On March 31 in Cafesjian Center for the Arts was opened an interactive educational center with a rich and original library. The library includes the personal collection of Gerard Cafesjian and the books donated to the Arts Center. For those people who are interested in art, especially contemporary culture and who today can’t find literature …
URBATAGIRK Venice, Hakob Meghapart’s ptinting. 1512 Title page – “anun grots e surburbatagirq”. It is the first Armenian printed book, that is done by the founder of Armenian printing HakobMeghapart. It consists of 124 pages. The print is done with black and red colors by the type «boloragir», which is similar with the typeface in …
Joseph Orbely was born in March 8, 1887 in Kutaisi. A year later, his family moved to Tbilisi, where in a multinational environment of Armenians, Russians, Georgians, Azerbaijans he met with different languages. Joseph Orbely, who has studied Armenian (and not only Armenian) culture, art and history, was from family with aristocratic origin. Orbely family …
Lydia Durnovo was born in 1885 in Smolensk. In 1902 she graduated from the local college, where she studied drawing. In 1904 Durnovo moved to St. Petersburg, where she entered the workshop of A.V.Makovsky, but here she studies only a year. Russian-Japanese war has begun, and she as a sister of mercy leaving for the front. …
Photojournalism in Armenia was founded in 1920s and one of the spearheads of this activity was Nemrut Baghdasaryan. He was one of the first photographers who had placed photos in the newspapers. Heretofore the images in these newspapers were done by hand, however they were not able to have the same impact on a reader …
On the 20th of March, at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA) opened an exhibition named “Image of womаn in Iranian contemporary art.” Curator of the exhibition was Shake A. Petrosyan. The image of women in the east, always had a problem in it, more than anywhere else, and it was always different …
Hakob Ananikyan is an artist with original talent (1919-1977). He has explored his aptitude since 1966 when leaving his birthplace Leninakan he settled in Yerevan. However in his works of art he remains faithful to his own city, infinitely recalling in memory old Gyumri,events and figures, life and lifestyle, unrepeatable soul …
