French celebrity Alain Delon to auction his private art collection

07.04.2023 [11:38]
Valued at €4-to-5 million and including works by Delacroix, Raoul Dufy and Veronese, the reputed art collection of iconic French actor Alain Delon will be sold at auction in June, according to Forbes. The 87-year-old actor had already sold a large part of his impressive collection in 2007 when he said that ...

9th meeting of UNESCO National Commissions of TURKSOY member states gets underway in Baku VIDEO

07.04.2023 [10:53]
The 9th meeting of the National Commissions for UNESCO of the TURKSOY Member States co-organized by Azerbaijan’s National Commission for UNESCO under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the International Organization of Turkic Culture (TURKSOY), ADA University and the Institute for Development and Diplomacy (IDD) of the University ...

Azerbaijan, Venezuela discuss prospects for tourism cooperation

06.04.2023 [19:44]
Chairman of the Management Board of the Association of Azerbaijan Tourism Agencies (ATAA) Goydeniz Kahramanov met with Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to Azerbaijan Christopher Alberto Martinez Berroteran, as well as representatives of the Ministry of Tourism of Venezuela and a number of tourism companies ...

Shanghai International Film Festival to return live in June this year

06.04.2023 [16:04]
The 25th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) will be unveiled on June 9. The Golden Goblet Awards Ceremony will take place at the Shanghai Grand Theater on the evening of June 17, while the city-wide screening events will go on till June 18, according to ...

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at the 76th Festival de Cannes

05.04.2023 [15:09]
Indiana Jones returns to the Festival de Cannes for the world premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, directed by James Mangold, starring Harrison Ford as the legendary hero, according to Festival de Cannes ...

‘Azerbaijan targets 4 million foreign and 6 million local tourists per year by 2026’

04.04.2023 [19:32]
“We are targeting to increase the number of foreign tourists up to 4 million, whereas the number of local tourists to 6 million per year by 2026, said Chairman of Azerbaijan’s State Tourism Agency Fuad Naghiyev at the opening ceremony of the 19th Azerbaijan International Tourism and Travel Exhibition - AITF 2023 held today at Baku Expo Center ...

19th AITF 2023 tourism exhibition opens in Baku VIDEO

04.04.2023 [14:24]
The opening ceremony of the 19th Azerbaijan International Tourism and Travel Exhibition - AITF 2023 has been held today at Baku Expo Center. At the opening ceremony, General Director of Caspian Event Organizers (CEO) Farid Mammadov made an ...

Books about Shusha - cultural capital of Azerbaijan, published in seven countries, in different languages

03.04.2023 [20:19]
Books about Shusha, the cultural capital of Azerbaijan, the pearl of Karabakh, which is also called “Art Temple of the Caucasus” and “Cradle of Azerbaijani Music” have already been published in seven foreign countries and in various languages - Italian, Greek, Arabic (in Jordan), Bulgarian, Latvian, Tajik and French ...

Uruguayan news agency highlights Azerbaijan`s tourism destinations

03.04.2023 [12:41]
The Uruguayan news agency Uypress has published an article highlighting Azerbaijan's tourism destinations. The article, headlined "Azerbaijan is a country waiting to be discovered," drew the readers` attention to the nature, cuisine, culture, national traditions and modern buildings of Azerbaijan ...

UNESCO to celebrate 35th anniversary of Silk Roads Programme

01.04.2023 [10:46]
The 35th Anniversary of the UNESCO Silk Roads Programme will be celebrated with a daylong series of events at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 6 April 2023, from 9:30 am to 8 pm (Paris time), Room II, according to the official website of the Organization ...

“Tripadvisor" includes Baku in world`s trending destinations list

31.03.2023 [18:39]
The well-known travel platform "Tripadvisor” has included the city of Baku in the list of the world`s trending destinations. Thus, the cities from 25 different countries of the world are mentioned in the World trending ...

The Eggstraordinary Mystery of proteins in Renaissance Paintings

31.03.2023 [17:33]
An interdisciplinary team of researchers propose that Italian Renaissance masters – artists such as Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci – added protein to their oil paintings to prevent wrinkling and issues with humidity, according to TechnologyNetworks. The study is published in Nature Communications ...

Turkish artist turns organic materials into works of art

30.03.2023 [11:45]
A Turkish artist is using environmentally friendly organic materials in her artwork, including kombucha scobies, animal hair, bones, dough, vegetables and fruit, according to Anadolu Agency. Nergiz Yesil graduated from the Sculpture Department at Mimar ...

Grammy Award winner to give concert in Baku

28.03.2023 [12:51]
The Grammy Award winner, notable pianist Mikhail Pletnev will perform in Baku, at the Heydar Aliyev Center on May 16. The Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra named after Uzeyir Hajibeyli, to be conducted by Honoured Artist of Azerbaijan Fuad Ibrahimov ...

Russian pianist Evgeny Grinko performs in northwestern Türkiye

27.03.2023 [20:54]
World-famous Russian musician, pianist and drummer Evgeny Grinko performed in Türkiye’s northwestern Kocaeli province on Sunday, according to Anadolu Agency. Grinko played the guitar and drums during the concert held at Kocaeli Congress Center, which lasted ...

Azerbaijan National Museum of Art to host exhibition on historical and cultural heritage of China

27.03.2023 [19:49]
Azerbaijan National Museum of Art will host an exhibition entitled “Chinese Art from the collection of the Azerbaijan National Museum of Art” Wednesday, co-organized by the Museum, Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Culture and Chinese Embassy in the country ...

On World Theatre Day, ICESCO calls for pooling efforts to strengthen presence of “father of the arts”

27.03.2023 [19:03]
As the world celebrates the World Theatre Day, an occasion to shed light on this ancient art (father of the arts) in all its forms, given its abundant sources of inspiration and ability to promote constructive intercultural and inter-civilizational dialogue between the nations of ...

Egypt discovers 2,000 mummified ram heads in ancient temple

27.03.2023 [13:39]
In a statement, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said the massive collection of mummified heads were found in Ramses II Temple in the ancient city of Abydos in southern Egypt, according to Anadolu Agency ...

“Goodbye Schmidt!” movie by Azerbaijani director featured in Saint Petersburg

27.03.2023 [13:02]
“Goodbye Schmidt!”, an Azerbaijani movie dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the resettlement of ethnic Germans in Azerbaijan, was screened at the Central City Library named after V. V. Mayakovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The movie was made in the genre of tragicomedy at Mozalan studio by order of the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan ...