Art & Culture
Saturday, 27 October 2012
FOR hundreds of years they have gazed inscrutably upon the most remote island in the world, standing with their backs to the Pacific Ocean as if defying attempts to understand their enigma.But the mystery of how the giant stone statues of Easter...
LAUGHTER was a serious matter at a clown convention in the Mexican capital, where hundreds of the performers gathered this week to discover some of the secrets of making people laugh. The most important lesson at the four-day event was the...
Thursday, 25 October 2012
THEY might wear the humble white sheets required for Islam's Haj pilgrimage, but for many visitors thronging Mekah's streets, the perfect souvenir of their trip is that most glittering of commodities: gold.For most pilgrims, Haj represents the...
IT TOOK two millennia for the country to develop the flat coins and banknotes used in Thailand today. What came before were monetary systems unlike anything used in other countries.Now Thais can better appreciate the history of the money in use here...
Saturday, 20 October 2012
AFTER decades of waiting, Hachi will finally be reunited with his master.A bronze statue of Hachi, the Akita dog immortalised as "faithful dog Hachiko", and his master Hidesaburo Ueno will be unveilled at a park in Tsu on Saturday, October...
IN HOLLYWOOD movies, heists usually feature criminals whose meticulous planning and high-tech equipment are used to avoid detection. But thieves who snatched seven paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Monet worth millions from a gallery in Rotterdam...
YU KUIZHI (pic), one of China's most famous Peking Opera actors and a household name in the country, celebrates the 40th anniversary of his initiation into the genre this year.However, unlike most colleagues in similar situations and contrary to the...
Thursday, 18 October 2012
SEVEN masterpieces, including paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and Gauguin, were stolen from a Dutch museum in a pre-dawn heist Tuesday, police said, with an expert adding the haul could be worth up to 200 million euros (around $320 million)....
IN A globalised art market, what better place for a gallery than an airport? Thus reasoned US art mogul Larry Gagosian, who this week opens a cavernous new art space right inside Paris's main private air hub.Designed by star French architect Jean...
Saturday, 13 October 2012
WRITER Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy, which gives out the annual prizes, described Mo's works as "hallucinatory realism" merging "folk tales, history and the contemporary"."...
FRENCH photographer JR, who specialises in giant installations in public places, celebrated the US civil rights movement Thursday with his first installation in Washington.He took over an unused building a block off U Street in the US capital to...
Thursday, 11 October 2012
ROY Lichtenstein, the American painter whose comic book-inspired canvases gave the Pop Art movement some of its most vivid images, is getting his first major retrospective since his death 15 years ago.Beginning Sunday, the National Gallery of Art in...
TOURISTS emerge by the hundreds from a towering, 16-deck megaship docked at the Caribbean's newest cruise port. They squint in the glare of the Jamaican sun, peer curiously at a gaggle of locals beyond a wrought-iron fence and then roar out of town...
Saturday, 6 October 2012
WALKING or running in a full suit of samurai armour is not the easiest thing in the world. Swimming in it is even harder, but that's exactly what some in Japan are doing. For fun."It's heavy, and it's hot in here... Fan me hard," Mutsuo...
PABLO Picasso may be best known for his Blue and Rose Periods and Cubism but the Spanish artist also used black and white in his works, many of which will be shown in a new exhibition opening on Friday at New York's Guggenheim Museum. "Picasso...
Thursday, 4 October 2012
ALFONSO Reyes looked a bit nervous as he blew the first notes on his trumpet for the audition."Don't worry, be calm, relax," trumpet teacher Federico Torres told Reyes after he got the beat wrong. "Softly now. One, two, three, four...
A CLUB roughly hewn from a freshly chopped cherry branch, a tennis ball and a buddy to play with is all it takes to make golf an extreme sport that would test the skills of even top professional players.Over the last decade, a group of Czech "...
Saturday, 29 September 2012
THE AK-47, arguably the world's deadliest weapon, gets an extreme makeover in a new art project in London where rifles are ground into metal dust, be-decked with dazzling rhinestones or covered in silver-tinted thorns."AKA Peace" is the...
A SYMPHONY of colours plays on the burnt-out walls of an improvised gallery in the eastern city of Benghazi, where Libyan artists display an abstract mood in the wake of revolution and war.Sculptures forged out of bullet casings and metal springs...
Saturday, 22 September 2012
MANY have heard that dried leaves from rubber trees can be turned into handicrafts like 'decorative flowers', which can be used as souvenirs or even, wedding gifts.But not many are aware that processed leaves of the banyan tree (also known as ficus...
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