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“The Circle”: What the New Material of the Design World Looks Like

A dress grown from its own root system. A car that folds itself smaller to move through a crowded city. A machine that pulls drinking water out of the air. An eight-meter wooden whale shark, suspended mid-swim in a gallery. These are not props from a speculative film - they are exhibits, and this September they will fill five spaces inside Design Museum Holon. “The Circle,” opening to the public o...
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When the Table Becomes a Canvas

There are objects we place on a table because we need them. And there are objects that change the table completely, bringing character, memory, texture, humor and a sense of occasion into the space around them. This was the idea behind DI Catalogue’s x ECLECTICTLV  Open Call "One Table" - to discover local artists, designers and makers working across ceramics, metal, textile, wood and other materi...
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The Pouch, the Wing, the Scale: Inside a Wardrobe Built by Evolution

A shirt cut like the pouch of a red kangaroo, offering warmth and shelter. A corset that inflates like the body of a pufferfish bracing for danger. A headpiece born from the crescent-caped lophorina's courtship display. Fashioning Animals, a new exhibition at the Museum of Man and the Living, invites twelve Israeli fashion designers to look past fur and feathers as mere pattern, and into the deepe...
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What Remains When Beauty Fades. A Conversation with Edit Ben Gida

What happens when beauty becomes both a promise and a trap?In her solo exhibition Beauty is Deceptive at Corridor Gallery, artist Edit Ben Gida turns to feminine archetypes shaped by mythology, art history, cultural memory, and imagination. Her figures are not portraits, but images of women as culture has created them: adorned, idealized, feared, desired, and preserved.Through gold, flowers, insec...
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Karina Lumiere. Interview with the Artist

Karina Lumiere is an intuitive abstract artist based in Tel Aviv, whose paintings are filled with color, energy and inner light. She touched a canvas for the first time at the age of forty and what began as a personal need for calm and self-expression became the beginning of a powerful artistic journey.In this interview, Karina speaks about finding her own voice through abstraction, entering the a...
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Venice Biennale 2026: In Search of Authenticity

On May 9, the 61st Venice Biennale opened to the public — one of the most important global events in art and architecture, bringing together 99 participating countries and more than 110 artists across the main exhibition and national pavilions. This year, Israel is once again among the participants, continuing its presence within the international cultural dialogue.We spoke with independent art cu...
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The Impossibility of the Panorama: Image, Memory, and the Atlas in Space

As the exhibition “Panorama: The Sphere of the Atlas” is currently on view at the Bat Yam Museum of Art, we spoke with its curator, Orit Bulgaru (Ph.D), an independent curator and researcher of visual culture, about the ideas behind the project. In the interview, we touch on how images travel across time and cultures, how theory becomes a physical exhibition, and how contemporary artists engage wi...
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Liza Fedotova – interview with the artist

Liza Fedotova is a ceramic artist who came to ceramics from painting and has been working with clay for over seven years.Originally from Moscow, she moved to Israel three years ago, where her practice continued to grow and evolve. Her work is inspired by constructivism and Bauhaus, clean geometry, and balanced, well-defined forms. Liza works exclusively with natural materials, creating each piece ...
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Maison & Objet January 2026: Trends and Highlights

Every January, Paris becomes a focal point of ideas, and Maison&Objet is not just an exhibition, but an indicator of where the design industry is heading. In 2026, this direction is articulated with particular clarity through its theme  - PAST REVEALS FUTURE. Our correspondent Maria Beregovaya, Israeli interior designer with her private practice in Paris, shares her impressions and professiona...
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