Books & Arts

The “HyeFilm” studio has already started carrying out activities after privatization. Let’s recall that during the privatization contest, which took place in August, “ARMENIA TV studios” joint-stock company became owner of “HyeFilm” on behalf of the Cafesjian fund. The film studio has been named “CS Films”. Director of “HyeFilm” Gevorg Gevorgyan explained this by the …

French photographer Yan Artus-Bertran is a very strict and self-reserved person; a real professional. However, when you look at the images that he has created, you start to get emotional and start going deep into your thoughts. He went to Kenya 30 years ago to visit his wife who had been studying the lives of …

The founder-director of the company Nina Hovnanyan-Aleksanyan signs commercial contracts with Armenian craftsmen and “talented” masters and organizes an exhibition and sale of their pieces in the exhibition hall at Abovyan 1 address. The decorated leather handbags, shoes, jewelry, toys, lamps and dolls stand out with their high quality and taste. They are exhibited and …

“The reasons were both subjective and objective. I didn’t want to organize just a formal premiere because everybody knows that the Armenian audience is very strict”, said the author of the film. It was very difficult to film this film-opera, plus it had a very small budget. However, this specific type of art, which includes …

Painter Minas Avetisyan has created enlightened and deep images; lived an honest and hard life. The people, who were next to him, clearly knew how valuable his paintings were and how much their value would amount to years later. Each of his paintings is unforgettable, colorful and bright. Minas could easily present his paintings. And …

The destructive earthquake of 1988 ruined the house-museum of Minas Avetisyan in Jajur in its entirety. Being sponsored by the “Linsie” fund Minas’s house-museum has been restored. The re-inauguration of the museum will take place on December 7 at 3:00p.m. It will be inaugurated on the same day it has been ruined. There was a …

December 1-8 is going to be a week dedicated to European films in Gyumri. The entrance ticket price will be 500 drams in Yerevan, and it will be free in Gyumri. The money collected from ticket sales will be given to Armenian orphanages. Some films that were shown during the “Golden apricot” film festival will …

On November 28, the official opening ceremony of the office of Armenia’s honorable consul Harshad Mehta took place in Mumbai where Ambassador to Armenia in India Ashot Kocharyan, chief secretary of the government of the state of Maharashtra Premkumar, Mrs. Nani Oskanyan and honorable consul Harshad Mehtan made speeches. Nani Oskanyan handed Mehta a special …

Levon Minasyan is Armenian but lives in France. He says: “I have been traveling in the world very long and taking lessons from Duduk players. This is how I learned how to play the duduk”. Though Levon Minasyan plays also mandolin and piano, but he says that his favorite instrument is Duduk. Three years ago …

The literal environment of Yerevan would be very boring without Chilo. He was both an interpreter and a writer, but his friends say he liked to be an interpreter more. The appearance of Chilo was very specific and we can’t say these kinds of things about him. “This is a case when poesy is a …