Tag: Arts and Culture

Empire State Building observatory reopens with new 360-degree view

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The stunning view from the highest observatory at New York’s Empire State Building just got even better. On Saturday, the viewing platform on the 102nd floor, known as the “top deck,” reopens with a new 360-degree perspective on the Big Apple following ten months of renovations. The work is the third in a four-step project, which started four and half years ago, to improve the experience at arguably the […]

Kauna-unahang economic museum sa bansa binuksan na sa publiko sa Iloilo

(Eagle News) — Pormal nang binuksan sa publiko ang kauna-unahang museum ng Philippine Economic History sa bansa. Ang nasabing museo ay ang lumang building ng Commission on Audit. Ito ay naglalayong ipaalam sa publiko ang kasaysayan ng ekonomiya sa bansa sa pamamagitan ng mga naka-display na mga lumang kagamitan at kasangkapan na ginagamit ng iba’t ibang industriya na nagpalakas ng komersyo sa bansa. Ang museo ay may labintatlong (13) galleries na maaaring pasyalan ng libre […]

Scans reveal newsprint, second painting under Picasso

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Infrared imaging technology has helped peel back the layers of a Pablo Picasso painting on display in Japan, and revealed a page from a 1902 newspaper and another composition below. US and Japanese researchers scanned the piece “Mother and Child by the Sea”, owned by the Pola Museum of Art in Hakone, west of Tokyo, and uncovered a page of the French newspaper Le Journal from January 18, 1902. “While the […]

Brazilian teenager breaks record for female graffiti fresco

A 2,500-square-meter graffiti fresco, sprayed onto the side of a Rio school, is about to enter the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest created by a woman. The artist in question is 19-year-old Luna Buschinelli from Brazil. Her work was inaugurated on Monday by the city’s mayor. (AFP Video) https://youtu.be/f0qPfWNnHto