Filmmaker Mariam Kapanadze's animated short Abandoned Village earned recognition from both the juries and audience at the Paris International Animation Film Festival this week, with the director receiving the latest round of praise for her work from the event. With prize-winners announced on Wednesday, Kapanadze…

A UNESCO-supported project by Georgian professionals of the culture field will be unveiled this week to present a vision on boosting sustainability of artistic and cultural organisations and individuals in the country in the coming years. Led by Creative Georgia, a culture agency working to…

In one of the most anticipated exhibitions of this year, the recently updated Vani Archaeological Museum in Georgia's west is opening its doors on Sunday with a display of exhibits illustrating the life and death of the Roman city of Pompeii. Compiled by the Archaeological…

Nino Chakvetadze is a painter and illustrator born in 1971 in Tbilisi. She studied at the Iakob Nikoladze Art School, and at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in the Department of Painting. She’s also a delightful children’s book illustrator and has participated in various…

XXIII Tbilisi International Book Festival is going to be held in its usual form on 24-27 June. Traditionally, the fair is going to take place in Expo Georgia pavilions. Last year, due to the pandemic, for the first time in its history, the festival was…

Branford Marsalis Quartet, Antonio Sanchez band, Monty Alexander Trio in Tbilisi Jazz Festival lineup Three acclaimed bands in the lineup and a new location for performances will mark this year's Tbilisi Jazz Festival next month, with Branford Marsalis Quartet, Antonio Sanchez band and Monty Alexander…

Run between 2015-2019 by the National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia in cooperation with the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) and the Ilia State University Centre for Cultural Heritage and Environmental Studies, the project for conservation and monitoring at…

Effects of past events and recreation of new narratives is the subject of Precious Stone, a new contemporary display of works by artists Tamar Botchorishvili that is marking a reopening of the space of Tbilisi's Gallery ArtBeat after the lockdown. Concerning "all levels" of societal…

Works by three Georgian artists will become new additions to the space of the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts starting on Tuesday, as the Tbilisi venue reopens following the lockdown. Cultural institutions and galleries are coming out of the extended spring shutdown caused by the coronavirus…

Filmmakers Nino Orjonikidze and Vano Arsenishvili have been awarded the principal prize of the Montenegrin-based UnderhillFest documentary festival for their work A Tunnel, with the two directors appearing at the ceremony via video link on Wednesday. Juries for the 11th edition of the festival - which…