2012 in Review: Ten Arts Culture Stories
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The late artist Afewerk Tekle speaking at Stanford University on March 7, 2004. (Photo: Tadias Magazine File)
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By Tadias Staff
Updated: Wednesday, December 26, 2012
New York (TADIAS) – In 2012 we lost Ethiopia’s most famous painter, Maitre Artiste Afewerk Tekle, who died last Spring at the age of 80 and was laid to rest at the cem
...Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting
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GUANGZHOU, China — It says something about the state of architecture today that the most alluring opera house built anywhere in the world in decades is in a generic new business district at the outer edge of this city, has no resident company and a second-rate program.
Art Showing Creatives of Addis
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The third annual Art of Ethiopia exhibition at the Sheraton Addis opened on Saturday, August 21, 2010, with 40 established and aspiring artists displaying 400 artworks
Talks in Visual Language: Reinvented Script Visits Capital
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The Amharic script stands at the centre of the art of Wosene Worke Kosrof, who opened his first exhibition in Ethiopia in 14 years on November 13, 2010, at the National Museum Gallery in Addis Abeba.
Panel discussions and workshops form part of the two-month exhibition which is titled, “Wordplay,” a series Wosene claims to have been working on for about 10 years.
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Ancient prayer book returned to Ethiopia
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ADDIS ABABA — A century-old Ethiopian prayer book stolen decades ago was returned to the African nation late Wednesday after the American collector who held it agreed to the restitution.
The precious relic is a psalter written in the liturgical Geez language and illuminated with bright and colourful pictures of saints that belonged to Emperor Menelik, who ruled the country from 1889 to 1913.