BERLIN TO HOST MAJOR ISRAELI ART EXHIBITION

Last week, German President Horst Kohler visited Israel to mark forty years since the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries. Now Berlin is working on a giant exhibition of Israeli art, to open on May 19, Dana Gillerman reports in Haaretz. “This is the largest exhibition of Israeli art ever held outside of Israel,” the Israel Museum, which is participating in the event, announced last week. The exhibition, titled “100 Years of Israeli Art,” will be held at the museum at Martin Gropius House, one of the most important art exhibition spaces in Germany.