“When you look for Jerusalem online, the first thing you see is rocks,” Itay Mautner, the artistic director of the Jerusalem Season of Culture protested. “On Flickr, you see more rocks than people.” Mautner and his associates are hoping to give Jerusalem a facelift. The Season of Culture, a super-spanning festival of arts that ran this year between mid-May and early September, is a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Culture and a host of local artists, designers, and musicians to shine a light on Jerusalem’s ever-strengthening art scene.
Margaret Eby
Margaret Eby has written for Slate, Salon, The New York Times, and Print Magazine, among other publications. She's also the author of Rock and Roll Baby Names, out in paperback from Gotham Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her two mischievous cats.
