American Friends of Museums in Israel Fine Art Online Benefit Auction hosted by Artsy May 23 – June 6, 2025
Edition of 250, hand signed by artist and numbered
NEW YORK, NY – The American Friends of Museums in Israel represents and raises funds for eight outstanding diverse museums that welcome visitors throughout the world with a dynamic range of multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary programming.
They are: Design Museum Holon, Haifa City Museum, Haifa Museum of Art, Hermann Struck Museum, Mané-Katz Museum, National Maritime Museum, Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, and Tower of David Jerusalem Museum.
Each partner museum is noted for their engaging, innovative, and transformative exhibitions, guided tours, art education and public programming that inform and inspire local and international visitors. As part of its fundraising mission, the American Friends’ annual Fine Art Online Benefit Auction hosted by Artsy is now live through June 6, 2025.
Auction Info
The online auction features over 100 works including paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper by celebrated artists including:
Ai Weiwei, Alex Katz, André Butzer, Annie Leibovitz, Bernd Caspar Dietrich, Candida Höfer, Damien Hirst, Derrick Adams, Donald Sultan, Ed Ruscha, Eddie Martinez, Invader, Javier Calleja, Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Katherine Bernhardt, Kenny Scharf, Massimo Vitali, Patrick Rubinstein, Peter Doig, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, and Shirin Neshat, among many others.
Partner Museums: News and Recent Exhibitions Highlights
Tower of David Jerusalem Museum is unique among cultural institutions, offering an immersive opportunity to explore and experience Jerusalem’s heritage as a holy site for three faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In 2023, after completing its conservation and renewal project, the Museum opened its expanded exhibition space comprising ten permanent collection galleries. Housed within are archaeological findings and documents, artworks, innovative interactive stations, video art, and specially produced films illustrating Jerusalem’s 3,500-year history.
The museum’s newest temporary exhibition, On the Other Side, an indoor and outdoor installation of multidisciplinary works by Zadok Ben David, encompasses themes of hope, rebirth, and cycles of nature.
Design Museum Holon, an iconic building by acclaimed architect Ron Arad, is Israel’s only museum exclusively dedicated to design.
Its latest exhibition, Heroines, examines the ways in which clothing and apparel worn by women reflected how they navigated WWII’s hardships. Dozens of complete ensembles, hundreds of accessories, along with video, photographs, and other historical artifacts on view bring their remarkable stories to life.
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa holds one of the largest and most important collections of Japanese art outside Japan.
Currently on view, Under the Wave off Kanagawa, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (1831-1833) by Katsushika Hokusai, serves as the conceptual touchstone for its current exhibition, The Wave Effect – From a Japanese Icon to a Global One. 80 interpretive works by artists including Keren Benvanishti, Gaston Zvi Itzkowitz, Oscar Oiva, and Pierre-Eli de Pibra are presented in dialogue with this international masterpiece.
Haifa Museum of Art is northern Israel’s leading contemporary art institution.
Discoveries abound in the museum’s current exhibition, Africa Calling, an exploration of the second largest continent’s cultural diversity as revealed through some 1000 ethnographic artifacts, which haven’t been on public view for over 30 years.
About American Friends of Museums in Israel
The American Friends of Museums in Israel recognizes, promotes, and honors its outstanding partner museums in Israel by providing exhibition, program, project, and financial support through the generosity of its donors. In addition, the non-profit organization provides heightened visibility for its partner museums through special events held in New York, virtual programming, and promotional materials.
Press Contact: Cecilia Bonn, (212) 734-9754, [email protected] For more information about the auction, please call (917) 970-8846.
