5/01/2008 at 9:30 AM
Tags: Museums, Art, Israel (all tags)
Want to pay to watch a room full of people sitting in a room, scratching their heads because they've got lice? Now you can! An exhibition at the Museum of Bat Yam near Tel Aviv has just that.
Although it sounds totally random, and not exactly enticing, there is some reasoning behind this bizarre display. The museum wanted a display exploring the theme of hosts and guests, and so seven young artists from Berlin came up with the idea of the museum hosting them, while they in turn hosted head lice, for three weeks. And unsurprisingly:
The group acknowledged that living with lice was uncomfortable, but said it was worth it for the sake of art.
It's kind of like Big Brother, with lice. A catchy concept? Probably not, but you might catch the lice.
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· Are Lice Art? [Reuters]
· Israel Travel coverage [Jaunted]
· Museums coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: pshab]
by amandak
9/28/2006 at 9:05 AM
Tags: tourism boards, Israel, languages (all tags)
Don't worry, we don't want to get ourselves involved in any long-running old political disputes. We just want to report the truth. And the truth is that an English-language sightseeing brochure about
Jerusalem boldly proclaimed recently "There is no such city!"
The confusion of any travelers who were already there when they read the news can now be allayed: It was simply a translation error. What it
should have said was "Jerusalem. There's no city like it!" Got a qualification as a translator from Hebrew to English? Looks like Jerusalem needs you.
[Image via Carmelo Aqillina/Flickr]
Related stories:
Jerusalem Lost in Translation [ABC Online]
by amandak
4/19/2006 at 11:55 AM
Tags: Wallpaper*, Design, Israel, Travel Magazines, Berlin (all tags)
The May issue of
Wallpaper* is the most inspiring issue of the magazine in quite some time, with the mag's Newspaper section leading the way.
Case in point: David Kaufman's article on the proliferation of Israeli café chains, several of which are eyeing international markets. The accompanying sidebar pegs 12 coffee bar chains around the world, including Vienna's iconic
Aida, Jordan's
Blue Fig, California's
Peet's, and Cape Town's
Vida e Caffé. The Cape Town chain gets the highest aesthetic praise.
Also covered in the section is the happy return of
Ostalgie. Berlin's former East German State Council building, circa 1964, has morphed into the European School of Management and Technology. (It's hard to keep the excitement out of a place like that, we guess) The honors go to
HG Merz, an architecture firm focusing on museums and renovations, with offices in Stuttgart and Berlin.
Also noteworthy in the May issue: Macau travel, Portuguese canned fish packaging, Paris' Stalingrad 'hood, and new Swedish furniture designers. Note that South Africa joins the Wallpaper pricing elite, with the price of the magazine now listed in rand. We know
just the coffee shop for reading the mag.
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