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October 23, 2021 - 14:14 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A gallery exhibition opening next month in Manhattan provides a seismic surprise for fans and scholars of the Armenian American artist Arshile Gorky (1904-48): An entirely new Gorky painting has been found hidden under a famous painting he did at the very end of his life, during an ...

Among the works of great, exhaustively studied artists who have been dead for more than 70 years, true discoveries tend to be scarce. That is why a gallery exhibition opening next month in Manhattan provides a seismic surprise for fans and scholars of the Armenian American artist Arshile Gorky (1904-48): An entirely new Gorky ...

“When I am Sad” animation directed by Lilit Altunyan has been selected for the official competition program of the world’s third oldest animated film festival CINANIMA Animated Film Festival of Espinho, Portugal, which will take place in early November, the National Cinema Center of Armenia reports. The animated film is an Arm...

Alec Baldwin has expressed his deep “shock and sadness” after he accidentally shot and killed his director of photography with an apparent real bullet on the set of his latest movie, the Guardian reports. The actor was acting in or rehearsing for the western Rust when he discharged what he thought was a prop firearm. The cinem...

The Arshile Gorky Foundation sent a work by the early Abstract Expressionist out for routine conservation, the single work came back as two after conservators discovered a painting hidden behind the later work on paper, ARMENPRESS was informed from Artnet News “This discovery is the sort of moment that drew so many of us to art ...

BBC Music Magazine has published an article by Michael Church about Komitas. The author explores the enduring influence of Komitas, the composer and pioneering folk-collector whose career met a brutal end. The author says that all Armenian musicians perform Komitas’s folk-song arrangements or make their own arrangements of the s...

The Armenia International Music Festival hosted violinist Fumiaki Miura and conductor Conrad van Alphen to perform Alexey Shor's "The Four Seasons of Manhattan" for violin and orchestra and Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" suite with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra told Panorama.am on Friday. In 2009, the Japanes...

Alec Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on the set of a Western he was making in New Mexico on Thursday, killing the film’s director of photography and wounding the movie’s director, The New York Times reported, citing the authorities. The cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, 42, was killed, and the director, Joel Souza, 48, was i...

Legendary British cellist Steven Isserlis will perform with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra at the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex in Yerevan on October 27, the orchestra said. The concert will be held as part of the 5th Armenia International Music Festival. The program features Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memory ...