Joshua Simon is an art curator

Curator

A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...

, writer and filmmaker born in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

, Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

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Joshua Simon is Co-Editor of several publications: Maayan

Maayan

Maayan is an Israeli magazine for poetry, literature, art, and ideas. Its first issue appeared in the fall of 2004.-History:...

dedicated for poetry and ideas, Maarvon (Western) dedicated for film, and the New & Bad dedicated for art.

His selected exhibitions include: Sharon (2004, Tel Aviv), Blanks (2005, Tel Aviv), Doron (2007, Tel Aviv), Come to Israel it's Hot and Wet and we have the Humus (2008, Storefront NYC), Internazional (2008, Left Bank Israel communist party culture club, Tel Aviv), Unreadymade (2011, formContent London), ReCoCo (2011-2012 Zurich-Vienna-Holon).

Joshua Simon is one of the founders of the Free Academy group Tel Aviv and curator of the first Hertzliya Biennial.

Art

Simon has curated many exhibitions, most of them political or social. He curated Anihu in Herzliya

Herzliya

Herzliya is a city in the central coast of Israel, at the western part of the Tel Aviv District. It has a population of 87,000 residents. Named after Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, Herzliya covers an area of 26 km²...

 Museum of Art (2005) and Sharon (2004) that put parallel lines between Ariel Sharon

Ariel Sharon

Ariel Sharon is an Israeli statesman and retired general, who served as Israel’s 11th Prime Minister. He has been in a permanent vegetative state since suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006....

 and the Sharon

Sharon, Israel

The Sharon Plain is the northern half of the coastal plain of Israel. Its largest city is Netanya.The Plain lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the Samarian Hills, to the east. It stretches from Haifa and Mount Carmel in the north to the Yarkon River in the south, at the edge of...

 region in Israel. On May 2006, Simon curated the exhibition Doron (gift in Hebrew) that refers to Doron Sabag

Doron Sabag

Doron Sabag is an Israeli art patron and a CEO of a big human resources contractor, O.R.S Sabag also runs Mehalev, a controversial Israeli version of "Wisconsin Plan" in the city of Ashkelon....

 (דורון סבג), an Israeli art patron and a CEO of O.R.S. human resources

Human resources

Human resources is a term used to describe the individuals who make up the workforce of an organization, although it is also applied in labor economics to, for example, business sectors or even whole nations...

, and explored the connection between art and labour rights in Israel. On September 2007 Simon curated the first Israeli biennial, the Herzliya Biennial

Herzliya Biennial

The Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art is an art biennial event held in the city of Herzliya, Israel....

presenting more than 70 artists.

Cinema and poetry

His film The Radicals (2001) was screened in numerous festivals worldwide. It tells the story of a group of young people spraying 'jerUSAlem' on the western wall. In 2011 Simon began working on a film project called PushUp.

Simon published the poetry book National Citizens. In the first issue of Ma'ayan he published a list called "The Prince" exploring his life and views on the world from A to Z.

Journalism

In business magazine Firma (Globes

Globes

Globes is a Hebrew language daily evening financial newspaper, published in Israel. According to TGI 2009 media survey Globes' market share rose 15% over the year to 4.4%. Its main competitors in printed media are TheMarker of Haaretz group and Calcalist published by Yedioth Ahronoth Group...

 supplement), Simon has published articles since 2002, on various item and issues, such as interviews with Menahem Golan

Menahem Golan

Menahem Golan is an Israeli director and producer. He has produced movies for such stars as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and was known for a period as a producer of comic book-style movies like Masters of the Universe, Superman IV:...

, the former education minister Limor Livnat

Limor Livnat

is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud, and as the country's Minister of Culture & Sport.-Biography:Born in Haifa, Livnat is the only member of Knesset not to have a secondary education...

, the former defence minister Amir Peretz

Amir Peretz

Amir Peretz is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Labour Party. He is a former Defense Minister of Israel and former leader of the Labour Party, having left those positions in June 2007....

, and the Israeli Prime ministers Ehud Ulmert and Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of Israel. He serves also as the Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.Netanyahu is the first and, to...

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External links

• Maayan Magazine Website
• the Doron exhibition website