TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART
Museum To Double Its Space With New Building Next year
Story and Photos by Tim Boxer
USAN
SANDERS, co-chairman
with her husband Martin of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
gala dinner at the Metropolitan Club, looked lovingly at her
husband as she recited from the Book of Ruth: "Where you go I
will go, where you live I will live, your people are my people,
your God is my God, and where you die I will die."
"After that," Martin exclaimed, "the
only thing I can do is go to heaven!"
"No!" Susan shrieked. "Buy me some
jewelry!"
Applause erupted from all the women in
the audience.
Dr. Mordechai Omer, director
and chief curator of the museum, reported that he will open a
new building in November 2011 that will double the space of the
museum. The architect is Preston Scott Cohen, a cousin of
two of the dinner guests—artist Donald Sultan and his
sister, Terrie Sultan, director of the Parrish Art Museum
in Southampton.
Omer honored Dominique Levy,
co-owner of L&M Art Gallery in Manhattan; Yael
Borovich, director and curator of education at the Tel Aviv
Museum of Art, and New York artist Philip Pearlstein.
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Joan Genser, Mordechai Omer and
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Mordechai Omer, Anita Kahn and Lionel
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