Art / Culture in European Union

  • Contemporary art spruces up downtown Cairo

    EGYPT, 2013/04/27 Dubbed D-Caf, the 'Downtown-contemporaray arts festival' in Cairo is bringing a welcome splash of contemporary art to the city's increasingly dilapidated centre. Running for 19 days, the second edition of D-Caf is a celebration of modern art in amount its forms, inclunding theater, dance, cinema, music and a miss-mash of genres and artists from Europe and the Mediterranean basin.
  • Culture: 'A new wind is blowing in Europe

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2013/01/12 Faced with a continued fall in ticket sales, cultural institutions in Europe should be looking for ways to reach new audiences and for new ways to reach restless existing audiences. “A change of paradigm is occurring,” Ann Branch, a top EU culture official, said during a recent conference on audience development organised by the European Commission.