Arts & Culture

On the outskirts of the ancient city of Herat, about 4,000 women work to cultivate silk, from raising silkworms, feeding them and harvesting their cocoons to spinning the yarn by hand - a month-long, labour-intensive process.

Deir Mama was famous for silk production before the war, with most residents specialising in one stage or another of the process. Not far from the large Masyaf citadel, the town’s mulberry trees stretched across wide swathes of land, drawing in silk fans from Syria and beyond.

Brad Downey, a Berlin-based American artist who had commissioned the sculpture had hoped the statue would foster a dialogue about the political situation in the United States, highlighting Melania Trump’s status as an immigrant married to a president sworn to reduce immigration.

Quick sketches made by Chandigarh-based artist catch fancy of stars from Kangana Ranawat to Ayushmann Khurrana

Statues of Confederate generals and soldiers, are being taken down, the Confederate emblem is being removed from the Mississippi state flag, but the Volo Auto Museum says the famed “General Lee” isn’t going anywhere.

Unlike other museums thumped by the coronavirus pandemic, Paris’ Rodin Museum might have an ace up its sleeve to help see it through the crisis: It can sell limited-edition versions of the French sculptor’s masterpieces.

According to legend, deities Orihime (Vega) and her lover Hikoboshi (Altair), separated by the Milky Way, are allowed to meet only once a year during this period. People celebrate Tanabata festival by writing wishes on strips of paper and hanging them under bamboo trees.

Despite long-standing demands for the removal of what many consider to be a shrine to racism, the giant depiction of three Confederate heroes on horseback still towers ominously over the Georgia countryside, protected by state law.

The institutions were among the largest recipients of aid to non-profits under the program, with each of them receiving injections in the range of $5 million to $10 million.

Several dozen Paris tour guides wearing masks and holding Mona Lisa portraits protested outside the Louvre museum on Monday for more support from the government to help them ride out the coronavirus crisis and a dearth of tourists.

The 1930s fresco mural by Ann Rice O’Hanlon shows the history of Lexington in a series of scenes, including Black men and women planting tobacco and a Native American man holding a tomahawk.

The convention was set to mark its 34th year in Atlanta. Last year’s event drew its largest crowd with 85,000 participants across four days, organizers told.

Three hundred unmanned drones were programmed to form images conveying motivational messages above the Han river in Seoul for a show held on July 4.

Vivian Westwood and Wolfgang Tillmans are among 100 artists who have contributed art and articles to a new magazine LIMBO created especially to help colleagues who are out of work and to capture the world during lockdown.

A photographer’s professional commitments require stepping outdoors which now pose a serious risk