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Materialness
Through February 3
Parasol Projects Gallery
Friends of Bezalel present an exhibit exploring the complex relationship between material, process, and environment, featuring nine projects created by lecturers, graduates, and students of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Curator: Ariel Lavian.

Film
Incitement
Out January 30
Landmark at 57 West &
Angelika Film Center
After a highly successful festival run including TIFF, New York Jewish Film Festival and a Best Film win at the Israeli Academy Awards, Yaron Zilberman's Incitement will be arriving in New York theaters. First weekend includes special appearances by Rabin family members, and with the filmmakers.

Music
Eli Degibri Quartet
February 6 | 7:30 PM
Regattabar Boston
February 7 | 8 PM
Nighttown Jazz Club, Cleveland
February 11 | 8 PM & 10:30 PM
Blue Note New York
Known for his charismatic performances, Degibri has recorded and performed extensively since the mid-1990s. He has been called "an exceptionally melodic improviser with a big, bold tenor tone" (Bill Milkowski, JazzTimes) and "a bewitching fellow who shows impressive chops, as both a player and a composer." (Karl Stark, The Philadelphia Inquirer). Photo by Dan Balilty.

Music
Lola Marsh
February 8 | 9 PM
Rough Trade
After a critically acclaimed debut album, millions of streams, performances in leading festivals (Primavera, Pukkelpop, Sziget), syncs for "Better Call Saul" & Ebay to name a few, Tel Aviv's indie pop sensation, Lola Marsh perform at NYC's Rough Trade.

Theater
Color Blind: A Staged Performance
February 10 | 6:30 PM
Center for Architecture
Oren Safdie, a celebrated playwright of contemporary architecture culture, will present a staged performance of his new play entitled Color Blind, which satirizes the racial politics of a fictional jury assembled to select a winning design for the Smithsonian's recently built National Museum of African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington DC.

Art
Growing a Garden for an Unknown Lover by Boaz Aharonovitch
Through February 28
ZAZ10TS
Friends of Bezalel present Israeli artist Boaz Aharonovitch's photo-diary, artfully documenting a gardening project that took place in his studio. The outcome of the process is a meditation on the fleeting nature of the garden as a metaphor for the passage of time and longing. Curated by Aya Goshen.

Music
Oded Tzur
February 12 | 7:30 PM, 9:30 PM
Jazz Standard
Israeli born, New York based saxophonist Oded Tzur performs at the Jazz Standard to celebrate his ECM Records debut, Here Be Dragons.

Art
Adi Nes
Through March 1
Fotografiska New York
Adi Nes explores social and political questions revolving around gender, the center vs. the periphery, Eastern vs. Western cultures, ethnicity, Judaism, local myths, militarism, humanism and social justice through his portraits.

Dance
The Third Dance
February 5 - 9
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Israeli choreographers Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor have been creating fascinating dance/theatre pieces that reflect their own personal relationship as a couple in life and on stage. In their new work The Third Dance, performed in the round (audience on all four sides), Niv and Oren reflect upon themes of love, mortality, and the need for acknowledgement. An old-fashioned record player and huge bouquet of flowers play important roles in this highly emotional work.

Art
Tsibi Geva: SUBTRATA
Through February 15
Albert Benda Gallery
The exhibition features a new body of work created over the past two years, defined by the artist's focus on deconstruction and abstraction to convey the emotional and cultural tenor of his surroundings. Motifs of terrazzo tiles, stone walls, and latticework, which have been prevalent in Geva's paintings since the nineteen-nineties, are now pushed to the forefront.