Sergey Smbatyan, the artistic director and principal conductor of the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia became the member of the outstanding organization “Swiss Gart” (Swiss Global Art Management Gart).
President Serzh Sargsyan sent a congratulatory message to the renowned author, expert in Armenian studies, translator and intellectual Kim Bakshi on March 1, wishing him excellent health and new creative achievements.
Sevan Bıçakçı was born 1965 in Istanbul; Turkey is a famed jeweler of Armenian descent. He is one of the few renowned jewelers in Turkey and is known around the world. He is considered a “star jeweler” in Turkey.
Krzysztof Zanussi, Polish director, awardee of film festivals of Venice, Cannes and etc., this week proposes 168.am readers to watch “The Seventh seal” by Ernst Ingmar Bergman, which Bergman himself considers his best creation and favorite movie. Krzysztof Zanussi thinks, from the standpoint of cinematographic literacy the film is among the must-see.
Profoundly acknowledging the universal importance of Saroyan’s heritage, on account of its poor condition, and aiming at saving it from destruction, Intellectual Renaissance Foundation founded by Arthur Janibekyan purchased it in 2015, which throughout last two years boosted development of Armenian Wikipedia and contributed to rising Armenian intellectual potential on international level.
The video was accompanied by the famous hit “Blackbird” by “Beatles”.
World-famous Armenian moviemaker Atom Egoyan this week offers 168.am readers to watch one of his preferred movies—“Vertigo” by Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock This is Atom Egoyan’s reflection on the film: “The movie I can watch over and over again is Alfred Joseph Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.”I think, it creates an exceptional mood of desire and longing, and […]
Famous documentary filmmaker Artavazd Pelechian has been a long time in Armenia. Currently he is in Yerevan, a few days ago celebrated his birthday, and today, together with his old friend, another legendary Armenian—composer Tigran Mansurian visited Komitas Pantheon, after which the two prominent Armenians were hosted at Komitas Museum-Pantheon, where in the company of […]
Turns out, keeping silent is a principle for Peleshyan, a promise, which he has never betrayed. He gave his word to be silent to Leonid Kristi, his master in Moscow at VGIK (Russian state University of Cinematography), about whom maestro speaks of with special tenderness and feeling of gratitude, and in the studio of whom he studied directing in the period of 1963-1967.
Aram Ilich’s childish sincerity was worth recognizing, to understand, that it wasn’t an artist’s coquetry, but quite a natural reaction: “How come? A Nobel Prize winner, approximately a divine creature, and I’m maestro from him?”
