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Second-annual UNC Indian literature festival uplifts cultural arts and history

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...

Owner:  DTH Media Corporation
Sculptor Brian Jungen wins top Canadian art prize

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),...

Owner:  Calvin Choi
Art Basel Paris to offer extra-early preview slot for ‘closest clients’

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...

Owner:  Calvin Choi
Artist Shahzad Hassan Ghazi plays with textures and time in solo Dubai exhibition 'Grace Versus Strength'
Arts Around the Fire opens season with House of Waves founder

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....

Owner:  Ryan M. Belmore
Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property On the Global Agenda

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...

Owner:  American University in Cairo

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...

Owner:  Audrey Caroline Wood Nongrum & Yadap Apang, & Omak Apang
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
Cultures converge at Mid-Autumn Moon Festival in San Jose

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...

Owner:  Randall D. Smith & Heath Freeman
Artificial intelligence may not be artificial

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...

Owner:  Harvard University
Cultural Evening in Brussels Celebrates Turkmenistan’s Independence Day

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...

Owner:  Tariq Saeedi
Is Vermeer’s ‘The Art of Painting’ in fact a lost work?

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...

Owner:  Calvin Choi
Arthur Romano lays out Hull FC motives as club react to latest new signing
Veteran theatre artist and filmmaker Yashwant Sardeshpande dies of heart attack

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...

Owner:  Purie Family
Van Cleef & Arpels Opens an Exhibition Dedicated to Art Deco in Tokyo

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...

Owner:  Newhouse Family
October 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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....

Owner:  Christopher Jobson
Should we re-moralise art?

Should we re-moralise art?

Would you pay thousands for a portfolio of toddler paintings? A cash-strapped Australian kindergarten recently prompted parental outrage when management proposed raising funds by selling the children’s portfolios of “art” back to their parents for...

Owner:  Paul Marshall
Art and Wine Co-exist in AYA Estate Vineyards Winery

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...

Owner:  Bulgarian National Assembly
Preserve fine arts as a national duty for generations

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...

Owner:  Myanmar Government
Putnam County Visual Arts Exhibition winners announced

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