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Tel Aviv Museum of Art announces the winners of the 2021-2022 Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art Shira Zelwer, Event, 2020. Photo: Shai Ben Efraim. TEL AVIV .- The Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art Committee has awarded the prize to two artists: Shira Zelwer is the winner of the 2021 Prize and Roni Taharlev of the 2022 prize. The prize carries a US$ 10,000 grant to each artist and an accompanying solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Zelwers exhibition will open in June 2022, and Taharlevs exhibition will take place during 2023. Eighty-three artists submitted applications for the prize this year; the Prize Committee included TAMAs Chief Curator Mira Lapidot, curator Emanuela Calò, Adv. Gil Brandes, TAMA Board of Directors member Doron Sebbag and Dr. Doron J. Lurie. Observers: TAMA Director Tania Coen-Uzzielli and founder of the Prize, Dubi Shiff. ....
How the artists behind Shtisel brought Akiva s journey to life The artist Alex Tubis in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 12, 2021. To capture the tensions faced by a young ultra-Orthodox artist, the creative team behind the hit Israeli TV show Shtisel hired two painters who understood the stakes. Michal Chelbin/The New York Times. by Marisa Mazria-Katz (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- In the middle of the night in a Jerusalem alleyway, a black-hatted yeshiva principal stands before a blazing mass of canvas. He has just set fire to his youngest sons paintings portraits of the sons deceased wife and he is somberly watching them burn. ....