An interesting rating of European cities for art lovers and artists was compiled by the German company posterXXL. The popularity index was "deduced" by experts based on the number of art galleries designed by famous architects of buildings, art schools, art festivals, as well as the number of contemporary artists and masters born in a particular city and according to other criteria.

The concert season in Ashgabat will open on August 20 with a performance by young performers. They invite guests and residents of the capital to the evening music program "Film, Film, Film!", where songs from famous Soviet, Turkmen, Russian and foreign films will be performed.

The 10-day marathon concert started on Wednesday evening on the shore of the Caspian Sea, in Avaza. In the "Jadyly kenar" amusement park of the "Deniz" economic society , the first performance of Turkmen pop artists from a series of planned shows that will "spice up" the summer holiday with incendiary songs and fun took place.

The best performers of popular music, as well as pop stars from the countries of Central Asia, Turkey, Russia, South Korea and China will gather on August 18-20 on the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul in the city of Cholpan-Ata, where the III International Issyk-Kul Festival "Meikin Asia" will be held. (“Open Asia”). This was reported by Kabar with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Culture, Information, Sports and Youth Policy of Kyrgyzstan.

Laureate of the “Türkmeniň Altyn Asyry” award Leyli Okdirova will perform at the grand opening of the Caspian Seasons international festival of classical art, which will be held from August 22 to September 6 in the Russian city of Astrakhan.

Art is a world of symbols, and the artist as a guide in this world through his works gives us the opportunity to know their secret essence. One of the interesting examples of art symbols are doors. This meaningful image is interpreted metaphorically and allegorically by Turkmen painters around the main theme – the house as a family hearth.

Musicians of the State Symphony Orchestra conducted by conductor Rasul Klychev are on tour in Germany these days and participate in the summer music festival, which takes place annually in Bayreuth, Bavaria. These days, the German town is turning into a magnificent concert venue, and the natural scenery is a bizarre urban architecture with a symbiosis of medieval and modern architecture. Musical elite from all over the world come here every summer.

The Moscow International Festival "Sounds of Dutar" named after Nury Halmamedov presents a new large-scale event in the world of musicology - an international scientific and practical conference "The problem of the formation of national composer schools in a multicultural space."

The original lyrics, penciled by Queen's Freddie Mercury while writing Bohemian Rhapsody's hit on a small piece of paper, could be sold for nearly a million dollars at an upcoming major auction of his estate.

There is a special day in the life of every theater when artists take the stage after a summer break. The hall is empty, but the chandeliers and footlights glow just as solemnly and mysteriously as during the premiere, and the mystery of the birth of the performance takes place on the stage.