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Blind Bulgarian artist finds a way to keep painting

28 Jan 2020

Stamen Karamfilov bends low over a canvas, adding the finishing touches to a woodland landscape - no mean feat considering the Bulgarian artist is almost totally blind. He initially...

Philippine artist paints images of volcanic devastation using ash

26 Jan 2020

Ash from a rumbling Philippine volcano has inspired an artist and instructor to paint watercolours using the grey powder that had covered the plants in her backyard. Janina Sanico,...

Artist Kristel Bechara highlights the beauty of diversity

23 Jan 2020

Saleha Irfan, Senior Sub-Editor/Reporter Contemporary artist Kristel Bechara is best known for her dynamic patterns and expressive colours. Her artwork demonstrates the revolutionary creation of photographic imagery with oil,...

Van Gogh's self-portrait, shadowed by doubt for years, is genuine: Experts

21 Jan 2020

Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh has a unique style which carries a global cachet. His most famous works Sunflowers (1887), Cafe Terrace at Night (1888) and The Starry Night (1889)...

Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's artwork stolen in the year 1997 found in Italian museum wall

20 Jan 2020

In October last year, a long-lost painting by the Italian artist Cimabue that was found in the kitchen of an elderly French woman was sold for 24 million euros....

Ghent's refreshed 'Mystic Lamb' artwork inspires new adoration

22 Dec 2019

The grass is greener, the sky is cleaner and dozens of tiny details have been exposed to delight art historians and inspire the devotion of the faithful. The central...

Eritrean artists profit from peace to make their mark on Ethiopia

10 Dec 2019

When Eritrean painter Noah Mulubrhan crossed into Ethiopia last year, he had little desire to stay — and even less of an expectation that the move would be a...

VIDEO: Multi-awarded Filipino pianist performs in UAE

05 Dec 2019

Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter In the run-up to the 48th founding anniversary of the United Arab Emirates and in celebration of the twin commemoration of the UAE’s “National Martyr’s...

Art show seeks the ‘real Moscow’ in grim suburbs

25 Nov 2019

As sleet falls on a cold November day, communist-era apartment blocks dominating Moscow’s suburban skyline look bleak and forbidding. But it’s precisely these sprawling city outskirts that are the...

Togo turns ex-colonial palace into flagship art centre

24 Nov 2019

Togo opened a flagship art centre in the former seat of colonial power after a multi-million dollar refurbishment aimed at making it a major cultural draw in West Africa....

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