The final of the beat competition organized by the Delegation of the European Union to Haiti was held in the gardens of the Reserve in Pétion Ville on Dec. 13, 2023. Out of the 48 participants, Belensky Joseph St. Juste, a Port-au-Prince native, won first prize for revisiting Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Ode to Joy with
The first inaugural Laos-Europe Itinerant Performing Art Festival was organised on December 8-10, 2023 in Vientiane. The festival supported by the European Union in Laos, jointly organised by the European Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Lao PDR, FMK International Dance Festival, the event aimed to foster collaboration between visiting European artists and local
At the top of the sale with a result of $275,000 was “St John the Baptist,” half length by Guercino, circa 1640s-50s, pen and brown ink on laid paper, 9-7/8 by 8¼ inches. Review by Caitlyn “Cat” Snell; Photos Courtesy Heritage Auctions DALLAS — Heritage Auction’s December 7 Fine European Arts Auction saw success with
The 1920s and ’30s saw the emergence of a series of seminal new European art movements, including Art Deco, Cubism and Surrealism, among others. Culture Trip takes a look at some of the most important artworks from these two defining eras. Did you know you can now travel with Culture Trip? Book now and join
Artists from different European countries will present their works at Oborishte 5 Gallery in Sofia on December 19. The exhibition will be put together in cooperation with the German gallery AK Galerie Berlin, the organizers said here on Wednesday. German art gallerist Anna Kimmerly and Sofia Gallery Art Director Denitsa Gergova will open the exhibition,
Over at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, another major exhibition opened last month with 50 works by Italian masters including Titian, Giorgione, Tintoretto and Veronese, on loan from the Uffizi Galleries in Florence. The show, “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Titian and the Venetian Renaissance from the Uffizi”, began on November 3 and
Example predictions of smell-related objects from the object detection models developed by the Odeuropa project computer vision team. Image credits: J.P. Filedt Kok, 2007, ‘Floris Claesz. van Dijck, Still Life with Cheeses, c. 1615′, in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8296 (accessed 23 October
The ephemeral nature of graffiti and mural work is always in some state of jeopardy. The medium itself embodies a transience that of course is understood and expected by those involved in its creation. But more often than not, we expect a Banksy to persevere more or less indefinitely. With the recent destruction of an
As a tribute to the power of the arts as voice and precursor of the trends of the world we live in, the Museo de las Artes (MUSA) and EU Guest of Honour at FIL have conceived a European multidisciplinary exhibition showcasing different dimensions of contemporary creation in Europe. Home Beyond the Dawn, Ukraine Mirroring
He is the man who sold the world’s most expensive work of art, a face familiar to the millions who watch livestream auctions on their computers and phones. In November 2017, Jussi Pylkkänen, the global president of Christie’s, was on the rostrum in New York to sell Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi.” The ninth lot