"The Zeppelin Over Tel Aviv" – Bograshov Beach, Tel Aviv, Israel

Thanks to their city’s Museum of Art, legions of Tel Aviv’s sunseekers and volleyball players can also enjoy high culture. The Museum – home to one of the Middle East’s leading collections of 20th Century art – has allowed reproductions of its most famous paintings to feature as part of a pop-up gallery featuring works of such well known artists as Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Kandinsky, Van Gogh as well as paintings by lesser known Israeli artists – for example, "The Zeppelin Over Tel Aviv" an oil colour painted in 1926 by the Israeli artist Reuven Rubin.

Rubin painted this image on Purim 1929, when the airship – flying over the country on a journey around the world – became the focal point of holiday festivities. Rubin depicts the special atmosphere by means of miniature figures that are seen from a distance, standing on the roofs of houses decorated with blue-and-white Star of David flags and waving their arms at the passing airship. The ship, the boats, and the pink curtain whose edges are decorated with white lace intensify the carnivalesque atmosphere. It seems like neither the dark clouds hanging over the horizon nor the rain pouring down on the zeppelin can do anything to ruin the scene or to overshadow the joy of the celebrants.