A UK-based artist cleans up beaches in Brighton. She spends time collecting trash which is later turned into artworks. Visitors often litter the beach and hence becomes a never-ending task for Sammie Aplin.

UK artist Sammie Aplin turns beach trash into art

A Brazilian artist used ashes from Amazon wildfires to create a one-of-a-kind mural depicting a firefighter. He said that he wanted to raise awareness about the environment through his work. Take a look at this report.

Brazilian artist uses ashes from Amazon wildfires to create unique mural

At this exhibition organized by Extinction Rebellion, a group of environmental activists, artists are looking for new ways to communicate on the eco-climatic crisis, one month before the start of the COP26 Climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland.

Using art to communicate the climate crisis

Top muralists have deployed around Sao Paulo participating in a week-long festival with giant paintings of their best work, turning what once was sanctioned graffiti into art works.

Giant graffiti murals adorn Sao Paulo skyline

British fashion house Burberry deconstructed its camel trench coat for its women's spring line on Monday (September 27), removing sleeves and in some cases, its back.

Burberry shows 'animal instinct' with deconstructed trench for spring/summer 2022

If anyone doesn't need reminding that banknotes are just worthless pieces of paper, it is Zimbabweans: over a decade ago, they watched as hyperinflation obliterated their currency and led to the printing of a 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note. Most bills ended up in the trash, but Zimbabwean visual artist Prudence Chimutuwah has found value in the unloved old bank notes -- by using them to make art.

Zimbabwe- based artist turns worthless old Mugabe-era banknotes into paintings

Japan to get its 1st high school ‘manga studies’ department, to start classes by 2023

Netherland is a top tourist destination due to its art and culture. The government of the Netherlands is preparing to preserve its art and culture through a collective art centre and is planning to keep around 500,000 paintings under one Roof.

Netherland to preserve collective art memory through Dutch collection centre

A new exhibition in Berlin is exploring how the favorite artists of the Nazi regime continued to work uninterrupted after the Second World War .The exhibition "Divinely Gifted" National Socialists favorite artists in the federal republic" shows how some artists that embraced the Hitler dictatorship continued to create, to teach and to make a living after 1945, without much regard to their past.

Exhibition explores what happened to Hitler's favourite artists after WWII

A traditional painting technique is seeing a revival in one of Russia's major cities. Volkhov painting, as the name would suggest, originated in the Volkhov region. Its romantic history and distinct floral patterning are now proving popular among modern day Russians.

Romantic Russian flower-painting technique revived

Cast members from revived musical comedy "Anything Goes" hope to bring some relief to audiences from the COVID-19 pandemic in one of the first major shows to open in London since the easing of restrictions in England last week.

Musical 'Anything Goes' a tonic for London audiences after COVID, says cast | WION

If you happened to stroll by Union Square in New York City on Sunday (July 25), you might have been greeted by an unusual sight: people posing nude, their bodies covered in floral designs and stars painted in bright colors. That's how a group of 26 artists and 45 models celebrated the eighth annual NYC Bodypainting Day, using the human body as their canvas to promote messages like body positivity.

Models shed clothes for annual Bodypainting Day in NYC

Legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen returned to Broadway on Saturday night (June 26). The show's first run finished on December 15, 2018, but Springsteen sought to re-open Broadway performances by restarting his show.

The Boss returns to Broadway

Balconies have become the new performance space for Bolivia's National Symphony Orchestra, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of concert halls.

Bolivian orchestra delights with balcony concert for pandemic respite

On a small island where the Senegal River meets the sea, hundreds of mask-wearing jazz enthusiasts listened to French-Senegalse vocalist Awa Ly sing a blues for uncertain times. Last year COVID-19 halted Saint Louis' jazz festival for the first time in its 29-year history. This year it was back, bringing much needed life to the Island of Saint Louis, a UNESCO World Heritage site famed for its colonial architecture and pastel-coloured houses.

Jazz is back in Senegal's St Louis

After going through a period of what she describes as ''writer's block'' Australian singer-songwriter Natalie Imbruglia has a new album out later this year.

Natalie Imbruglia over comes writer's block, drops new single

From old denim fabrics, Afghan refugee Bagher Husseini fashioned a pair of baggy jeans with fringed patches that he hopes will be paraded down a French catwalk later this year. He's involved in a collaboration between French fashion students and migrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Refugees in Paris with an eye on fashion

From life-sized Pharaonic busts to finely painted copies of their treasured grave goods, Egypt has inaugurated a factory dedicated to making high-quality replicas of ancient Egyptian artifacts, available to tourists for purchase. The 10,000 square metre "Konouz Factory" houses more than 150 skilled artists and conservators, and has so far produced more than 6,400 replicas made out of stone, wood, ceramic, and even gold and silver.

Factory produces high-end replicas of ancient Egyptian treasures

A bronze statue of the main God of the kingdom of Saba, located in what is now the Yemeni province of Marib, lies in a dark and fortified room of the Sanaa National Museum. The piece was made by a man named Hawtar Athat in the first half of the sixth century BC. It has been lucky enough to survive the latest war in Yemen. Many other artefacts have not.

As war destroys Yemen's present, museums struggle to preserve its past

Sotheby's sells first NFT that sparked a craze

Rachel Armstrong will take a leap towards her dream of becoming one of the world's top ballet dancers when she graduates from Russia's renowned Bolshoi Ballet Academy this month. Armstrong, 20, is among the few dancers from England to ever graduate from the prestigious institution, whose Russian and foreign graduates dance for ballet companies across the globe.

After tough Bolshoi training, British ballerina sets eyes on world stage

After a year of intense medical care, doctors and nurses celebrated the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions in Israel Tuesday with a concert in the lobby of Ichilov hospital at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center.

Tel Aviv hospital celebrates lifting of COVID-19 restrictions

Brazilian artist Eduardo Srur reproduces works by renowned masters without using a drop of paint - just recycled shreds of plastic picked up from city streets and rivers.

Brazilian conjures works of art from plastic bags

Twice a week, dozens of Mozambican children gather under the shade of a mango tree for what looks at first glance like a community play date. But they are not there for fun, rather for solace and healing after witnessing shocking atrocities committed by jihadists in the north of the country over the past three years.

Sketching out trauma: art, puppets heal children of Mozambique conflict

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