Art Education Department News

Iranian experts have warned that a project to build an industrial town close to the country's Bisotun would threaten the cultural landscape of the newly inscribed World Heritage List site, local Cultural Heritage News Agency (CHN) reported Wednesday.

The Pushkin Museum wants to revive a gallery of early modern art that was shut down under Stalin. But not everyone is happy about the plan.

Heavy metal singer Chris Barnes didn't know what people would think of Amerika the Brutal, an anti-war song he wrote after his cousin deployed to Iraq in 2003.

The National Museum of Korea greeted its first female director in its 60-year history when Kim Hong-nam, 58, was inaugurated Wednesday at the central museum in Yongsan-gu, Seoul.

Inspired by the applause of the largest audiences ever in local performing arts, Korean troupes have been presenting unique pieces at prestigious global festivals, as a stepping stone to stages in other countries.

The Edinburgh International Book Festival has sold almost 150,000 tickets in advance of its opening this weekend - two-thirds of the total available.

Spencer Tunick, the American artist who stages vast public gatherings of naked people around the world, has received permission from Mexico City to create an installation in September.

Manifesta 6, the latest incarnation of the roving art biennial run by the International Foundation Manifesta (IFM), due to be held in Nicosia, Cyprus, has been cancelled amid accusation and counter-accusation between the curators and one of the local organisations involved in running the event.

Bono may be celebrated for browbeating world leaders into funding debt relief for developing countries, but his Irish rock band is facing criticism for switching its financial affairs overseas to avoid paying higher taxes.

If all goes as planned, and that is no sure bet, an unlikely crew on an improbable craft will amble the Mississippi for the next month, spreading culture and chaos downriver.

Next year French President Jacques Chirac will most likely exit the presidential office for good. He will be remembered, he hopes, more for the cultural legacy he will leave behind in the form of the new $300 million Quai Branly museum than for any political and social after-effect of his twelve years in power. But can a cultural legacy paid for with taxpayers money still be viewed as a gift from President to people?

A tiny village in the Kaluga region has become well-known in Moscow art circles thanks to an unusual group of craftsmen.

Music stars have joined the outcry over city council plans to close the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh.

From the beginning Spike Lee knew that Hurricane Katrina was a story he had to tell. Watching the first television images of floating bodies and of desperate people, mostly black, stranded on rooftops, he quickly realized he was witnessing a major historical moment.

Just a week after Germany returned a Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting to the heirs of its original Jewish owners, the family has put the expressionist artwork up for sale.

A religious icon included on a list of more than 220 items stolen from Russia's State Hermitage Museum has been discovered in a trash bin, according to local police.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has advised an Israeli documentary director not to attend a screening of his work because of a possible backlash due to the Israeli offensive in Lebanon.

The Pompidou Centre in Paris is refusing to take the blame after two art works on loan from the United States were destroyed when they fell from the museum's walls.

Beethoven's own violin has been used in a recording for the first time, according to the Beethoven Foundation.

Artwork that changes to suit a viewer's mood has been created by scientists.