97-year-old Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama died
Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, famous worldwide for her sculptures, installations, and iconic polka-dotted works, has died at 97. Her death was announced by…
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Long-time director of Šiauliai Drama Theatre Regina Steponavičiūtė has died
Theatre director Regina Steponavičiūtė, who worked at the Šiauliai State Drama Theatre for almost four decades, died at the age of 78. During her creative career, she directed…
The Minister of Culture proposes that cultural institutions be allowed to borrow from ILTE
„We are not sitting still and not only thinking that the cultural sector can be financed only from the budget. We are also considering alternative ways. Today, we are very strongly and actively considering the possibilities of borrowing for the sector from ILTE, because now there is such an opportunity for the cultural sector to…
Australia blocks AI music: fully artificial intelligence-created works will no longer be able to enter the charts
The Australian recorded music industry will ban works created using only artificial intelligence (AI) in official charts.
The velvet slipper returned to the homeland of Motiejus Valančius
Jos centre – a personal item of Bishop Motiejus Valančius, symbolically returned to its owner’s homeland after more than a century – a 19th-century handmade velvet shoe. Read more Vilnius becomes a literary scene: «Book Square» will invite to three city spaces this year The pontifical sandal and silk stocking were part of the bishop’s…
Minister of Culture: Research on the search for the remains of Vytautas the Great in the Cathedral will begin in early autumn
Minister of Culture Lukas Alsys states that early in the autumn, investigations should begin in Vilnius Cathedral to determine the location of the remains of Vytautas the Great.
Vilnius distributed the first scholarships to artists, among the 19 selected creators – also well-known names
Vilnius awarded city scholarships to culture and art creators for the first time. The first competition was allocated 50 thousand euros, and the interest in the program far exceeded exp…
Palanga Summer Reading Room – 60 years: a new study reveals its lesser-known history
A new study reminded that the history of the famous modernist pavilion – the Palanga summer reading room of the Lithuanian National Library – began much earlier than…
LGGRTC director Arūnas Bubnys nominated for the European Platform of Memory and Conscience award
Director of the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (LGGRTC) Arūnas Bubnys has been nominated for the European Memory Award for more than 40 years of historical research…
Four works by Antonello da Messina stolen from the museum, researchers suspect an ordered theft
On the evening of August 15, four works by one of the most prominent Italian early Renaissance painters, Antonello da Messina, were stolen from the museum in Messina, on the island of Sicily. Among them…