Tel Aviv turning into one huge art gallery

Yuval Saar, chief curator and the initiator of Illustration Week, and editor of the online Portfolio design and culture magazine, relates: “Illustration Week, which has become a tradition, has created a platform for displaying illustration that did not exist in the past. The success of Illustration Week [in 2014] and its impact on creativity in the field in Israel can be seen in exhibits that will be held this year.”

Saar added that many of the exhibitors for 2015 “dealt in their works with questions of gender, sexual identity, couplehood, family, childhood and technology, and examined the boundaries of the concept of illustration. A great number of exhibits will provide new visual interpretation of stories for children and adults, and some of them will even display original visual books.”

Tzlilit ben Navat, director of the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality’s Fine Arts Department, said this year’s Illustration Week has expanded to galleries, cultural centers, schools, stores, coffee houses and bars across the city.

Visitors to Illustration Week who have never before used taxi service Uber can get a NIS 60 discount on rides from September 3-12 by creating an account here and entering the code “illuweek15” on Uber’s smartphone app.

Abigail Klein Leichman