site.news_by_theme arts

Australia challenged to match France in promoting indigenous art Australia has been challenged to match France's promotion of Aboriginal art after the inauguration of a landmark work in Paris.
07 June 2013
©REUTERS/Bobby Yip Chinese imitators copy Hong Kong's giant duck The popularity of a giant inflatable duck afloat in Hong Kong harbour has not gone unnoticed in mainland China, where two copies have been launched in as many days.
02 June 2013
Norwegian father of 'The Scream' finally recognised at home Long neglected at home, Edvard Munch is finally to get his due as Norway honours one of its greatest artists with the most comprehensive retrospective ever to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.
01 June 2013
©REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama After Kabul attacks, 10,000 peace balloons After a day of explosions and gunfire, residents of Kabul woke up on Saturday morning to be greeted by a public art project in which volunteers handed out 10,000 neon-pink "peace" balloons.
27 May 2013
Digital reincarnation for Dunhuang's Buddhist art Inching their cameras along a rail inside the chamber, specialists use powerful flashes to light up paintings of female Buddhist spirits drawn more than 1,400 years ago.
26 May 2013
Nikolay Chernikov Killy Kolya. Photo by Nika Kramer / Red Bull Content Pool Kazakhstan’s best break dancer selected in Almaty The contest's jury made of world break dancing stars selected Nikolay Chernikov, a.k.a. B-Boy Killa Kolya, out of 16 contestants.
23 May 2013
NY auction houses toast staggering billion dollar week Two of New York's leading auction houses combined for the art world's richest sales week ever, with works going under the hammer for a breathtaking total of more than one billion dollars.
20 May 2013
Chinese director Jia Zhangke. ©REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier At Cannes, shock movie tests China's boundaries The only Chinese contestant in the running for this year's Palme d'Or, "A Touch of Sin" (Tian Zhu Ding) reaped enthusiastic applause at a press screening on Thursday.
17 May 2013
Christie's art auction sells nearly half billion dollars A blockbuster auction of Contemporary art in New York, including a record $58.4 million for a Jackson Pollock drip painting, fetched nearly half a billion dollars on Wednesday -- the biggest haul ever at an art auction.
17 May 2013
Jackson Pollock work sells for record $58.4 million A Jackson Pollock drip painting sold Wednesday at Christie's in New York for a record $58.4 million and a work by one-time graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat set another record at $48.8 million.
16 May 2013
DiCaprio environmental art auction tops $33 million Leonardo DiCaprio urged wealthy art collectors Monday to bid at an environmental charity auction in New York as if the planet's fate "depends on us" -- and they responded by splashing out $33.3 million.
14 May 2013
Getty Museum in LA lands Rembrandt, Canaletto works The Getty Museum of Los Angeles announced Thursday it has acquired a self-portrait by Rembrandt and a painting by the Venetian artist Canaletto.
11 May 2013
©REUTERS Brazil art to be showcased at Sotheby's in New York Brazilian contemporary art takes center stage at Sotheby's in New York this month in the latest sign of the South American giant's global rise.
02 May 2013
©REUTERS/Kham Historic Chinese silk scroll up for auction in France A section of a silk handscroll depicting a historically important trip by China's longest-serving Emperor is to go up for auction in France next week.
20 April 2013
Kazakhstan Modern Art exhibition. Photo courtesy of organizers Kazakhstan Modern Art exhibition receives Sergey Kuryokhin award Nailya Allakhverdiyeva won in the Best Curatorial Project category at Sergey Kuryokhin award for the exhibition Bride’s Face. Kazakhstan Modern Art.
11 April 2013
Photo courtesy of restlus.com Sensational $1-bln art gift 'transforms' New York Met Cosmetics billionaire Leonard Lauder has given New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art an astonishing, no-strings-attached collection of Cubist art that he assembled over four decades.
10 April 2013
©REUTERS/Osservatore Romano Michelangelo enlisted to help deter youth crime in Italy Michelangelo's art might help deter Italian youths from a life of crime, the interior minister said Monday, praising the loan of a drawing by the Renaissance master to a school in a rough suburb of Naples.
09 April 2013
Romanian bandmaster Cristian Sandu. Photo by Assemgul Kassenova© International Opera Festival held in Almaty This time the festival is timed to the 200th anniversary of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.
03 April 2013
Digital kills beauty: supermodel photographer Sante D'Orazio, a photographer at the heart of the supermodel era, said the switch to digital cameras means greater detail than ever before, but the loss of something more important: beauty.
30 March 2013
Japan's high-tech kabuki theatre set to open The curtain is about to go up at a new theatre dedicated to Japan's centuries-old kabuki-za performing art, sited in a high-tech venue in a 29-storey Tokyo office building.
25 March 2013
Лого TengriSport мобильная Лого TengriLife мобильная Иконка меню мобильная
Иконка закрытия мобильного меню

Exchange Rates

 494.98   521.17   4.92 

 

Weather

 

Редакция Advertising
Социальные сети