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Ohad Meromi: The Boy From South Tel
Aviv, 2001 (detail); Styrofoam, paper,
hair, plastic beads; now on display in
the Israel Museum exhibit "Real Time:
Art in Israel 1998-2008."
Amitai Mendelsohn, a curator at the
Israel Museum who has organized a
major exhibition, now at the museum,
that focuses on the latest generation of
Israeli artists. Titled "Real Time: Art in
Israel 1998-2008" and running through
Aug. 30, the show features many of the
artists who now live and work in New
York: Guy Ben-Ner, Ohad Meromi and
Ofri Cnaani. But even if they do not
return, he said, repeating a commonly
heard sentiment, "that doesn't make
them any less Israeli."
Still, some observers argue that some-
thing gets lost in the constant moving.
"To the question of national identity, I
tend to be of the opinion that the healthi-
est art is the kind that grows on some
fixed soil;' said Jed Perl, the art critic for
the New Republic.
Still, it is worth noting that in recent
years, the New York art scene has become
even more enticing for Israelis. The Israel
Artists Fund for Visual Arts at Columbia,
created in 2003, awards two scholarships
to its master's program each year. Rivka
Saker, the head of the Sotheby's Israel
department, created Artis in 2004 to
promote young Israeli artists in New York
throughout the year.
It maybe a telling sign that the
American-Israeli Cultural Foundation
now gives half the overseas scholarships
it awards as a grant and the other half as
a loan. The loan component is forgiven if
the artist returns to Israel.
And Bezalel, responding to the depar-
tures of some of its young artists to
graduate programs abroad, created its
own graduate program in 2001. The
University of Haifa also recently created a
graduate program in the arts.
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