Art & Culture

Have you heard of the ‘paintbrush stylus’ yet? Although it has been a year or two since the release of this innovative piece of technology, not many artists are aware of its presence. So...
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Elite Wedding exhibition to be hosted at Oriana spa

Sunday 19 May 2013
Oriana, the most prestigious beauty and spa industry brand in Saudi Arabia, will host the first Elite Wedding exhibition in Jeddah on May 22.
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Rotana film fest to promote Saudi cinema

Sunday 19 May 2013
Rotana movies channel is starting the second Saudi Film Festival from today for eight weeks under the supervision of film directors Mamdouh Salem and Hana Al-Umair, and
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SR-500-banknotes dress wows young designers

Saturday 18 May 2013
Saudi fashion designer Rania Ghamrawi has made a display dress using SR 500 banknotes worth SR 1 million, or about $ 266,000. The dress was wowed by a number of young designers.
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Asghar Farhadi honored for awe-inspiring melodrama

Saturday 18 May 2013
CANNES: Iranian Oscar-winner Asghar Farhadi drew enthusiastic applause yesterday for one of the most keenly awaited films at Cannes, with a Paris-set tale about love and its agonies.
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Murals breathe life into Philadelphia

Friday 17 May 2013
On a scaffold five meters off the ground, artist Meg Saligman uses her paintbrush to carefully touch up an enormous mural covering an entire wall of a Philadelphia parki
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1,000 artworks showcase Madinah as Islamic Cultural Capital 2013

Thursday 16 May 2013
Students in the Department of Art Education at Taibah University displayed their works at an art exhibition, on the sidelines of the university’s participation in the yearlong celebrations of
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French photographer displays vintage work

Thursday 16 May 2013
When Chekhov Minosa, the French photographer, arrived in Najran in 1977 to take photographs of its ruins and locals, he would keep rolls of film in an ice-bag to keep them from being destroyed from
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Blood splatter and mud: All in a day’s work for Vienna costumiers

Thursday 16 May 2013
In a few bright rooms near the Vienna Opera, an army of workers wield needle and thread, transform black felt almost magically into golden armor, and gleefully create blood splatter on fresh white
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Richter painting breaks record for living artist at NY auction

Thursday 16 May 2013
NEW YORK: A 1968 oil painting by German artist Gerhard Richter sold for some $ 37 million at Sotheby’s contemporary art auction on Tuesday, a new record for a work by a living artist.
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Cannes opens with DiCaprio, Spielberg

Thursday 16 May 2013
CANNES, France: The Cannes Film Festival got under way with a blockbuster day of Steven Spielberg and Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby.”
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