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The arts and culture of Germany

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:18:21 +0000

Let’s not talk about about the most beautiful and ancient places of interest located in the country with rich culture - Germany - it is obviously much more interesting to have a look at the sights and famous places than to talk about mechanical press.

Greece celebrate the days of European culture

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:10:59 +0000

Athens celebrate on Saturday and Sunday the days of European cultural heritage of free entrance to museums and exhibitions and events of ancient magical rites.

For visitors from throughout the country free admission to museum exhibitions and archaeological excavations. In addition, the theme of the current cultural days - “Wizards, charms and amulets: Magic in the ancient and the Christian world.”

From the Brussels Museum have been stolen Magritte’ painting

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:10:30 +0000

Thursday, September 24, from the Brussels museum apartment stole Rene Magritte’s painting “Olympia”. Informs AFP referring to the curator of the museum. The cost of painting is estimated at three million euros.

Masterpiece was abducted by two unidentified on a daytime, around 10:00, shortly after the opening of the museum, reports Le Soir. Criminals were not wearing masks, one of whom was an Asian, one spoke French, the other - in English, one had a gun. They broke into the museum and took a picture, not firing a single shot, then fled in a car.

Opening of the International Biennale of Visual Arts will be held in Vladivostok

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:10:07 +0000

Opening of the Sixth International Biennial of Visual Arts, where young writers and masters of culture from Russia, Japan, Vietnam, China, Korea will present their work at the fairgrounds, will be held in Vladivostok on Friday, told RIA Novosti.

“Sixth Vladivostok Biennale of Visual Arts is a creative artists festival of culture. The young authors and masters of culture from Russia, Japan, Vietnam, China will present their work in six spheres: arts (painting, drawing, installation), photography (artistic photography, photomontage, video, photo projects, photo-collage), art (arts and crafts, calligraphy, manga comics, ikebana, tea ceremony), musical and theatrical art, design, web design, art-projects “.

Digitized Masterpieces

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:09:42 +0000

The rare paintings from the store will be possible to see be on the Internet

The desire to draw attention to art and to make visiting of the museum accessible to anyone in Russia, is supporting by high technologies. With the latest techniques of image scanning with no analogues in the world, the leadership of A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (GMII), with the support of JTI and ZAO EPOS Group has decided to digitize stored in the vaults of the museum masterpieces of world art, and thus provide an opportunity for lovers of paintings and drawings read the rare masterpieces, many of whom had not previously exhibited.