An American-Israeli collaboration: Kaki King and Tamar Eisenman

July 21, 2010 - 2:13 PM by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: A New Reality, General, Israeliness, Life, Music, Pop Culture 


Tamar Eisenman is an Israeli singer/songwriter who performs in English, with a penchant for indie rock. Kaki King is an American guitar virtuoso, who over the last five years, has developed a good-sized cult following for her amazing fingerwork and her own brand of singer/songwriting.

The two met last year on a joint bill in Hamburg, Germany and struck up a friendship. Eisenman invited King to come play with her in Israel, an offer she readily accepted without pinpointing a date. Next thing she knew, her upcoming scheduled tour of Europe included a show in Tel Aviv with Eisenman.

Tamar Eisenman, above, and Kaki King, top, make an international team.

The international summit is scheduled to take place on Friday at the Barby Club in Tel Aviv.

“I didn’t know anything about Tamar, but she was great [in Hamburg]. The show was awesome and after we hung out together,” King said this week while on tour in England.

Eisenman’s 2009 album Gymnasium became a local favorite, propelling her from the obscure into an Israeli radio staple. King said that she was looking forward to learning some of Eisenman’s material and trying it out live.

“We’ll play some songs together,” promised King. “I’m not sure what, but we’ll figure it out when I get there.”

It’s a testament to the grand streak of artists coming from abroad this year to Israel that someone of the stature of King, who’s been called a ‘guitar god’ by Rolling Stone and has won a Golden Globe for the original score the Sean Penn-directed film Into the Wild, can basically sneak into town so unobtrusively. But it’s also a testament to the sophisticated Israel music scene that the King-Eisenman show will probably be packed.

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Drawing, sculpting and designing women

November 19, 2008 - 4:20 PM by · 1 Comment
Filed under: Art, History and Culture 

Sitting TorsoIt’s well known that women played a key role in the forging of Israel’s military, intellectual and agricultural successes in the early generations of the nation. Just ask the leadership of the Union of Creative Women in Israel.

But many argue that women’s role in Israel’s formative visual arts scene has been given the short end of the stick. A group of women scholars has recently undertaken an extensive research project exploring the matter, yielding a formidable report entitled Creative Women in Israel, 1920-1970. The volume chronicles the lives and accomplishments of some 51 female photographers, 28 female architects and 86 female painters/sculptors, many of whom were celebrated in their time but are sadly overlooked or under-respected now – and that’s not counting 35 more figures not covered in depth in the book but currently being examined by the group.

Now that the book is set to be published imminently by Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of the Arts, the school has organized an entire day-long conference surrounding the occasion.

Entitled Creative Women of the Visual Arts in Israel and taking place this Sunday from 10:15 a.m. into the evening hours, the conference has been planned by an academic board headed by Dr. Ruth Marcus of the TAU Department of Art History. Many local and international presenters are involved as well, including Dr. Ines Sonder of Potsdam’s Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies, speaking about under-celebrated architect Lotte Cohn; Dr. Ruth E. Iskin, Ben-Gurion University professor of the Arts, author of Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting; and Prof. Tamar Garb of London’s University College, speaking about Feminism, Art History and the Challenge of the Woman Artist.

Pictured is long-lost sculptress Sulamit Nem Salom’s bronze Sitting Torso, used by permission from Creative Women in Israel, 1920-1970.

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