Any visit to Jerusalem heightens my awareness of history, walking through the city I feel like a wanderer through visible layers of time. On my most recent trip, to see the renovated Israel Museum, I had the privilege of seeing history in the making, as the buildings and grounds were being prepared for the inauguration of the renewed campus scheduled to take place tomorrow, July 26, 2010.
As of last Wednesday, the museum campus still resembled a construction site, with heavy machinery, taped up glass and the large mounds of earth …

Tokyo Fiber SENSEWARE is a futuristic playground for the senses. This intriguing new exhibit opened today at the Design Museum Holon, and will be on view through September 4. Don’t be misled by the word “fiber” – if you think this is a fashion exhibit think again! An imaginative tour of the possibilities inherent in synthetic fibers, Exhibition Director Kenya Hara invited designers from diverse fields to create with the fibers as a way of conveying their potential.
Designer Hara, founder of the Nippon Design Center’s Hara Design Institute, art director …