But of course that is to ignore those who wear nose rings and buff their shaved pates and strive to express their horror and to critique their government with lithographs and manifestoes and fur replicas of the Dome of the Rock. Tamar Getter, one curator of a new exhibition that opened tonight in a funky old industrial district of Tel Aviv, looked around herself at the end of a very successful evening. Her own art played a prominent role, including the video in which she and a colleague read aloud the name, age, village and manner of death of every Palestinian killed so far in the violence that erupted in late September. It takes 40 minutes. It's not much.
Artists are very weak in such moments.
Twelve years after Israeli artists banded together during the first Palestinian uprising for a show lamenting the 21st year of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, they have joined forces to denounce the 33rd. The works will be sold to benefit Palestinian medical clinics. He pointed out one example of the work of the younger generation. It was a miniature Israeli Parliament building made of Lego blocks. It's like child's play.