George Dyer Talking auctioned in London
Peruvian director Claudia Llosa (centre) with actors Melanie Laurent (left) and Jennifer Connelly on the red carpet before the screening of the movie Aloft at the 64th Berlinale International Film Festival. Photo: Thomas Peter/Reuters A New Age healer...
An employee hangs the Damien Hirst inspired Mickey Mouse which is being auctioned tonight at Christie’s in central London. Photo: John Stillwell/PA Wire A Damien Hirst depiction of Mickey Mouse and a Francis Bacon artwork expected to fetch more than...
The winner, Luke Spiteri, left, and his entourage, Maria, Corinne, and Jake, on a shopping spree at Debenhams to choose their outfits for the Eurovision. Debenhams sponsored the Malta Eurovision 2014 and to coincide with the occasion, a Malta...
Cornelius Gurlitt’s cache includes paintings by Monet, Renoir and Picasso among others
After wearing a paper bag on his head to a red carpet premier and walking out of a press conference for his new film, actor Shia LaBeouf’s latest bizarre antic was to reveal an art project. LaBeouf, 27, a former Disney star who later became known as...
Festival screenings take a deep look at homophobia across different countries
Top fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has a new client – Miss Piggy. Disney film Muppets Most Wanted, starring Tina Fey and Ricky Gervais, features the characters on a mayhem-hit grand tour of Europe. Miss Piggy, who dons the ivory couture wedding...
Local taboos, hang-ups and prejudices are explored in play that has been the subject of much controversy
Auditions are being held tomorrow at the Manoel Theatre for Id-Dlam taħt it-Teatru, a fun, new play for teenagers. Written by playwright Malcolm Galea, whose most recent work is the Masquerade pantomime Little Red Riding Hood and You Know Who, the play...
Update of 1987 hit film has less gore and satire but is still engaging
The Lego Movie, an animated film based on the colourful plastic children’s blocks, snapped up $69.1 million in ticket sales to top weekend box-office charts, easily beating the George Clooney World War II film The Monuments Men. The Monuments Men,...
Rare jackets worn by George Harrison and Ringo Starr during the making of The Beatles’ 1965 film Help! are to go up for sale. The comedy adventure, directed by Richard Lester, sees the group come up against an evil cult and flee to the Austrian Alps to...
25 years since first adventure, British coat maker sells more than 1,000 replicas per year
Men of the Docks by George Bellows. The National Gallery in London has bought its first ever painting by a US artist, Men of the Docks by George Bellows, departing from its previous policy of acquiring only paintings by artists working in Western...
A copy of the 10-metre-high thumbs up that will take pride of place on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, in 2016. A riderless horse and a 10-metre-high thumbs up are the latest works that will take their place on Trafalgar Square’s fourth...
Part of the recent wave of appointments and replacements to hit the culture scene, Brian Schembri is now artistic director and principal conductor of the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra. Alex Vella Gregory speaks to the maestro about the direction he sees...
It is appropriate that just a year after her untimely death, Sharon Sapienza’s last artistic creation, muDanzas Boleras will be staged at our national theatre. muDanzas Boleras is the fruit of deep research and ambition, a project which had been...
Alex Vella Gregory finds an encouraging start to the Manoel Theatre Youth Opera.
The second concert from this season’s Young Artists Series, aimed at providing local young and promising musicians with a launching platform for their career, is being held at the Salesian Theatre in Sliema. The evening will feature Euchar Gravina...
What do black metal and majestic rock band Queen have in common? Nothing, most people would say, and indeed there is little to indicate there may be any connection. The answer lies not in the music, but in the fact that Queen is the band that local...
Steve Borg It was just over a year ago that the Maltese rock scene lost one of its veterans; veteran as in experience, of course, for guitarist Steve Borg was only 43 when he left this world for the great gig in the sky. A couple of months later, some...
The third edition of the Rock the South music festival will again take place at Zion Bar, Marsascala, with the exception that this year it has been expanded into a three-day event. “After the success of the previous two editions, we wanted to make this...
Lies is the debut solo single from Rikki Lee, “a Maltese musician with an English background”, as he likes to call himself. An unknown quantity on the local scene up until a year ago, Lee made his mark here as the voice of new arrivals, Gypsy Genes,...
Patti Smith. Photo: Steven Sebring Her musical career may have started with the release of her seminal 1975 debut album Horses, but the seeds of Patti Smith’s artistic expressions had been sown long before that. A dedicated and inspired poet, she gave...
Reġa’ Sebaħ Alex Dalli is increasingly becoming an artist whose works are sought after by avid, local art collectors. It is the truth in his work that is making him popular among his dedicated audience. Throughout the month of January, the exhibition...
Claiming that Malta is undergoing a massive creative brain drain, with worthy projects being shunned in favour of simpler ideas, artist Matthew Attard Navarro packed his bags for London 18 months ago and went on to become art director for major media...
Paul Xuereb reviews Unifaun’s production of Tender Napalm.
Throughout the past years, the Alliance française de Malte-Mediterranée, has embarked on a drive to offer an innovative window to Maltese theatre-goers, bringing contemporary French drama to Malta. Following the success of Yasmina Reza’s Carnage, it is...
Simone Spiteri’s latest theatrical creation takes us down the dark and whirlwind path of a man who journeys into his past. She explores the ethereal concept of tapping into memories with Veronica Stivala. Forget-Me-Not combines theatre with music and...
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