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ART AND CULTURE - June 2019

Jun 2019

Jan 07, 2020

Mizoram govt to organise Zo fest in 10 states, US, Bangladesh

The Mizoram government will be organising Zo Kutpui (festival) in at least 10 states across India and countries such as US, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The first edition of the festival will start on January 9 in Vanghmun in Tripura and will be held over three days.
The festival will then move to other states which have significant Mizo population, he added.
The move is an attempt to unify and strengthen the brotherhood among various Mizo tribes living in different parts of the world.
Chief Minister Zoramthanga would grace the event at Vanghmun, while Tourism Minister Robert Romawia Royte would be the chief host of the festival.

Dec 14, 2019

Over 1,000 Relics Recovered from Syrian Museum

More than 1,000 ancient relics and mosaics were saved from Islamic State group militants when staff at the museum of the Syrian city of Raqqa managed to hide them underground and in storehouses. Hundreds of other pieces that were hidden in Raqqa's branch of the central bank were discovered and stolen by militants.

Dec 06, 2019

Penn Museum Hands over Ancient Clay Tablets to Iraqi Embassy

Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Museum delivered the fragments of 387 clay tablets to Iraq's embassy in Washington D.C. in the start of a repatriation process. The museum's researchers determined that the tablets, which were excavated nearly a century ago in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur, were used to document economic transactions—similar to modern day receipts.
The tablets were retrieved between 1922 and 1934 during excavations jointly sponsored by the Penn Museum and the British Museum. Roughly 7,500 tablets and fragments were brought to Philadelphia under a loan agreement with the Iraqi government stating that they would be researched at the university museum and then returned.

Nov 29, 2019

Mozart Childhood Portrait Sold for €4m at Paris Auction

A rare portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart aged 13 has fetched €4m (£3.4m; $4.4m) at a Christie's auction in Paris - far more than had been expected.
It shows the Austrian musical prodigy playing a harpsichord during a tour of Italy in January 1770.
Christie's says the composer and his father were staying in Verona with Pietro Lugiati, a top official in the Republic of Venice. An admirer of Mozart, he commissioned the painting.
It is attributed to a Veronese artist.
As per Astrid Centner, head of the auction house's Old Masters department in Paris, tt was most probably painted by the Veronese master Giambettino Cignaroli, who was Lugiati's cousin.

China-Bulgaria Art Exhibition Opens in Sofia

A joint exhibition of works by professors from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing and the National Academy of Art (NAA) opened in Sofia.
The eight-week exhibition, which is titled "Silk Road: from Tradition to Contemporaneity" and dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Bulgaria, features works of 40 Bulgarian and 51 Chinese professors.
The works are a wonderful embodiment of the long-standing friendship between China and Bulgaria.
Yue Jieqiong, director of CAFA's Office for Collaborative Innovation Centre, said that the exhibition, which is held in the National Gallery, features works from different disciplines in the two educational institutions.

Nov 25, 2019

Guj Harappans were First 'Climate Refugees'

The latest excavations at the Karim Shahi and Vigakot sites in Gujarat, dating back to 2,100 BCE and 5th century CE, right on the Kutch-Pakistan international border, have shed light on how climate change in the post-Harappan period in the Kutch region affected ancient human settlements.
A team of scientists from IIT-Kharagpur, Deccan College, PRL Ahmedabad, University of Calcutta, and Kachchh University, said the sites may help narrate the story of one of the first climate refugees following decline in rainfall, drying up of rivers, and changing weather patterns, which probably led to migration of settlements.
The team published findings of their excavations at Karim Shahi and Vigakot over past three years – estimating the age of the settlements in the range of 3,100-2,300 years before present time (BP) and1,500-1,900 BP respectively.
Natural climate change drove out people from their original places. The UN today calls them 'climate refugees'.
Gujarat has some of the prominent Harappan sites in India including Dholavira and Lothal, which are nearly 350km from Karim Shahi and Vigakot, which represent the zenith of the Harappan culture. But few sites have depicted cultural continuation after the late Harappan period (1,300 BCE) in the region. Sarkar is among the 13 authors of the research paper on new evidence of early Iron Age to Medieval settlements from the southern fringe of Thar desert and implications to climate-culture co-evolution.
The paper argues that reduction in south Asian monsoon is long held responsible for demise of the Harappan settlements or relocation of settlement thereafter.

Original Batman, Robin Costumes to be Auctioned

A pair of Batman and Robin outfits, described as the only known complete costumes worn on the 1960s television show, is going up for auction in Los Angeles and the owner is determined that his childhood comic book heroes stay together. The costumes, worn by actors Adam West and Burt Ward, are just two of more than 200 items of 1960s pop culture being sold from the collection amassed by American John Azarian over 30 years. The Batman and Robin costumes, complete with capes, masks, boots, gloves and tights, are expected to fetch between $150,000 and $200,000 at the December 17, 2019 auction.

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