Six years after the success of its China: One Hundred Treasures exhibition in 2001, which displayed Chinese treasures covering 5,000 years, from neolithic bronzes to Ming porcelains, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, presents the newest chapter in the history of Chinese art on view from September 18, 2007 to March 1, 2008.

Hidden Cities (2006-2007) is a new series of drawings by veteran Israeli artist Yemima Ergas. In these works, cities rise out of charcoal strokes and smudges, creating familiar-looking, yet unidentifiable places: a building, a street, a bridge, a stadium. These hidden, anonymous cities contain structures that are repeated again and again in the various drawings, sometimes in the foreground and sometimes fading into the distance.

Rockefeller Museum opens a new exhibition, Beliefs and Believers: Ancient Art from the Israel Museum, which showcases, in its own unique setting, 34 of the most striking and significant objects from the permanent archaeology galleries of the Israel Museum.

The Ruth Youth Wing in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, is focusing this summer on water, its role in our lives, and its representation in works of art from ancient times until today. The Water in Art and Life exhibition brings together works of painting, sculpture, photography and video art, as well as interactive installations, multimedia educational information and a variety of hands-on activities.

"Eden - East And West: Art In The 19th Century" is the title of an exhibition that will open at the Israel Museum through June 18, 2007. The subject of one part of the exhibition is the Middle East and the Land of Israel in the 19th Century as a focus of yearning, longing, and curiosity, as well as of a patronizing look at the "different" and the "exotic."

The Israel Museum presents its first solo exhibition of young Israeli artist Michal Helfman. Tel Aviv-native Michal Helfman (b. 1973) has become, since her graduation from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1998, a well-known name on the local art scene. Winner of the prestigious Wolf Foundation Anselm Kiefer Prize in 1998 and the Young Artist Prize in 2001, Helfman's installations have been seen in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad.

Avraham Ofek's early paintings contained portrayals of landscape that were at once lyrical and rugged; later in his career, most depictions of the landscape appeared as undefined and receded into the background.The exhibition will be on view through through June 18, 2007, at Israel Museum.