Dispatch: Israel Museum

Walking up the grand promenade of the refreshed and expanded, $100 million, 20-acre campus of the Israel Museum is exhilarating, even exalting. Approximately five years in the planning and execution, the museum’s 45th-anniversary building project is the most ambitious cultural development enterprise in Israel’s history.

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Nivi Alroy

TEL AVIV Fresh Paint 4 Interdisciplinary artist Nivi Alroy, recipient of last year’s Igal Ahouvi Art Collection prize, recently presented “Food Chain,” an exhibition of sculptural installations, an animation piece, and paintings.

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“Italian Sculpture of the XXI Century”

MILAN Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro For “Italian Sculpture of the XXI Century,” curator Marco Meneguzzo selected works by 80 artists, ranging from elder statesmen (Nunzio and Dessì) to mature artists of the next generation (Cattelan, Bartolini, Dynys, Arienti, Moro, Beecroft, Cecchini, Sissi, Demetz, and Cuoghi), to younger, up-and-coming artists (Sassolino, Simeti, Previdi, and Gennari).

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Ayano Ohmi

NEW YORK Ceres Gallery Ayano Ohmi, a long-time resident of New York City, originally comes from Japan. Her recent show featured groupings of slender totems that belong to neither the Western nor the Asian tradition; instead, they relate to the now worldwide experience of modernity.

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