{"id":275978,"date":"2019-05-10T13:51:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=28a4b6146bda0c65cb2b1dc7bc505ab3"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:52:32","slug":"haaretz-profiled-ethiopian-israeli-painter-nirit-takele-and-her-community-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/275978","title":{"rendered":"Haaretz profiled Ethiopian-Israeli painter Nirit Takele and her community focus"},"content":{"rendered":"

In May 2019 Haaretz profiled Ethiopian-Israeli artist Nirit Takele, who said she had long painted the disadvantaged Ethiopian community in Israel rather than making a trendy black-art product for New York galleries.<\/p>\n\"Haaretz\n

Takele\u2019s work sat inside a wider story of Beta Israel migration, racism fights inside Israel, and diaspora artists who refuse to separate beauty from the politics of belonging.<\/p>\n

For Ethiopian readers, the piece is not only an Israel arts brief. It is another chapter in how Ethiopian identity travels, gets stereotyped, and answers back on canvas.<\/p>\n

Kept as culture and diaspora archive, the Haaretz profile keeps a named artist and a clear stance: power to the people is a subject, not a slogan for collectors.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> Haaretz<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ethiopian Israeli artist who gives power to the people  HaaretzNirit Takele says she has always painted about the disadvantaged Ethiopian community; it’s not some stream of ‘black art’ shown for the trendy in New York or …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":601742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Ng","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754504,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275978\/revisions\/754504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}