One of the largest art and&nbsp;cultural&nbsp;festivals in South-East Asia, the Serendipity Arts Festival&nbsp;is launching a new digital experience for art lovers in quarantine. Called SAFxYOU&nbsp;2020, the digital initiative begins from April 25th and will go on for five days. The virtual celebration will see a combination of webinars, performances, readings and workshops exploring the world of food, film, live arts, literature and fashion. You can indulge in all of this from the comfort of your home, for free, using the festival's social media pages and a newly redesigned website.&nbsp;

One of the largest art and cultural festivals in South-East Asia, the Serendipity Arts Festival is launching a new digital experience for art lovers in quarantine. Called SAFxYOU 2020, the digital initiative begins from April 25th and will go on for five days. The virtual celebration will see a combination of webinars, performances, readings and workshops exploring the world of food, film, live arts, literature and fashion. You can indulge in all of this from the comfort of your home, for free, using the festival's social media pages and a newly redesigned website.

Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli's painting called 'Young Man Holding a Roundel' is going under the hammer at an auction in January next year and is estimated to sell for $80 million or approximately over Rs 590 crores.
The 15th century rare portrait stands apart for its quality and will be the highlight of Sotheby's Masters Week Sales in New York. It was last acquired at a 1982 auction for just over $1 million.
The painting of a nobleman actually showcases two artworks- the noble sitter painted by Botticelli while the roundel is a 14th century work credited to Bartolommeo Bulgarini, a Sienese painter. While it is unclear who the young man depicted, some infer that his hair is long and fashionable for the time, while he is dressed in a republican way.

A popular chain of gaming and entertainment centres, SMAAASH&nbsp;Entertainment is closing its doors, according to media reports citing an internal email.&nbsp;
The company, which operates 45 branches across 19 cities in India, has become another victim of the Covid-19 pandemic that forced people to stay at home and avoid entertainment sites.
With Sachin&nbsp;Tendulkar as its brand ambassador for many years, SMAAASH&nbsp;opened its first two outlets in Mumbai&nbsp;in 2012. The gaming and entertainment spot combined arcade gaming, virtual reality and other sports and entertainment technology that made it a hit with the youth.&nbsp;

Anonymous street artist Banksy's version of Monet's Water Lillies is all set to be auctioned at Sotheby's in London on the 21st of October.
The 2005 creation, called 'Show me the Monet' is expected to fetch anywhere between $3-5 million. In Banksy's reimagined piece, the classic water lillies picture is filled with images of abandoned shopping trolleys and a traffic cone.
'Show me the Monet' is from a series of works called Crude Oils, which in Banksy's words includes remixes of canonical artworks.

It was another field day for Izzy and Darwin, a pair of Magellanic penguins at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium.
The duo ventured out to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary&nbsp;Art and even explored its latest exhibit called 'Just Connect'.
 These trips, according to aquarium handlers, help the duo exercise and adds variety to their day.

To suit the new normal, the Ministry of Culture is planning to transform its usual functioning to integrate a range of digital initiatives. According to a Hindustan Times report, this will also include a web-series on India's freedom struggle&nbsp;and virtual tours of monuments. The web series may have 20 episodes and could air on Netflix and Amazon Prime among other platforms.
The virtual tours will allow&nbsp;people to get a feel of the monuments from the comforts of their homes. The monuments will be visible at different times of the day and the tour will be followed by a quiz for students.
Officials have also begun a process of cultural mapping in different&nbsp;districts, to document India's heritage, which will be uploaded on e-heritagepedia- a platform with information on Indian culture. Work on an e-artistpedia and e-marketplace is also in the pipeline.

Renowned singer and music composer&nbsp;Waheed Jeelani&nbsp;from Kashmir, along with a group of other singers and composers, have come together to promote the rich musical culture and heritage of Jammu&nbsp;and Kashmir at a global level.
Music studios in Kashmir reopened almost after a year and the group began their recording sessions keeping all guidelines in mind.&nbsp;
They are releasing an album titled&nbsp;&lsquo;Qaraar&rsquo;, which is a first-of-its-kind, giving greater opportunities to local Kashmiri&nbsp;artists.&nbsp;
As part of the album, they are all set to launch a special song titled &lsquo;Wattan&rsquo; .
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Sotheby&rsquo;s in New York is dedicating the month of September to its first-ever hip-hop auction!
The auction will trace hip-hop culture from the late 1970s through to the mid-1990s, and a wide range of&nbsp;hip-hop memorabilia will be up for grabs on September 15.
Some key highlights of the sale include late rapper Notorious B.I.G.'s iconic 'King of New York' crown and handwritten love letters by teenage Tupac Shakur.
The auction, which has been in the works for seven years now, will feature contemporary art, posters, photography and jewellery related to hip-hop.&nbsp;

Powerful light beams lit up the lower Manhattan skyline on Friday as part of the annual Tribute in Light installation commemorating those who lost their lives on 9/11.
The Sept. 11 memorial and the Tunnel to Towers foundation tussled over the Tribute in Light, a pair of powerful beams that shine into the night sky near the trade centre, evoking its fallen twin towers.
The 9/11 memorial initially cancelled the display, citing virus safety concerns for the installation crew.

Under the motto "together we shine" the historic centre of Berlin was lit up on Friday evening with installations on monuments and historical buildings throughout the city.
The 16th Festival of Lights has turned it into an open air light gallery.
It will spread throughout the city over the next week, illuminating different neighbourhoods and hopefully bringing some joy during the coronavirus pandemic as well as&nbsp;spread the message of gratitude and solidarity in these difficult times.&nbsp;

A female student in Paris was reportedly denied entry into one of France's most popular art museums, Mus&eacute;e d'Orsay. The woman&nbsp;was wearing a&nbsp;low-cut dress and was asked by museum&nbsp;security to&nbsp;her to cover up the revealing&nbsp;neckline.
The museum, which is home to several bare-breasted paintings and sculptures, faced an outpour&nbsp;of backlash on social media for the incident that occurred on September 8.&nbsp;
After the woman's letter to the museum went&nbsp;viral on social media, officials have now apologised, saying that they deeply regret this and present sincere excuses to the person involved&nbsp;in a statement on Twitter.

Following positive feedback for its experimental project promoting the use of Sanskrit as a means of daily communication, the Uttarakhand government has now announced the setting up of a digital library of Sanskrit manuscripts.&nbsp;
The state has also decided to develop 'Sanskrit Gram' or model villages where people&nbsp;will communicate with each other in the ancient Indian language on a daily basis.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Sanskrit Academy in Uttarakhand&nbsp;where it was also decided to rename the academy as Uttarakhand Sanskrit Sansthanam.&nbsp;
During the meeting held on Tuesday, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said, 'It is very important to promote Sanskrit, the mother of languages, so that along with preserving our ancient culture, the trend of youth towards the Sanskrit language can also be increased.'&nbsp;

Shifting monsoon patterns linked to climate change likely caused the rise and fall of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation, according to a study analysing data from North India from the past 5,700 years.
The analysis by an Indian-origin&nbsp;scientist at the Rochester University of Technology in the US, measured&nbsp;the presence of particular chemical forms in South Asian caves to formulate&nbsp;a record of monsoon rainfall in the region for the past 5,700 years.
While there are several theories about why the Indus Valley Civilisation declined, including invasion by nomadic Indo-Aryans and earthquakes, climate change appears to be the most likely scenario, the study&nbsp;published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science noted.

The annual Art Basel fair in Miami Beach, scheduled to take place in early December, has been cancelled owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The decision has been taken keeping several factors in mind, including restrictions on international travel, need to avoid large-scale gatherings and quarantine rules.&nbsp;
Art Basel however has launched a host of digital initiatives, where it will host two editions of its 'Online Viewing Rooms'.
One edition dedicated to artworks created during 2020 which will be held from the 23rd to the 26th of September. The other dedicated to pieces created between 1900 and 1999 will be held from the 28th to the 31st of October.&nbsp;

Creating a price record, a painting by late Indian artist MF Hussain&nbsp;has been sold for Rs. 18.5cr at an online auction making the artwork titled Voices, the highest-priced work by Hussain&nbsp;to be sold in a public domain sale.&nbsp;
The oil-on-canvas piece was painted by the late artist in 1958 and was part of a private collection until now. It went under the hammer for the first time, along with 36 more artworks by MF during a 2-day auction by AstaGuru.&nbsp;
Maqbool Fida Husain, a pioneer of modern art in India, died in 2011.&nbsp;

Amid the trying Covid&nbsp;times when lockdown&nbsp;forced shut several museums,&nbsp;the world's first entirely virtual museum - the Virtual Online Museum of Art (VOMA), is gearing to open on September 4
From digital-only creations to masterpieces from renowned museums across the world, VOMA will have something for everyone totally free to view.&nbsp;
Visitors at VOMA, curated by art dealer Lee Cavaliere,&nbsp;will be able to stroll through a digital building, chat with friends, access reviews posted by others and get up close and personal with the artworks through high resolution 3D imagery.
The interactive experience has been created by gaming experts and computer-generated imagery designers.
Be it a cold rainy day or a starry summer night, visitors will be able to see the impact of the environment inside the VOMA&nbsp;world.

New York's Central Park unveiled a statue honouring three suffragettes on August 26, to mark the 100 years of women's suffrage in the United States.
The statue honoured Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, pioneers of women's rights from the 19th century. The monument, by sculptor Meredith Bergmann, now joins other permanent statues of 23 men and two fictional women, Mother goose and Alice in Wonderland, that are currently placed at the park.
The statue was sponsored by a non profit organisation called Monumental Women which raised $1.5 million to fund it.

The International Booker Prize for the year 2020 has been announced. The coveted award was won by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld for&nbsp;The Discomfort of Evening. It has been translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison. The book centres around a 10-year-old girl Jas who is infuriated with her brother Matthies for not being permitted to go for ice-skating with him. This occurs at the onset of the novel. Her wish turns true and he dies. The debut novel then is a fascinating case study of grief .

How's this for some on-brand period drama! A research duo analysing the language Shakespeare used in&nbsp;his sonnets claim that they have found probable&nbsp;evidence to prove the playwright's&nbsp;sexual identity.&nbsp;
According to the analysis reported by The Telegraph, Shakespeare, whose sexuality has long been a topic of debate, addressed some texts to men, more to women and quite a few&nbsp;to an intentional 'genderless love interest.'&nbsp;
The scholars parsed through 182 of Shakespeare's sonnets and say, 'the language of sexuality in some of the sonnets, leaves us in no doubt that Shakespeare was bisexual.
The findings, among many others, by&nbsp;Professor Sir Stanley Wells and Dr Paul Edmondson&nbsp;will be published as a book by Cambridge University Press in September.&nbsp;

Marking the 100th anniversary for women attaining the right to vote in America, US First Lady Melania&nbsp;Trump unveiled&nbsp;a children's art exhibit.&nbsp;
The exhibit displayed&nbsp;on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House features&nbsp;works by children from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.&nbsp;
The First Lady used this opportunity to also promote her husband's efforts, who faces a heavy deficit of female voters, according to polls.
The exhibit titled 'Building the Movement: America&rsquo;s Youth Celebrate 100 Years of Women&rsquo;s Suffrage,' received over 450 submissions.&nbsp;

Two Israeli youths in Yavne uncovered a trove of hundreds of gold coins, believed to date back to the 9th-century Abbasid caliphate period. The 425 coins, made of pure 24-karat gold, were found buried in a clay jar secured with a nail, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority. A coin expert said that the sum is large enough to have enabled a person in that era to buy a luxurious house in one of the best neighbourhoods. The area where the treasure was found is believed to have housed a workshop.

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