President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan is redefining the Great Game as an opportunistic obstacle course, testing his own survival skills to future-proof his country against joining Ukraine as a victim of Russia’s irredentist urges. As leader of the biggest and richest of the independent states in Russia’s Central Asian orbit, Tokayev has elevated pragmatic neutrality
Courtesy of Midtown Houston In our Must Do Things Around Greater Houston series, we take a look at Houston’s vast array of communities, neighborhoods and destinations to bring you five fun, tasty, surprising and enticing reasons you should give each one a visit. While you may think of Midtown as a place where rowdy young
On 5 November, a Russian missile and drone strike against Odesa, the historic Unesco-listed port city on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, rocked the Odesa National Fine Arts Museum as it was preparing to mark its 124th birthday. The museum said in a statement that all events scheduled for the anniversary were cancelled and the “consequences
DANCE Il-Ħajja Concept of Movement, the dance act that became well known locally after their successful participation in Malta’s Got Talent 2020, is presenting their first original show at the Valletta Campus Theatre VCT (ex-MITP), Merchants Street, Valletta, on November 11 and 12. The one-hour performance, produced in collaboration with singer-songwriter Claire Tonna and poet
Frederick Carl Frieseke’s elegant “Lady Trying on a Hat,” a masterpiece of American Impressionism, led the day, selling for $450,000, well above its predicted high of $350,000. The work carried provenance extending all the way back to the artist. In 1906, Frieseke spent the summer in Giverny and the influence of French Impressionism is apparent
Bucharest exhibitions: Roman Franc’s Collectives to open at Romanian Peasant Museum The photography exhibition Collectives of Czech artist Roman Franc will open at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant on November 16. The exhibition covers a selection of group photos taken by Franc in various countries and cultures starting in 2015, including portraits of the communities
Amaza Lee Meredith’s Azurest South, her self-designed home for herself and her lover, reveals an avant garde representative of the Black American middle class Azurest South, Petersburg, Virginia, 1939, designed by Amaza Lee Meredith. Credit: Virginia Department of Historic Resources ‘As a designed object, the building was neither monumental nor exquisitely beautiful, but it had
This year has been a good one for Vilnius. The Lithuanian capital celebrated its 700th birthday on 25 January 2023, and a few months later it was named the European Union’s green capital for 2025. Perhaps most symbolically – as Lithuania continues to firmly reject its Soviet past and align itself closer with the west
PARIS, Nov. 7, 2023 /CNW/ — Artprice by Artmarket reaps the fruit of two years of development which enabled the complete overhaul of its online databases, leading to a 75% increase in its turnover for the third quarter of 2023 thierry Ehrmann, Founder of Artprice and CEO of Artmarket: “In January 2023, Artprice by Artmarket deployed its new
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday he doesn’t believe it is the right time for elections as debate intensifies on holding a vote in 2024 while the country fights against Russia’s invasion. Issued on: 07/11/2023 – 01:07 2 min All elections including the presidential vote set to take place next spring are technically cancelled under