{"id":504484,"date":"2026-06-21T21:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/504484\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T21:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:16:13","slug":"israeli-kinetic-art-pioneer-yaacov-agam-dead-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/504484\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli kinetic art pioneer Yaacov Agam dead at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli artist Yaacov Agam, considered to be the father of the Kinetic Movement in modern art, died on Sunday at the age of 98, the Agam Museum announced.\n<\/p>\n<p>Agam, who was awarded the Israel Prize for Visual Arts in April, was known for works that incorporated movement, light, color and viewer interaction.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A public memorial ceremony will be held on Monday at the Agam Museum in the central city of Rishon Letzion from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. local time, followed by the funeral, which is scheduled to depart from the plaza of the military cemetery in Rehovot.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-promo\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com\/signup\/?utm_source=jewishchronicle-articles&amp;utm_medium=middle-link&amp;utm_campaign=signup-buttons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet The Jewish Chronicle Weekly Edition by email and never miss our top stories<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com\/signup\/?utm_source=jewishchronicle-articles&amp;utm_medium=middle-link&amp;utm_campaign=signup-buttons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFree Sign Up<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe art world in Israel and around the globe is bidding farewell to one of its great innovators,\u201d the Agam Museum said in a statement. \u201cYaacov Agam dedicated his life to groundbreaking artistic creation that transformed modern art and influenced generations of artists worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Born in Rishon Letzion in 1928, Agam studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem before continuing his education in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. Over a career spanning more than seven decades, he created works exhibited at major institutions worldwide, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Among his most notable works are the Fire and Water Fountain in Tel Aviv\u2019s Dizengoff Square, the kinetic fountain in Esplanade de La D\u00e9fense in Paris and a giant Chanukah menorah displayed annually on New York\u2019s Fifth Avenue. PJC<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jns.org\/syndication\/pixel?post_id=0000019e-e990-d2c5-a5de-fbbcf7b80000&amp;canonical=https:\/\/www.jns.org\/news\/israel-news\/israeli-kinetic-art-pioneer-yaacov-agam-dead-at-98\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"display:none;\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli artist Yaacov Agam, considered to be the father of the Kinetic Movement in modern art, died on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-504484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}