The Azerbaijani city of Shusha has been declared the cultural capital of the Islamic world in 2024. The city's candidacy for obtaining status at the 12th Conference of Ministers of Culture of the Islamic World, held on Monday in the capital of the State of Qatar, Doha, was presented by Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan, Adil Karimli. He proposed Shusha as part of the ISESCO "Cultural Capital of the Islamic World" program. The forum participants unanimously supported the initiative of the Azerbaijani side, according to the website of the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan.

A performance with blank canvases called “Take the Money and Run” cost conceptual artist Jens Haaning a pretty penny. A court in Denmark ordered him to pay 67,000 thousand euros to the Kunsten Museum of Contemporary Art in the city of Aalborg for an unfulfilled order, euronews says.

Julio Iglesias, the main romantic of Spain and the most famous Spanish singer, is celebrating his anniversary - today he is 80 years old. For half a century now the whole world has been listening to his songs and during this time he has given thousands of concerts, released 57 albums, sold 300 million of his records and was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the most commercially successful Spanish-language musician.

The screening of the French film "The Untouchables" ("Intouchables"), and for the Russian-speaking audience known as "1 + 1", will be held in Ashgabat at the French Institute. The organizers of the show ask you to pay attention that the picture will be in French without subtitles and invite those who want to watch the comedy "in the original" to the cinema of the center, on Saturday, September 23 at 14:00.

Nikolai Artemovich Amiyants is an Honored Artist of Turkmenistan, Associate Professor of the Department of String Instruments of the Turkmen National Conservatory named after Maya Kulieva. He is the founder of the violin performing school in Turkmenistan.

On October 18, the capital of Austria, Vienna, will host a gala concert dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the great philosopher and poet Magtymguly Fragi.

The transborder natural object "Turan deserts of the temperate zone", which runs through the territories of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, is included in the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List. The corresponding decision was made at the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee in Riyadh.

The Uzbek city of Samarkand will host the First Theater Festival of the Commonwealth of Independent States in March 2024. Nine theaters from the CIS member states will take part in the creative review, Deputy Governor of the region for Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Sports Rustam Kobilov told media representatives.

The works of artists from the Turkic world, dedicated to the Azerbaijani city of Shusha, will be published in the form of a catalog, which will include paintings by masters of the brush of the traditional creative camp TURKSOY. Painters from Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkey and other countries have gathered here, AZERTAC reports.

“Bringing Horizons Together: A Cultural Odyssey from Central Asia and Mongolia to the European Union” is the title of the exhibition, which opened on Tuesday, September 19, in Brussels, at the European Parliament building.