May 15, 2013 - Fast car, fast art...
TALLINN - The Goethe Institute, in cooperation with the BMW Group and Kumu Art Museum, is bringing four works of art from the extraordinary BMW Art Car Collection to Estonia. Since April, within the framework of the German Spring culture month, cars designed by four of the world’s top artists have been on display in the Kumu courtyard and foyer.
The cars from the collection that will ...
Apr 25, 2013 - Bad Boys of Dance are back...
TALLINN - After touring the world for five years, the “Bad Boys of Dance” will be coming to the Baltic States this May! Rasta Thomas’ “Rock the Ballet” is the dynamic, high energy dance show set to awesome music against a backdrop of fascinating video projected scenery. The show is created by husband and wife team Rasta Thomas - director, and Adrienne Canterna - ch...
Apr 25, 2013 - 5 million euro Rothko Art Center opens in Daugavp...
DAUGAVPILS - A multi-million euro arts center opened this week in Latvia’s second largest city in a bid to boost tourism in the region. The 5.7 million euro Mark Rothko Art Center opened in Daugavpils on April 24 after a year-and-a-half of construction work. The state-of-the-art building pays homage to Daugavpils’ born artist Mark Rothko, who is regarded as the father of abstract ex...
Apr 17, 2013 - An explosion of world jazz superstars at the Kauna...
KAUNAS - The internationally acknowledged Lithuanian jazz festival Kaunas Jazz is getting ready for a majestic beginning of spring. The festival has been held every year since 1991 and now has become the biggest and the most popular jazz music festival in Lithuania. From April 25 - 29, the festival-goers will have an exclusive opportunity to hear the best jazz performers of today, or in other w...
Apr 17, 2013 - Patricia Kaas brings French charm to the Baltics...
RIGA - “Kaas Chante Piaf,” meaning “Kaas Sings Piaf” is Patricia Kaas’ new project, focusing on 21 of the great Edith Piaf’s iconic titles.
The show’s arrangement will be provided by one of the foremost rising talents in the film music scene today. Golden Globe nominee composer Abel Korzeniowski has genuinely impressed the Hollywood community with his...
Apr 03, 2013 - The Silver Age comes to Vilnius...
VILNIUS - The stormy period of Russian cultural life started at the end of the 19th century. It became part of cultural history under the name of Silver Age and is considered to be the renaissance of Russian spiritual culture. The beginning of the period is connected with the activity of the union “World of Art” when young artists of St. Petersburg and Moscow claimed to contradict t...
Apr 03, 2013 - Jazz music knows no limits...
TALLINN - Spring and Jazzkaar are inseparable. Tallinn International Festival Jazzkaar is the biggest Jazz Festival in the Baltics, held from 1990. In 2014 the Festival celebrates its 25th birthday. Combining an interesting and unique program with bold solution, Jazzkaar’s team is able to create the best festival with the smallest budget in the Nordic countries, bringing the biggest and m...
Mar 20, 2013 - Greece: Living and demonstrating as way of life...
ATHENS - I believe today’s global media depicts Athens, and Greece as a whole, not in the most flattering way, especially in the light of recent events in the euro zone. We see Athens burning in violent protests, we see Greeks going on strike against austerity measures, and we see Greek politicians pleading for new bailouts from its creditors. The only thing that is probably missing behin...