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This is not “just another painting exhibit” by a superb Israeli painter, but rather a “chronicle of a plague year.” Roni Taharlev’s current exhibition documents a year that has been fateful for so many. The year is not yet out, but the world as we knew it has already, to a considerable extent, collapsed into itself.
Who had ever imagined this could happen? As an aficionado of British history, the first notion to come to my feverish mind was the one used by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II in her 1992 speech that marked the 40th anniversary of her coronation. She had all the reasons in the world to …