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  • Spain: Fernando Del Paso, Winner Of 2015 Cervantes Prize

    SPAIN, 2015/11/16 Fernando del Paso has been awarded the 2015 Miguel de Cervantes Prize for Literature in Spanish. The jury’s decision was announced by Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, the Minister for Education, Culture and Sport during an event held at the headquarters of the Secretariat of National for Culture. According to the minutes of the conference, the jury awarded the prize “for his contribution to the development of the novel, combining tradition and modernity, as Cervantes did in his time. His novels take risks and recreate key episodes in the history of Mexico in a way that highlights their foundational character.”

  • The major, best-preserved ancient Roman funerary complex found in Italy

    ITALY, 2014/02/23 The major, best-preserved ancient Roman funerary complex found in Italy since the 19th century has been discovered at an archeological dig 70 km northeast of Venice, researchers announced Friday. An imposing monument from the third century AD was located outside the ancient walls of what was once the Roman colony of Iulia Concordia, presently in the town of Concordia Sagittaria. The site was likened to a "little, flood-plain Pompeii" in a guided tour at the restoration site in Gruaro, Veneto. Just as Pompeii was buried by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, a natural disaster wiped out and preserved sarcophagi in Iulia Concordia.

  • Belgrade International Week of Architecture

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  • Greece; Art-Athina Fair opens in May

    GREECE, 2013/04/27 Prime launched in 1993 by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association, Art-Athina stands today as one of the longest-lasting contemporary art fairs in Europe and the major annual visual arts event in Greece, attracting 18,000 visitors. A conference point for international artistic creation, Art-Athina brings together significant Greek and foreign art galleries, cultural institutions, curators, collectors, art critics and art lovers. This year's Art Athina is in a far better financial position having received 480,000 euros from the ESPA program of the EU as GreekReporter notes.

  • Guest lecturers, exhibitions and installations

    SERBIA, 2013/04/27 The eighth Belgrade International Architecture Week (BINA) opened at the Belgrade Cultural Centre on Friday with an exhibition dubbed 'RE-Architecture' at the French Institute. Until April 30, the BINA program will encompass exhibitions and lectures by Serbian and international experts. Visitors will have an opportunity to see Elke Krasny's multimedia installation "Le Corbusier's Voyage ReORIENTed 1911-2011", and a video installation titled "New Slovenian Architecture" by Damir Kovacic.

  • Greek-Roman museum to reopen in Alexandria

    ITALY, 2013/04/27 The Greek-Roman Museum of Alexandria will reopen thanks to an $8-million cultural cooperation project between Italy and Egypt, officials made known on Tuesday. Founded in 1892 by Italian archeologist Giuseppe Botti, the museum had Italian directors until 1952, and was shut down in 2005. It will reopen thanks to an agreement between Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Ali Sayed, Stefano Grego, the dean of Universita' della Tuscia based in the city of Viterbo, and Italian Ambassador Maurizio Massari.

  • Exhibits: 'Rations on Board', 5000 years of seafaring fodder

    ITALY, 2013/04/27 Everyone knows that Christopher Columbus discovered America; but not a lot of know that the great discover was fond of honey and blancmange, a sour soup made from white ingredients that was popular in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This and a raft of other curiosities are currently cruising around Italy as part of Captain Alexander Pine's ''Rations On Board'' exhibition. ''The show is two pronged: a historical research of rations on board ships, from the Sumerians to the present day, and a study of the menus on Royal Navy ships between 1891 and the forties'', explained Pines. Despite the hefty time span certain culinary threads have defined the seafaring diet through the ages.

  • Classics, novelties and mainstream features from May 9-15

    ITALY, 2013/04/27 The 6th Spanish Film Festival taking place at Rome's Cinema Farnese from May 9-15 will feature a slew of Spanish and Latin American classics and novelties. Prime on the screens will be Pablo Berger's Snow White, winner of 10 Goyas, or Spanish Oscars. Actress Macarena Garcia, winner of the Best Emerging Actress Goya, will be on hand to represent the film.

  • Edouard Manet's Italian soul on show in Venice

    ITALY, 2013/04/27 While 19th-century French realist Edouard Manet's love for Spanish art is well documented, curators in Venice have decided to turn the spotlight towards Italy and focus on the heavy influence of the Italian Renaissance on his work. An exhibit at the city's monumental Doge's Palace from April 24 to August 18 takes a surprising approach to the artist who is credited with bridging the gap between Realism and Impressionism in the mid-to-late 1800s

  • Genius Dali on show at Reina Sofia Museum

    SPAIN, 2013/04/27 The essence of a unique artist, Salvator Dali, will be showcased in a great retrospective - 'Dali. Amount the poetic suggestions and sculptural possibilities' - opening Friday at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. Some 200 pieces will be on display in what has been dubbed as the cultural event of the year in Spain. The retrospective was a major success in Paris, where 800,000 people visited the Centre Pompidou during the four-month-long show.
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