About

This project is dedicated to Israel’s creative artists. I am new here and impressed with the variety and quantity of public art, and with the lack of information about it. This is my attempt to contribute.

You are invited to fill in missing, or incorrect, information, including artist’s names, titles, locations, references, or point out typos and glitches. And on the positive side, comments or suggestions are welcome.

I live in Tel Aviv. You may be able to identify the neighborhood by the geographic distribution of the list. I travel mostly by foot and on each outing find more, mostly sculpture, to add. I’ve delayed uploading the list because each day I find more that ought to be included, but, clearly, it won’t ever be complete.

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Definitions:

“Public” means that no restrictions are imposed or admission charged. Most items are out-of-doors, but could be inside. Usually, they are in prominent locations and easy to find.

“Art” requires a considerable degree of creativity, often reaching beyond one’s area of comfort and involving challenges and risk of failure. It requires courage to put something out there, forever (whatever that means) for everyone to see, and criticize. When the risk is eliminated the result is just decoration.

The best art creates a response in viewers. Sometimes it provokes emotion or thought, but I am not judging quality. If the work is finished, installed and I find it, then I include it. This is more a catalog than accreditation.

Inscribed monuments are important, but not included. Relief sculpture on a monument will be included because of the aesthetic judgment they require.