Books & Arts

– How does artist Hakob Hakobyan start each day off? What do you do? Do you worry about anything? – When I wake up every morning, well, of course, first I go to the bathroom, wash up and have breakfast. Then I go to my studio, make some coffee and start thinking about what I …

A lot has changed in contemporary Armenian music over the past thirty years. There weren’t so many singers back then, each song differed from the other and singers actually knew how to sing. When you compare the music of the 70s with today, you realize that market relations and competition don’t always guarantee quality. The …

Recently, Russian liberal political figure Irina Khakamada organized a book release for her new book called “Sex and Politics”, which is currently on sale. The book is bound to become a best seller and serve as a good political commercial due to the fact that it’s interesting and not too complicated. Khakamada says that she …

Well-known and beloved Russian actors Menshov and Alentova performed the “Tower of Pisa” play for the Armenian audience at the Yerevan Sundukyan theatre. Director of the “Stage Crossroads” center and stage director Hakob Ghazanchyan is currently working on inviting well-known Russian actors to Yerevan. Vladimir Menshov and Vera Alentova are both playing in the “Tower …

Head of Armenian film makers’ union Ruben Gevorgyan has been appointed the “Hayfilm” director. According to share-holder of “Hayfilm” (CS-films) Bagrat Sargsyan, vice-director of “Armenia TV” Ruben Hovhannisyan will be appointed as executive director of “Hayfilm”. Mr. Gevorgyan says that the company will not produce soap operas and commercially profitable movies, but rather will help …

Leonid Yengibarov is the pride and joy of Armenians. By assimilating circus and pantomime he created a completely new stage for genre, brief and philosophical mime performance. Yengibarov was a man and a legend, innovative and talented, who besides his revolutionary circus performance has also left a rich literary legacy. He also had a great …

The Armenian composer went back to his roots and actually got interested in Armenian music very late in his life. Alan never learned Armenian and didn’t communicate with Armenians. Alan Hovhannes’s Scottish mother was against that. Director of the Yerevan Chamber Orchestra Aram Gharabekyan remembers the first time he met Hovhannes. “He looked like he …

Young film director Arak Sevada (Grigoryan) currently lives in the U.S. He has recently made a film, which although may seem a bit strange for the Armenian audience, however, is pretty symbolic for the Armenian film industry. It takes small investments and not one donation to make a short-budget, short-story film. It all depends on …

The world famous hard rock group “System of a Down” won a “Grammy” for “Best Hard Rock Performance”. Other nominees in this category were Audioslave, Nine Inch Nails, Robert Plant and Queens of the Stone Age. System of a Down won the Grammy for their song “B.Y.O.B.” from their “Mesmerize” album..

The project will be based on duets. One member of the newly established duets will be a famous Armenian singer and the other one will be a child. “There are over 1,000 children in orphanages in Armenia, 1,100 children live in insecure families, and there are 8,000 handicapped children who live and study in special …