To celebrate Harry’s big birthday this weekend, we took a fun-filled family trip to the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. Aside from the animals – and the joy of introducing Tzofi to them (penguins, elephants and monkeys scored high on the smiles and squeals scale) – I really wanted to see the sculpture park created by French [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fine Art'
Where the Wild Things Art
November 4th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Tags: Babies and Kids · Design · Fine Art · Sculpture
Global View or Hostile Corporate (Art) Takeover
November 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments
A recent family jaunt to Tel Aviv led us to the city’s current public art project, Global View. More than 100 globes dotted the beautiful Rothschild Boulevard as part of a joint business-art venture that partnered the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), NY Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and London Stock Exchange (LSE) with 100 leading Israeli [...]
Tags: Events · Exhibitions · Fine Art · Sculpture
Orientation: Gan HaHashmal
October 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Before I continue recounting my adventures in Tel Aviv’s Gan HaHashmal neighborhood last weekend, I thought it only fair to provide some history about this newly-renovated-and-now-super-trendy area. Gan HaHashmal, or “the Electric Garden” in Hebrew, named after the city’s first power plant, is an old area of Tel Aviv that used to be a haven [...]
Tags: Architecture · Fashion · Sculpture
Finger Licking Furniture
October 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Everyone loves chocolate – even the dieting set find the smallest bite hard to resist – and that’s what Beitili, Israel’s ubiquitous mid-range furniture and home design chain, is hoping to achieve with their new season of couches, chairs, dining room sets and matching accessories for Fall/ Winter 2007/8. Their inspiration or theme for this [...]
Tags: Furniture · Home Decor · Sculpture
