese word for “comics/cartoons,” consists of comics and print cartoons. The “Manga at Yamatoya” exhibition showcases the Japanese-style comics, including images drawn by Israel-based Japanese artist and Bezalel Academy of Art & Design graduate Eli Tsuchida; black-and-white work by Japanese illustrator Tettyu Imatani; and the work of several Israeli manga artists whose pieces were chosen for the exhibition through a contest held by AMAI.”
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Haaretz, February 6, 2012

rebecca.tobin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:20:16 +0000

Once Upon an App, By Yuval Saar
“One night as Yuval Perlov told his oldest daughter Ofir a bedtime story, she was disappointed that the story did not have any pictures to play with and suggested that her father “do something on his iPad.” Most parents would probably brush off such comments and continue with the story, just to get the child to fall asleep, but in the case of Perlov – director of development at a start-up, who was been working for many years in the local high-tech industry – his daughter’s suggestion found a receptive ear….Perlov and his daughter starting browsing illustrators’ websites until they found the site of Geffen Rafaeli, 27, a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design’s visual communications department. They gave her the job of designing the characters.”
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The New York Times, January 19, 2012

rebecca.tobin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:13:43 +0000

From G.M., a Window Onto the Future, By Paul Stenquist
“A new suite of interactive games and apps, which G.M. calls Windows of Opportunity, are projected on rear-seat window glass, providing entertainment and perhaps even a bit of education. Lest one worry that the automaker’s engineering corps has been sidetracked from increasing fleet efficiency and build quality, G.M. delegated this project to the researchers and students of the Future Lab at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.”
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