Erev Rav: Art. Culture. Society
Erev Rav is an independent journal of Arts, Culture and Society, edited by Yonatan Amir and Ronen Eidelman;
Established in early 2010 to advance the discourse on art, and to support a multi-cultural, democratic, pluralistic discussion on culture.
Erev Rav online magazine publishes articles, reviews, interviews and essays about art and culture.
In addition to our online journal, we publish special printed Issues based on themes, and organize events such as video screenings,
performances and artist talks.
Statement on the firing of Artforum's editor and call to stop this atrocious war
- 27/10/2023
But what makes our stomachs turn is that we are spending too much time dealing with privileged art world debates while we are still mourning the dead; the hostages are still captive, and we are busy trying to heal the wounds in bodies and souls and take care of the hundreds of thousands displaced in Israel. Even more so with the ongoing horrific bombings in Gaza – the bodies piling up, the thousands of children dying. And the war has just started.
Both Should Come Together
- 22/10/2023
There should be no contradiction between staunchly opposing the Israeli occupation and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and unequivocally condemning brutal acts of violence against innocent civilians in Israel.
A letter from members of the Art community addressing the OPEN LETTER FROM THE ART COMMUNITY TO CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS
Unmasking practices: the "Archive" of Tamy Ben-Tor and Miki Carmi
- 07/08/2022
These two books document Carmi's and Ben-Tor's explorations of the crucial role of representation in the categorization and objectification of the figure of the "other", especially with racial theories of the 19th and 20th centuries in Western cultures.
Is/Was: On Phantoms and Internal Malfunctions
- 30/05/2021
"The Israeli landscape is haunted by ghosts. Assembling what she refers to as “a worldview,” Arieli shapes a panoramic view of a landscape defined by the uneasy presence of its missing limbs"
The Austrian Connection in Israeli Art
- 31/01/2021
Jewish Artists with strong Austrian background can be found in the expanding collection owned by Ofer Levin. Austria as reflected in the Levin Collection constitutes a significant link in the development of Israeli Art
Humility at Its Finest: In Memory of Miriam Tovia Boneh
- 01/01/2021
A Short Biography Born in Tel-Aviv-Yafo in 1932, Miriam Tovia Boneh graduated from Ha’Midrasha in 1962 and worked for a while as a practicing artist. Toward the end of the 1960s and early 1970s, while remaining in the art field, she shifted from working as an artist to teaching and curating. In 1978–1979, as a […]
Professor DeGiulio and Dr. Zoom
- 29/07/2020
"I think that part of being a professor is performing some kind of stability, if not authority, and I wanted to admit to being as destabilized as the structures that typically hold us in place, using soft, malleable materials"
– Artist Dana DeGiulio and Roni Aviv in conversation
Welcome Home, Sweet Misfit
- 26/05/2020
"One of the immediate complications I see with representation of queer life in public has to do with the delicate balance between the pleasure of being queer and the pleasure of looking at the queer; and how the two can contradict each other in cases of recklesness"
Turning A Dress Into A Symbol
- 22/05/2019
"By separating the dresses into nine different categories, the curators sort the works underneath umbrella concepts–memory, voyeurism, marriage, the female nude, girlhood, strength, embroidery, social status, and gender fluidity". Jenna H. Romano on "Her Dress, Her Symbol" at Agripas 12 and Marie Gallery
Santiago Sierra: "Death knows no nationalities"
- 29/09/2018
"Israel's greatest virtue is its cosmopolitanism; to lose it in exchange for ostracism will not bring any positive outcomes. Of course, I see a great need to put pressure on Israel's militaristic policies, and that is a good reason to expose my work in Tel Aviv" – Keren Goldberg in an email interview with Santiago Sierra
Pre-Conditioned Tracks – Works by Dan Robert Lahiani
- 31/05/2018
"These videos stand as a fresh example to consider the perennial question about an artwork's ability to communicate itself. The impressions made by the fragmented scenes in his videos offer a kind of immediate intelligibility."
Building An Artists Alliance
- 20/02/2018
Gideon Smilansky spoke with Graham Lawson about the Alfred Institute’s new online platform for connecting the independent art world
Postmemory: The Censored Art of Maarten van der Heijden
- 03/10/2017
The director of the Museum of Underground Prisoners in Jerusalem has censored works from exhibitions on view at the museum as part of the Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art. Amsterdam-based artist Maarten van der Heijden’s Shoah art is among the censored works. David Sperber writes about his work
“Afterword: For the Children,” An installation by Helène Aylon,
- 29/09/2017
Eylon’s feminist critique precedents were in the first wave of the American feminist movement. Feminist leaders (who happened to be Christian) not only demanded social and legal changes but understood the power of the biblical tradition and Church status and thus worked for a radical change in consciousness. By, David Sperber
Take a seat with "Black Couscous"
- 30/08/2017
A lush field of barley, figs, grapes and tomatoes drying in the sun and great conversation. Amy Sapan visited "Black Couscous" by Rafram Chaddad Boaz, a site-specific work located on a rooftop in Jerusalem just a stone's throw away from the Old City.
Art and Politics in Arad
- 16/03/2017
Graham Lawson visited Arad and talked to Hadas Kedar about her role as city artist and head curator of the Arad Contemporary Art Center
Poetic, Yet Crass Nature
- 28/02/2017
Tali Tamir on "Where?", Shimon Pinto's installation in Be'eri Gallery, and the performance that accompanied the closing event
Thirst for what lies “beyond all boundaries”
- 26/12/2016
The transgenders drawn by Roey Heifetz move not only between genders, but also between the body image of a diva that is cultivated to perfection and never grows old and the real body, withered and weary, which cannot overcome time.
Review by Yonatan Amir
A Belgian Choreographer Navigates the Israel-Palestine Conflict
- 06/07/2016
by Dana Shalev | Written originally on February 17, 2016
Right-wing Protesters Attack Art Talk in Jerusalem
- 06/07/2016
by Yonatan Amir & Ronen Eidelman | written originaly on November 17, 2014