Once upon a time, Tel Aviv's skyline was simple, comfortable, consistent; until one day a skyscraper went up...then another...and another...and the White City – and entire country for that matter – spiraled into a violent game of construction pong as bigwigs compared blue prints, arguing over "whose is bigger?"
by Nava Joy Uzan
The newest exhibition at Jaffa's coolest bar-art gallery-antique shop hybrid, Cuckoo's Nest, addresses the rapid growth that swept over the urban space and in front of our eyes before we could even blink.
by Adi Oz Ari
Steel City not only deals with these changes, it delves into the artist's observations and creative interpretations of the urban landscape – far removed from its old street shops, cafés, and neighborhood charm.
by Nitzan Mintz
From February 7-27, thirty talented artists will present installations, photographs, drawings, sketches, video art projects and more as they try to make sense of the malleable social fabric wrapped around the country's steel, iron, and glass towers.
by Gili Dyn
Cuckoo's Nest wouldn't be Cuckoo's Nest without a host of other activities, lectures, and artistic & musical offerings to pair with the Steel City program. Over the duration of the exhibition, there will also be: performances by Avinoam Sternheim and Shimrit Malul, paintings by Yoash Foldesh and Yariv Fisherman, and a lecture by Inbal Timor on her journey to Haiti and life in the city of Port-au-Prince.
by Michal Ilan
"Now we are left with a world without urbanism, only architecture, ever more architecture. The neatness of architecture is its seduction; it defines, excludes, limits, separates from the 'rest' – but it also consumes." - Rem Koolhaas (What Ever Happened to Urbanism?)