Books & Arts

It has already been more than a year since actor Vigen Stepanyan has returned to Armenia from Beirut. Currently, he is the director of the “Metro” theatre. According to V. Stepanyan, there is a lot of indifference towards culture nowadays and that indifference is spreading towards artists. “Everyone should learn their lesson after what happened …

Yesterday, on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of the declaration of independence of the Republic of Armenia, President Robert Kocharyan granted singer Hasmik Papyan the title of popular artist. Kocharyan himself admitted the fact that the state recognition was a little late.

The documentary by Harutyun Khachaturyan entitled “The Documental director” has not been shown to the public. H. Khachaturyan has premiered the film at many festivals and competitions and has even been awarded the Armenian state prize. Harutyun Khachaturyan has been recognized as the “Best director” during the “Arsenal” film festival in Riga. The documentary reminisces …

Recently, painter Arevik Arevshatyan presented her variations portraying the life of a woman. The project was presented in the “Academy” exhibition hall. Some variations including “Stories about women, “Nothing”, “Magnetism” all portray images of flowers. The tender and transient beauty of the flower is shown next to the woman in each painting. The woman herself …

One of the contemporary artists of our time Erna Yuzbashyan, who currently lives in the U.S., has come to Yerevan to record a new album and film some clips. The new album will be titled “Anthology of Armenian contemporary song” and will be composed of the works by famous Armenian composers such as Constantine Orbelyan, …

The famous film director was born in 1952 in Moscow. He was the son of famous Community Party figure Georgi Shahnazarov. Karen has started filming when he was still a student. His popular films include “We come from jazz”, “The city of zero”, “Murder of the King”, “Winter Nights in Gagra” and others. This year, …

According to former Vice Minister of Culture Karen Aristakesyan, in the case of passing the proposed law entitled “About the import and export of cultural values” Armenia will become a transitional country. It will be easy to import and export different cultural values. Besides that, there will be more cases of theft and it will …

Recently the second edition of the “a” aesthetic magazine has been published and strikes one’s attention with its exclusive cover, splendid style and contents. This magazine is enough for you to feel not only like a decent resident of the city, but also a decent citizen. If the “a” magazine gets published a couple of …

“You can love death because that is natural. Death can be funny, but marriage is sad. Just like everything in our lives,” said Paskal, Jan-Pier and Zhyuzil- the attractive and mincing actors of the French “Kokuet” street theatre. Their funeral drama took place on Abovyan street for two days. Nobody goes to a street theatre …

Film director Ruben Kochar thinks that there is no type of benevolence mechanism in cinematography, but there are people who understand the concept of a film, have the experience and see big business in the film industry. Unfortunately, those kinds of people do not exist in Armenia. They are foreigners who are in the American …