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Second-annual UNC Indian literature festival uplifts cultural arts and history
Vishal Varadarajan, a junior majoring in community and global public health who performed with UNC Bharat Sangeet on Saturday morning, said he and the other Bharat Sangeet members were excited to see Penn. Varadarajan also said he attended JLF in...

Sculptor Brian Jungen wins top Canadian art prize
The artist Brian Jungen—renowned for transforming Nike Air Jordans into Northwest Coast First Nations masks—has won the 2025 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts. In the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver’s historic Pacific ballroom on Friday (26 September),...

Art Basel Paris to offer extra-early preview slot for ‘closest clients’
The forthcoming edition of Art Basel Paris (24-26 October) will allow participating galleries to invite up to six guests to tour the fair the day before its First Choice VIP opening on Wednesday 22 October. The new time slot, titled Avant...
Artist Shahzad Hassan Ghazi plays with textures and time in solo Dubai exhibition 'Grace Versus Strength'
To an artist, self-expression is a basic need. And Pakistani creator Shahzad Hassan Ghazi finds he leans towards the abstract to explore perception, to filter meaning from a scene, to ground him in the present. The artist’s work has been showing...

Arts Around the Fire opens season with House of Waves founder
The Arts and Cultural Alliance of Newport County will kick off a new season of Arts Around the Fire on Oct. 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Sardella’s Restaurant, 30 Memorial Blvd. West. The free event is open to the public and requires no reservations....

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property On the Global Agenda
AI has expanded rapidly in the last decade and is now immersed in almost every area of human development, from health care and law to writing and art. The international community has recognized a need to regulate this rapidly developing...
Painting competition under Sewa Parv
LIKABALI, 29 Sep: As part of the ongoing celebration of Sewa Parv 2025, a painting competition on the theme ‘Vision of Viksit Bharat’ was organised by the Art & Culture Department, in collaboration with the Lower Siang district administration, at...
Arts & Culture Dunsany Heritage Talk 2025 to look at story of Oliver Plunkett Saint's 400th anniversary and 50th anniversary of canonisation 19 minutes ago
Saint's 400th anniversary and 50th anniversary of canonisation Published: Mon 29 Sep 2025, 10:27 PM Last updated: Mon 29 Sep 2025, 10:28 PM The Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnois, Bishop Paul Connell, will deliver the Dunsany Heritage Talk 2025 this...

Cultures converge at Mid-Autumn Moon Festival in San Jose
Editor’s Note: This article was written for Mosaic, an independent journalism training program for high school and college students who report and photograph stories under the guidance of professional journalists. Saturday’s Mid-Autumn Moon...

Artificial intelligence may not be artificial
The term artificial intelligence renders the sense that what computers do is either inferior to or at least apart from human intelligence. AI researcher Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues that may not be the case. Agüera y Arcas, Google’s CTO of...

Cultural Evening in Brussels Celebrates Turkmenistan’s Independence Day
A cultural evening titled “Treasures of Independence: Celebrating Turkmen Heritage” took place in Brussels to mark Turkmenistan’s Independence Day. Hosted by the Embassy of Turkmenistan, the event gathered representatives from European Union...

Is Vermeer’s ‘The Art of Painting’ in fact a lost work?
Vermeer’s The Art of Painting (1666-68), now a highlight of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, has long been regarded as his masterpiece. The artist retained the picture for the last years of his life, and it has been assumed that he kept the...

Arthur Romano lays out Hull FC motives as club react to latest new signing
New Hull FC signing Arthur Romano. (Image: SW PIX) New Hull FC signing Arthur Romano is determined to make the most of a new 'country and culture' when he links up with the Black and Whites next season. As exclusively reported by Hull Live earlier...

Veteran theatre artist and filmmaker Yashwant Sardeshpande dies of heart attack
Kannada theatre and film communities are mourning the loss of Yashwant Sardeshpande, a renowned stage artist and filmmaker, who died at 62 in Bengaluru due to a heart attack. He collapsed after experiencing chest pain on the morning of September...

Van Cleef & Arpels Opens an Exhibition Dedicated to Art Deco in Tokyo
A century after the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts opened in Paris, heralding what is now known as the Art Deco movement, Van Cleef & Arpels has opened a broad exhibition of their pieces from the mid 1920s to...

October 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
Hokusai, “One Hundred Ghost Stories in a Haunted House (Shinpan uki-e bakemono yashiki hyaku monogatari no zu)” (c. 1790) Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies....


Art and Wine Co-exist in AYA Estate Vineyards Winery
BTA will present dozens of Bulgarian wineries in the New BG WINE Leads the Way series ahead of the 9th UN Global Conference on Wine Tourism, which will be hosted in Plovdiv. The forum is organized by the Ministry of Tourism in partnership with the...

Preserve fine arts as a national duty for generations
Just as various countries around the world have their own traditional cultures and unique customs, the country also has its own distinctive traditions. Myanmar is a nation rich in high-standard cultural heritage. With its own script, traditional...

Putnam County Visual Arts Exhibition winners announced
The sixth annual Putnam County Visual Arts Exhibition, organized by the Greencastle Arts Council in collaboration with the Putnam County Museum, concludes its 10-week run with the announcement of the annual prize winners. With award funds totaling...