American Friends of Museums in Israel
Fine Art Online Benefit Auction hosted by Artsy
May 10-24, 2022

Continuing to face the challenges brought on by COVID-19, our partner museums are forging connections with people across the world through exceptional exhibitions, tours, art education and public programs, and learning resources that inform and inspire. In order to help them during these unprecedented times, the American Friends of Museums in Israel is collaborating with Artsy to present a Fine Art Online Benefit Auction from May 10-24, 2022. To preview auction works, please visit American Friends of Museums in Israel | Fine Art Auction hosted by Artsy.

The American Friends of Museums in Israel represents and raises funds for eight outstanding and diverse museums throughout Israel: 

Design Museum Holon, Haifa City Museum, Haifa Museum of Art, Hermann Struck Museum, Mané-Katz Museum, National Maritime Museum, Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, and Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem. 

Auction Info

The online auction features over 70 works including paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper by celebrated artists including:

John Baldessari, Robert Baras, Christiane Baumgartner, Katherine Bernhardt, James Casebere, Anton Corbijn, Jim Dine, Todd Hido, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Damien Hirst, Alex Katz, Karen Kilimnik, Jeff Koons, Robert Longo, Beatriz Milhazes, Yue Minjun, Richard Misrach, Robert Motherwell, Shirin Neshat, Odinakachi Okoroafor, Tom Otterness, Asli Özok, Richard Prince, Sayed Haider Raza, Donald Sultan, and Ai Weiwei, among many others. 

Partner Museums: News and Current Exhibitions Highlights

* Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem is located within the ancient walls of a citadel that guards the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City.

The museum’s $50 million Renewal and Conservation Project will, among other things, preserve and conserve the citadel and introduce new technologies that will present the history of Jerusalem in innovative ways. A separate project also underway is the construction of a Contemporary Art and Design Gallery, which will be the only contemporary art gallery in the Old City.

* Design Museum Holon, housed in an iconic building by acclaimed architect Ron Arad, is Israel’s only museum exclusively dedicated to design. 

The museum’s current exhibition, Overdose, is presented in the upper and lower galleries. Mimicking the structure of a house, installations within each gallery allude to a familiar domestic environment, and feature reinterpretations by artists and designers of 150 everyday objects – all from the Galila Barzilaï-Hollander Collection.

* Haifa Museum of Art is northern Israel’s leading contemporary art institution.

Its current exhibition, Adrian Paci: Still Voices, showcases the influential contemporary artist's video works from 1997 to 2021, which are frequently inspired by histories of displacement. The works on view reflect the artist’s unique ability to focus on specific people and situations that convey universal concepts such as loss and the struggle to overcome it.

* Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art holds one of the largest and most important collections of Japanese art outside Japan.

Among its current exhibitions, Pulling Faces features comic drawings (manga) that appeared in the Edo period, from the 17th through the mid-19th centuries. Reflecting humorous aspects from scenes of everyday life, the works on view serve as a connecting thread between Japan’s past and present.

About The American Friends of Museums in Israel

The American Friends of Museums in Israel recognizes, promotes, and honors its outstanding partner museums in Israel by providing exhibition, program, project, and financial support through the generosity of its donors. In addition, the non-profit organization provides heightened visibility for its partner museums at special events in New York, through virtual programming, and in promotional materials.

For more information call (917) 970-8846 or visit museumsinisrael.org.