American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Patrick Mcmullan
The generosity of our international family of friends helps us to provide the rich program of exhibitions, publications, and special events that have go the Israel Museum'due south hallmark, and which ensure our continued standing as 1 of the world's leading museums. Contributions to the Israel Museum are tax-deductible in Israel. If yous require a receipt for tax deduction in a country other than State of israel, delight consider directing your gift through one of our International Friends associations.
Friends of the State of israel Museum: Annual Gifts
Israel MUSEUM INTERNATIONALS (IMJIs) make up the Israel Museum'due south global network of young leaders, with active capacity in the United States, Brazil, Canada, and England. IMJIs are invited to exclusive art weekends and events around the earth. To join, please contact your local Friends chapters.
DONORS ($2,000) are listed in the Israel Museum Journal, and are invited to events with their local Friends chapters.
INTERNATIONAL PATRONS ($three,000) are listed in the State of israel Museum Journal and receive invitations to international events around the world, as well every bit an International Art Pass entitling free entry to North American and European museums.
GUARDIANS ($vii,500) sponsor a week in honour of a person or occasion of your option, subsidizing entrance fees for children, students, soldiers, disabled persons, and senior citizens. Guardians likewise receive all benefits of Patrons.
Friends of the State of israel Museum: Cumulative Gifts
Cumulative gifts totaling $100,000 or more are recognized in the three special categories:
Sponsors ($100,000 - $249,999)
Benefactors ($250,000 - $999,000)
Founders ($1,000,000 upwards)
Contributors' receive all donor benefits and their names are permanently inscribed in the Museum's Donor Court and are listed in each edition of the Israel Museum Journal.
If you are interested in pursuing possible avenues of involvement, please contact the Department for for International Relations and Development, at susan@imj.org.il or +972-two-6708827.
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The amazing success story of the Israel Museum can be attributed to our ever-growing network of International Friends who support our activities in a number of ways. Here are some highlights of Friends events around the globe.
Due south African Friends (SAFIM )
This year's SAFIM gala was held in Cape Boondocks at the Moondance Villa on November 13th. The diverse selection of fine art, expertly auctioned by Strauss & Co, piqued the guests' interest. Over one hundred guests attended, including honored guests Prof. Ido Bruno and James Snyder. Proceeds from the event support worthy art initiatives both in South Africa and in the Israel Museum's Youth Wing.
During the SAFIM VIP Programme at Investec Cape Town Fine art Fair, 2018, friends were welcomed to a tailor-fabricated, complimentary experience that culminated in SAFIM'southward almanac VIP Opening Day Bout of the Fair, expertly led by Gordon Radowsky. SAFIM's VIP Members' Program at the FNB Joburg Fine art Fair featured a curated walkabout of stand-out booths with art-specialist, Phillippa Duncan. Members enjoyed exclusive talks by artists and the gamble to meet gallerists and boyfriend collectors. In add-on, SAFIM Johannesburg launched its Collaboration series at The Social Kitchen & Bar, Hyde Park. Office ane of this series of artistic collaborations featured Jonathan Freemantle; creative person and co-founder of Hazard Gallery, Artist, and two immature emerging artists, Jake Singer and Pebofatso Moekena.
American Friends (AFIM)
The American Friends of the Israel Museum Gala took identify at the Plaza Hotel on Oct 29, 2018 in New York City.
Photo by Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
AFIM'due south annual Gala, chaired by Pamela Sanders and Orna Stern, took place on October 29th at The Plaza, and raised over $one.7. The evening featured remarks by artist Thomas Demand as well as a special functioning by Tony Laurels winner Ari'el Stachel from The Ring's Visit and surprise guest advent past award winning Israeli player Sasson Gabay.
Canadian Friends (CFIM)
Pictured left to right: James Snyder, Director Emeritus of the Israel Museum; Elliot and Wendy Eisen, CFIM National Co-Chairs; and Prof. Ido Bruno, Director of the State of israel Museum.
On Baronial 21, the Canadian Friends of the Israel Museum held their 3rd "ane night only" Pop-Upward Museum. Over 250 people attended the issue, held for the offset time at Toronto's pre-eminent luxury design store, ELTE. The result, curated by David Moos, featured 30 artworks– including works by Rodney Graham, Henri Matisse, and Robert Motherwell – on loan from more than xx of Toronto's finest art collections. Renee and Ken Metrick generously hosted the issue, which brought together fellow lovers of fine art and Israel. The consequence raised funds for complimentary archway to the Israel Museum for Israeli children.
On Dominicus, Oct 28, CFIM hosted 60 people for a individual breakfast and behind-the-scenes tour of Art Toronto, Canada's largest international off-white for modern and contemporary art. Guests were treated to presentations by four galleries and the tour was expertly led by Toronto fine art consultant and CFIM Associate, Jessica Yakubowicz Herzig.
Italian Friends (AIMIG)
The Italian Friends of the Israel Museum organized a weeklong tour in Israel, led by Davide Blei, AIMIG President; and Myriam Volterra, AIMIG Council member. On Sunday, November iv, 2018, the grouping visited the State of israel Museum. They enjoyed curator led tours of the Shrine of the Book with Lizbeth and George Krupp Curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Head of the Shrine of the Book, Dr. Adolfo Roitman; the Billy Rose Art Garden with Shua Ben Ari, the Jewish Art and Life Wing with Storage and Drove Managing director, Gioia Perugia; exhibition tour of Manner Statements: Decoding Israeli Dress with Associate Curator, Stella Fischbach Department of Modern Art , Noga Eliash-Zalmanovich; and a bout of the Israeli Art Gallery with Aya Miron, Curator, The David Orgler Israeli Fine art Department.
During their visit to Israel, the AIMIG's group was graciously hosted by members of the Association of Israeli Friends of the State of israel Museum.
During Oct, AIMIG organized a trip for the 16th Architecture Biennale in Venice . Nineteen people attended from six different countries. Highlights included tours of the 10 Chaples in the Wood, deputed by the Vatican, on San Giorgio Island; the dandy glass exhibition of M.V.One thousand Cappellin Glassworks and the Young Carlo Scarpa 1925-1931; tours of the Jewish Museum, Venice Ghetto, and Synagogues by the curator of the Jewish Museum of Venice; a guided tour by Riccardo Calimani, the almost important writer of the history of Italian Jews; the Tintoretto exhibition, both at Palazzo Ducale and Gallerie dell'Accademia; and prestigious dinners hosted by Museum friends in their exquisite Venetian residences, surrounded by the wondrous view of the Canal Grande.
French Friends (Les Amis)
The French Friends hosted a 3 solar day trip to Paris in November, which included the Les Amis almanac Gala, private visits to galleries and collections, as well as exclusive tours. State of israel Museum friends came from France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Israel and the United States.
Over 2 hundred guests attended the Gala Dinner and alive auction which was held at the renewed Pavillon Gabriel. Dinners were hosted by collectors Hélène Nguyen-Ban and Frédéric and Véronique Chiche. Among the locations visited by the Museum's friends during the trip: The Manufacture de Sèvres, Center Pompidou, VNH Gallery, Thousand Palais, Fondation Louis Vuitton, and the Musée d'Art moderne. The group enjoyed a visit with artist Adel Abdessemed, and was honored by the special opening of Gallery Gerard Levy by Gérard Lévy's family. The visit was very moving, equally Gérard Lévy was a longtime and close supporter of the State of israel Museum.
High german Friends
From left to right: Shimon Stein, Dr. Gisela Dachs, Daniel Kühnel, Melody Sucharewicz and Dr. h.c. Sonja Lahnstein
The German Friends of the State of israel Museum held its 18th "Bridging the Gap" dialogue event. Dedicated to major issues of the 21st century, the successful "Bridging the Gap" dialogue serial is based on values of the enlightenment, and stands for the possibility of an understanding across borders and opposites. The series aims to build bridges, reduce prejudices, and assistance counteract conflicts.
This yr's event, titled "Who owns Jerusalem? A place of longing and a place of explosion. Where is the future?" was held on October 23, 2018, in Hamburg. Over 400 people attended. The evening was moderated past Dr. h.c. Sonja Lahnstein-Kandel, Chairman of the German Friends of the Israel Museum. Prof. Dr. Michael Göring, Chairman of the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius, introduced the event. Guests included Dr. Gisela Dachs, announcer and longtime ZEIT correspondent in Israel; Daniel Kühnel, fine art historian and artistic director of the Symphoniker Hamburg; Shimon Stein, former Israeli Ambassador in Federal republic of germany; and Tune Sucharewicz, International Relations Advisor to political and individual institutions in Germany and Israel.
The German Friends and the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius will continue the successful dialogue series in 2019.
Israeli Friends (IFIM)
Left to right: Director Ido Bruno; Tamara Yovel-Jones, Alber Elbaz, Lea Rotstein
Photo: Eli Posner
The Israeli Friends of the Israel Museum held their annual Artishuk Gala event on October 15, 2018. This twelvemonth's theme was inspired by the Museum's Fashion Statements: Decoding Israeli Dress , an exhibition initiated by Tamara Yovel-Jones. The Gala program included short TED-style talks in the auditorium and backside-the-scenes tours of the Museum galleries with curators. Over 450 guests from State of israel and abroad attended the vibrant result.
Proceeds from the evening were donated to the Museum's educational activities for IDF soldiers and youth.
British Friends of the Fine art Museums of Israel ( BFAMI)
London Design Biennale
The British Friends visited the Israeli Pavilion at the London Design Biennale – a co-product of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem and Shankar College of engineering. The Viewing included a Curator led bout of the ExhibitionExposed Nerves followed by a Q&A with Israeli Designers and moderated by Maïa Morgensztern.
Swiss Friends
The Swiss Friends of the State of israel Museum held an auction and Gala dinner on the 26th of November.
185 guests enjoyed the event, where an Israeli chef prepared a fantastic Middle Eastern/N African themed menu, the Afro-beat jazz grouping Quarter to Africa (direct from Tel Aviv) performed with guests dancing until nearly midnight, the sale was a great success, raising large sums for the Museum, including 36 scholarships sold to send under-privileged kids to yearlong art classes at the Museum.
In attendance were His Excellency the Ambassador of State of israel to Switzerland, Mr. Jacob Keidar and Dr. Keidar. As well every bit Honorary President Werner Merzbacher, and the past Presidents of the Swiss Friends – Vera and Didier Bollag, Dr. David Jeselsohn, and Dr. Ellen Ringier. Director of the Israel Museum, Prof. Ido Bruno; Managing director Emeritus, James Snyder; Council Co-Chair, Marion Naggar; President of the Italian Friends, Davide Blei; and German Friends Chairman, Sonja Lahnstein Kandel also attended.
Brazilian Friends (AABIM)
On November xiiith, the Museum's Brazilian Friends were visited in San Paulo by Dr. Adolfo Roitman of the Israel Museum. Dr. Roitman, Lizbeth and George Krupp Curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Head of the Shrine of the Book, gave a lecture on The Israel Museum every bit a Secular National Temple.
Limited Editions Commissioned by the Israel Museum
At the time of the Israel Museum'due south 40th Anniversary in 2005, International Council Co-Chair Marion Naggar looked for a way of honoring and supporting the Museum while strengthening its connections with gimmicky artists. This resulted in the cosmos of signed limited edition works past internationally known contemporary artists which were sold for the benefit of the Museum – helping it maintain its prestigious condition as one of the earth's leading encyclopaedic museums.
The first creative person to generously agree to participate was Damien Hirst followed by Yinka Shonibare, Ron Arad, Liza Lou, William Kentridge, Arik Lévy and Jeff Koons, all of whom are represented in the Museum'south collection. About recently, in commemoration of his acclaimed 2017 exhibition at the Israel Museum Maybe, Maybe Not, Chinese creative person Ai Weiwei created Hands without Bodies – the ninth sculpture in this sectional express edition series.
To purchase a limited edition of any of the works beneath, delight contact Carina Auerbach at carinaue@imj.org.il, +972-2-670-8890
Hands without Bodies, 2017, Ai Weiwei
Porcelain, life-sized (approx. 50 x 20 cm), edition of fifty.
Price: $50,000
Celebrating his acclaimed 2017 exhibition at the Israel Museum Maybe, Maybe Not, Ai Weiwei has created Easily without Bodies, the 9th in a series of limited edition artworks initiated in 2005 by International Council Co-Chair Marion Naggar.
This life-sized work, in celadon-glazed porcelain, reflects the artist's deep conventionalities that the futurity of humanity relies on the force of connections between people. This ideal is something which very much resonates with the philosophy and mandate of our Museum which welcomes all sectors of the population regardless of historic period, background, religion, ethnicity, or special needs.
Illusion, 2014, Arik Levy
Serial of unique, rima oris-diddled sculptured vases in silvered and colored art glass (twoscore x twenty cm).
- The silvery vase is an edition of forty + 2 APs, priced at $10,000
- The colored vase is part of an edition of xx + 2 APs, priced at $15,000 (excluding VAT and shipping).
All pieces volition be signed past the artist and issued a document of authenticity.
Illusion, the sixth in the Israel Museum's exclusive commissions of limited editions by leading contemporary artists to benefit the Museum, investigates the relationship between solid and liquid, being and absence, clarity and deformation. Its appearance forever evolving, this sculpture never looks the same twice. Perpetual interaction with the low-cal and infinite result in a unique sculpture – in the artist'due south view, a unique spirit like every person.
Multi-disciplinary creative person, technician, photographer, designer, and video artist Arik Levy was born in Israel in 1963 and moved to Europe after participating in his starting time group exhibition in Tel Aviv in 1986. He graduated from the Art Centre Europe in Switzerland and, later a producing products and pieces for exhibitions in Japan, return to piece of work in phase installations in Europe.
The creation of his current studio in Paris led him back to art and industrial design, and his work tin can be seen in galleries and museums worldwide. All-time known for his sculptures – such as his signature Rock pieces, his installations, artworks, editions, and design works – Levy withal feels that "the globe is about people, non objects." His work includes public sculpture, also as consummate environments that can be adapted for multi use. "Life is a organization of signs and symbols," he says, "where nothing is quite as information technology seems."
Levy's work is in the collections of museums worldwide, including the Art Found of Chicago; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Museum of Modern Fine art, New York; the Eye Pompidou, Paris; and the Israel Museum.
Assemble 40, 2010, Liza Lou
Series comprised of 40 private sculptures featuring gilded-plated chaplet threaded onto 400 individual strands of stainless steel wire and bound into a single sheaf (25 ten 12 cm) to create a circular field.
The sculpture is available for $22,500 (excluding VAT and aircraft) and is accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity from the artist.
Assemble Forty, 2010, is the fourth in the State of israel Museum's sectional commissions of limited editions past leading contemporary artists to benefit the Museum.
Born in New York Metropolis, Liza Lou emerged in 1996 when her room-size sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of solo labor, this groundbreaking work, now in the Whitney Museum'south permanent drove, utilized glass chaplet as an index of intensive labor and it engaged the materiality and social consciousness that continues to underscore her practice today.
Lou has exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Fine art, New York; V&A, London; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museum of Contemporary Fine art, Tokyo; Fondation Cartier, France, Gimmicky Fine art Museum, Houston, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In addition, her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway; Fundacio Joan Miró, Barcelona; SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; the Bass Museum of Art, Miami and the Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, and she has participated in the 5th Biennale de Lyon d'art Contemporain, France; Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan and ARS 01, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Fine art, Helsinki.
In 2005, Lou moved to South Africa, where she established a studio with Zulu beadworkers. Lou currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She is a 2002 MacArthur Fellow and the recipient of a 2013 Bearding was a Woman Award.
Culture Flower, 2007, Yinka Shonibare, MBE
Image courtesy the creative person and Stephen Friedman Gallery
A frail bouquet of hand-made fabric flowers bundled in a hand-blown opaque black glass vase. (thirty x 27 cm). The exuberant bouquet of gardenias, camellias, peonies and roses is made from the artist's signature African fabric. Each flower has been hand selected by the artist from a unlike batik cloth, and in each arrangement in this edition of forty, the pick of fabric flowers is varied, making each piece unique.
The work is priced at $30,000 (excluding aircraft and VAT) and includes a signed certificate of authenticity by the artist.
Questions of identity and the concept of cultural hybridity play a key office in Yinka Shonibare's sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, and videos. His art deals with race, class, colonialism, exploitation, and the complex relationship between "Beginning" and "Third" Worlds. In spite of this serious subject field matter, Shonibare's works – often featuring his trademark "African" batik fabric – appeal to the viewer's sense of humor and of beauty.
Yinka Shonibare was born in London in 1962, spent his youth in Nigeria, and returned to the Britain to written report fine art, receiving his MFA from Goldsmiths Higher. He continues to live and work in London. Shonibare has participated in seminal group exhibitions worldwide, and his many solo shows include Double Dress at the Israel Museum in 2002 and a 2008 retrospective that traveled from Sydney, Australia, to New York and Washington, DC. His Nelson's Ship in a Bottle was mounted on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2010 and is at present installed at the entrance to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. A recent commissioned outdoor piece of work, Wind Sculpture (SG) I, was on display in Key Park in 2018.
Shonibare was awarded the decorations MBE in 2005 and CBE in 2019; in 2013 he was elected to the Royal Academy. His works are included in prominent collections internationally, amid them Tate, London; V&A, London; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and The Museum of Mod Art, New York.
PizzaKobra Light , 2014, designer and builder Ron Arad
Small masterpiece of art engineering that can be transformed from a flat scroll into a unique object of fluid pattern and can be positioned into a variety of configurations.
PizzaKobra is role of an edition of 40, bachelor at $xv,000 (excluding VAT and aircraft). Each slice is signed by the artist and numbered.
Ron Arad's abiding experimentation with the possibilities of materials and his radical re-conception of the form and structure of objects and buildings has put him at the forefront of contemporary pattern and architecture. PizzaKobra Low-cal, a small masterpiece of art and technology, is a flat curlicue when at balance. In action, it becomes a unique object of fluid blueprint, the hi-tech soft articulations that connect the circular sectors of the spiral creating any number of dynamic configurations over the same simple line.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1951 and educated at the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, and the Architectural Association in London, Ron Arad co-founded the London blueprint and product studio One Off in 1981. In 1989, Ron Arad Associates was established, with Ron Arad Architects formed alongside in 2008 to concentrate on larger architectural commissions. Arad was awarded the Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in 2002 and in 2011 was awarded the London Pattern Week Medal for design excellence. A Professor at the Majestic College of Art in London from 1997 until 2009, he was elected to the Royal Academy in 2013.
Notable among Ron Arad'southward installations and exhibitions isCurtain Telephone call, which opened at the Roundhouse London in 2011 and traveled in 720° grade to The Israel Museum, Jerusalem in 2012. His public sculptures includeBig Blue in Canary Wharf (2000),Evergreen! in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo (2003), andVortext in Seoul, South Korea (2011). Architectural projects include the foyer at the Tel Aviv Opera House (1994), Hotel Duomo, Rimini (2006), and the Pattern Museum Holon, State of israel (2010). His works are found in museum collections worldwide, amidst them the Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Five&A, London.
Traveling Loans and Exhibitions
Traveling Exhibitions
Bologna, Italia: October xv, 2017-February 11, 2018 and Madrid, Espana: March 22-July 15, 2018 –
Duchamp, Magritte, Dalí: The Revolutionaries of the Xx Century: Masterpieces from The State of israel Museum, Jerusalem is on brandish at the Palazzo Albergati in Bologna, Italyuntil Feb 11, 2018 . The exhibition will and then travel to Palacio Gaviria in Madrid.
NYC, United states: November 3-March eighteen, 2018 and San Francisco, Us: August 30, 2018-January 6, 2019–Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress , currently on display at the Jewish Museum, New York, will travel to the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. In the Press>>
Lisbon, Portugal: February 28-May 27, 2018 –No Place Like Domicile will be on display at Museu Colecção Berardo.
Tokyo, Japan: June 6-July 29, 2018–The Phenomenon of M.C Escher: Prints from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem will be on display at the Ueno Royal Museum.
Paris, France: September 15-December xx, 2018 –Doing Fourth dimension in Holotwill be on display at the Musée d'Art Moderne, accompanied by a special French/English language edition of the exhibition catalogue.
Loans
Munich, Germany: October 30, 2017-April 4, 2018; Humlebæk, Denmark: May-August 2018; Cologne, Germany October 2018-January 2019–Kandinsky at Teais on loan equally function of theGabriele Münter– Creative Visionexhibition at Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München in Munich, the Louisiana Museum of Modernistic Art in Humlebæk, and Museum Ludwig Köln in Cologne.
Berlin, Germany: December 10, 2017-Apr 30, 2019– Rosh Hashanah Greeting Cards and replicas from the Archaeology Wing are on display inWelcome to Jerusalem, an exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Augsburg, Federal republic of germany: Jan 29-June 30, 2018– A Torah ark curtain from Kriegshaber, Germany circa 1724 volition be role of an exhibition on the Kriegshaber Jewish Customs at the Jewish Culture Museum.
Frankfurt, Federal republic of germany: February 8-May 21, 2018 – Peter Paul Rubens'The Death of Adonis is on loan every bit part of theRubens: The Power of Transformation exhibition at the Stadel Museum.
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