Books & Arts

Our minister is simply the best

03.11.2005

On October 27-28 during the EU ministers’ conference within the framework of “Inter-cultural dialogue” program, our culture minister Hovik Hoveyan made a speech too. Hovik Hoveyan tried to assure the participants that inter-cultural dialogues must be based on common principles of human rights. He means independence of religion, cultural wealth, the rights of minorities, gender …

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Pictures that you want to touch

03.11.2005

People who deal with flowers are painters already. And when painters use flowers in their paintings, they create unique masterpieces of art. Alvina Barkhudaryan is an architect by profession. She paints pictures with the help of dried flower leaves. She covers graphical paintings with dried flower leaves in different colors. Each flower leaf is like …

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The 20th century “Man Hunter” through the eyes of Armin Wagner

31.10.2005

He has not only been a witness of the horrific events in Turkey, but he has also left Turkey with some photographs taken by him and his German spies. The world found out about the Armenian Genocide thanks to Wagner’s photos and letters. Wagner was exiled from Turkey, being accused of “state betrayal”. Wagner has …

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The tragic death of Vova

27.10.2005

From now on, “168 hours” will include old and new pictures and stories of events in the upcoming editions. This time we will write about the pictures of Vova (elephant), which were taken by the chief-editor of Photolur agency Halbert Baghdasaryan in 1970. We welcome your suggestions too. A sensational incident happened in Yerevan in …

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In favour of Media

26.10.2005

Every year the international independent jury gives ten different prizes to the photographers of pictures published in media. They also take into consideration news-photos. It is the second time already that “World Press Photo” organizes exhibitions of its best photos of the year. Yesterday they organized an exhibition of the best and most impressive photos …

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Ancient and Modern Italy

26.10.2005

What’s born in Italy soon becomes classical and leaves its trace for others to come. The Armenian-Italian days in Armenia have begun. There are many Italian programs and they are all profound. The events are sponsored by the patronage of both presidents of Armenia and Italy and present the richness of all fields of art. …

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Where there is no mountain, there is no drum. Where there is no drum, there is no jazz.

23.10.2005

Levon Malkhasyan is a person like the music he plays: emotional, clean and honest. He doesn’t plan anything, because the improvisation of jazz doesn’t let him plan anything in his life. He will found a jazz club (called as “Malkhas”) in Yerevan in December. – Jazz is not logarithm in order to have rules. Jazz …

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They were promised a territory

19.10.2005

The musicians, practicing in the sport-concert complex named after ”Karen Demirchyan” worry. There was a period when the state jazz band wasn’t given a chance to practice. ”The new owner of the complex prommised to give us a territory”,-said the saxophonist of the group Armen Hiusnunts. The jazz band doesn’t want to make a big …

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Documentary exhibition

19.10.2005

In light of the Days of Italy in Armenia an exhibition was open, where the photos of Canadian Armenian photographer Hrayr Baze are shown. The exhibition opening took place on the ground floor of the municipal council administration building. The photos of Hrant Baze were taken in the Armenian district in Venice. There were photos …

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New jazz-club

19.10.2005

Well-known jazzman Levon Malkhasyan is going to found a new jazz club in Yerevan. He doesn’t want to speak about this, because this will not be soon (at the end of December). ”There are a lot of small, medium and big clubs in Yerevan. I am very happy for that”,-he said. It is clear that …

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