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Baku beats to the rhythm of world jazz
The heart of Baku has been beating to the rhythm of its annual jazz festival. This edition featured more than 60 events spread out over a dozen venues across the Azeri capital, as well as guests from all over the world. Among them was...
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Australian sculpture show draws global artists to the beach
Sculpture by the Sea along the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk near Sydney is the largest open-air sculpture show in the world. A visit to an outdoor sculpture park in Northern Bohemia twenty years ago inspired exhibition founder David...
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Long live art and culture the keys to human experience
How can art and culture play a leading role in an epoch obsessed with itself and the pursuit of instant gratification, narcissism and financial crisis? Those are the central questions at the World Summit on Arts and Culture in the...
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Robbie Williams “parties like a Russian”
Robbie Williams is back. And his latest, provocative single and music video have drawn anger from Russia. ‘Party Like a Russian’, the first single from his upcoming album, features a sample from Prokofiev’s ‘Dance Of The Knights’ with...
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Photo Docks Art Fair in Lyon
Art meets business at the Photo Docks Art Fair in the French city of Lyon. Some fifteen international galleries are taking part in the exhibit where artists, collectors and photography enthusiasts can meet over the coming weeks to...
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The creme of electro dance music gathers in Greece
Born in 2005, the Reworks festival in the Greek city of Thessaloniki has grown into one of Europe’s best-known platforms for acclaimed and emerging electronic music artists alike. Extended from the usual three days to five, this 12th...
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Who killed Toronto's music venues?
Artists have been struggling to find affordable places to perform in Toronto, in part because of the explosive real estate market. Now many say they are being pushed out of the city altogether
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Art from behind the Berlin wall
An exhibition currently on show in Berlin takes us back to the time of the Berlin Wall. Under constant state surveillance and censorship, resistance took on many forms. Voices of Dissent: Art in the GDR 1976-1989 showcases the varied and...
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Contemporary art Biennale kicks off in Berlin
It’s a highly innovative art Biennale that has just opened in Berlin, even by artistic standards. Besides the traditional Kunst-Werke Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, responsible for organising the biennial since it started in...
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Twisting and turning into the future – Tate Modern extension unveiled
A towering extension has opened at the Tate Modern museum in London. The newly-opened Switch House building, which cost 260 million pounds (around 330 million euros), is a ten-storey twisted pyramid structure that sits next to the Tate...
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The Politically Charged 60th Annual Grammy Awards
Brande Victorian, Managing Editor of MadameNoire, discusses the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. R&B star Bruno Mars took home six awards including Album of the Year, upsetting frontrunners Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z.
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A panoramic view of European photography
This year PhotoEspaña Spain’s international festival of photography and visual arts, features 300 photographers from approximately 30 countries. One aim is to provide a panoramic view of photography on the European continent, as seen in...
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Capturing wildlife on Art Safari
A group of safari artists have the privilege to create a still life of the fastest land animal, the cheetah, at the Na an Kuse Game Reserve, Namibia. Easel in rucksack the artists have travelled long distances to explore and draw some of...
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New museum opens in Brussels’ Molenbeek district
A new museum has opened in the Molenbeek district of Brussels, which, it’s hoped, will help shed the negative image of the area most recently linked to the deadly attacks there and in Paris. The Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art or...
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Oldest art fair Art Cologne marks 50th anniversary
The 50th anniversary edition of Art Cologne was a special one, bringing together more than 200 galleries from 24 countries. Considering each gallery presents an average of 10 artists, that’s a total of more than 2,000 different artists...
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Music industry reacting to anti-LGBT laws
Nashville artists are joining those denouncing proposed new laws that discriminate against the LGBT community, but so far Music Row record labels have remained silent.
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Art Basel Hong Kong 2016
The Art Basel Hong Kong fair has opened its doors to the public – 239 galleries from 35 countries are looking for art buyers. The fair, which is in its 4th edition, showcases premier works from across the globe. It will not only see the...
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Berlin show highlights artists’ holiday pictures in “We’re off then”
Travel pictures immortalised by artists are special, and an exhibition in Berlin, Germany celebrates that in an era when phone images have replaced the camera or paintbrush. For centuries, we have been inspired by foreign lands and...
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Graffiti art comes to life at night in Jerusalem market
Near-daily unrest is keeping clientele away from Jerusalem’s normally bustling main market, Mahana Yehuda, causing a steep decline in sales at its bars, shops and restaurants. But as the market shuts down at night, new faces appear. A...
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Juno Awards to honour Burton Cummings
The rock music legend will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in recognition of his 40-year solo career
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Lyon Opera shines light on Syria
Syria was at the heart of a recent series of concerts at the Opera in the French city of Lyon under the theme The Syria I love. Among the artists invited were Syrian singer, ud player and composer Waed Bouhassoun and Moslem Rahal,...
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The ‘Not New Now’ art biennial in Marrakech
‘Not New Now’ is the theme of the art biennial in Marrakesh. Curator, Palestinian Reem Fadda, has taken the event back to its North African origins. The works are mainly from artists from the Arab World, the Mediterranean and Sub-Saharan...