Culture News

25/03/2020

Rijeka begins year of European Capital of Culture 2020 with opening ceremony

Over 70 events took place across the Rijeka, culminating in a performance of 'Industrial Opera' representing the city's heritage as a port.

23/03/2020

Dubai Creek: Discover a lost Arabian world

Not only is Dubai Creek the emirate’s first major port, but it's also full of historical significance

21/03/2020

WHAT IT’S REALLY LIKE TO STAY AT GREECE’S MOST COVETED HOTEL

I checked in at Blue Palace resort and spa on Crete's northeastern coast for a luxury mini-break.

19/03/2020

’Palace of the Nation’: Qasr Al Watan attracts visitors to Abu Dhabi

One of the UAE’s latest cultural landmarks, Qasr Al Watan, is a place that translates from Arabic to mean, the ‘Palace of the Nation’.

17/03/2020

Archaeologists & filmmakers dig up the past of UAE’s Shamash temple

The lost port city of Ed Dur, once buried in sand, was discovered in the 1970s in the emirate of Umm Al Quwain in the United Arab Emirates.

15/03/2020

Kerala leads the way in responsible tourism in India

Kerala is a narrow sliver of land at the southern tip of India that's blessed with a diverse landscape and mesmerising culture.

13/03/2020

Watch: Euronews reports from Ukraine's cutting-edge art scene

13/03/2020

Forget politics and bureaucracy. Having a stronger cultural indentity will unite the EU

The current mobilisation of right-wing protests against the Establishment, against the bureaucracy of the EU, and against immigration and acceptance of war refugees in Europe, is fed by two interrelated sources: national identity and cultural identity.

13/03/2020

98 bells of Mafra basilica in Portugal chime after years of silence

The 98-bell chimes of the basilica of the Portugal's Palacio Nacional de Mafra rang on Sunday after nearly 20 years of silence.

13/03/2020

Rijeka opens City of Culture celebrations

The city of Rijeka in Croatia on Saturday held its opening ceremony for the start of its year as European Capital of Culture 2020. The port city is the first in the country to be awarded the title, one it shares with Galway in Ireland.

13/03/2020

The Brief: scratching music onto X-rays like bootleggers in Soviet Russia

A couple of music enthusiasts have been reviving a technique for scratching music onto X-rays. It was a method used in the Soviet Union to listen to music like jazz and rock and roll which was banned by the government.

12/03/2020

Belgian artists slam Flemish funding cuts

The right-wing Flemish government intends to cut funds for cultural projects by 60%. Minister-president Jan Jambon at the Flemish Parliament explains that the cuts won’t affect everyone: indeed traditional Flemish cultural heritage will receive more money.

12/03/2020

Greek islands of history and culture

Take century upon century of empires jostling for supremacy at sea and ships sailing into exotic ports fringed by fortresses and temples of stone and set all this against the backdrop of a shimmering blue sea, and you may well start to fall under the eternal spell of the Greek islands.

12/03/2020

How to find your inner Athenian

If the monuments of the bustling Greek capital are instantly recognizable as Athenian—think Parthenon, ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus theater and Panathenaic Stadium—tuning in to the unique rhythms of Athens is a slightly different kind of exercise.

12/03/2020

What are New York City’s best cultural spaces?

From a stunning books palace and a curvaceous art temple – to the city’s transformative high point – the Big Apple has it all, writes Andrew Dickson.

12/03/2020

Weegee: Photos of a seedy underworld

A loner and an outlier, Weegee took photos of people on the margins of New York society. A new reissue of his photobook Naked City reveals the extraordinary power of his images.