Culture

"Yalli, a masterpiece of Azerbaijani folk dance, is not just an ordinary dance—it is a portrait of the Azerbaijani people, symbolizing its...

Azerbaijan and its capital Baku have become must-visit tourist destinations.

The AI-driven immersive experience showcased NFTs that were new speculative forms of the carpet created using 150,000 archival images of carpets.

Famous Azerbaijani artist Nigar Helmi Abbasbayli’s solo exhibition dedicated to the heritage of Karabakh has been opened at Istanbul’s iconic Atatürk Cultural Center...

The online African marketplace for arts and advisory Aworanka is partnering with Friends of Azerbaijan, a non-profit organisation in Nigeria to promote...

We chatted to the acclaimed, award-winning filmmaker, who also works at the country’s Ministry for Culture, about the founding of the Cinema...

Gazelli Art House is presenting Liminality, its first UK solo exhibition of new works by Aida Mahmudova.

The Soviet, Russian and Azerbaijan writer and screenwriter died in Moscow on March 11 after a long illness, his family reported.

For some, she is a literary phenomenon, the only Azerbaijani writer who achieved recognition in France, for others, she is the last...

Famous Azerbaijani jazz musician will tour the cities of Japan as part of his new collaboration with a music label.

It was early December, and there was no snow in Quba, but the town administrator still told me I was too late....

When we say "independent cinema", the first thought that comes to mind in Azerbaijan is that if a director's film is funded...

The National Library of Moldova (BNRM) and the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Chisinau, with the support of Moldova’s Culture Ministry, today organized...

Minsk Mayor Vladimir Kukharev met with Azerbaijani ambassador to Belarus Ulvi Bakhshaliyev on 8 December to discuss the implementation of the project...

Rufat “Ru” Hasanov’s Daxildəki ada (The Island Within), which premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival in last August and won a Heart...

In this series, Faig identifies each of his three works with an important medieval figure connected to his homeland, Azerbaijan. Each figure...

A picture by an Anadolu Agency reporter based in the Asia-Caucasia region won the "Visitors' favorite photograph" award in a contest in...

The Azerbaijani village of Lahij lies in a gorge of the Nial mountains, about a three-hour drive west of Baku. Its narrow...

Paris-based outfit MPM Premium has boarded the world sales of Hilal Baydarov’s new feature Crane Lantern, Cineuropa has learned.

What we do and should call classical music and what "classical" means in general are the topics that came up in my...

Banality is tiring. Especially when you are young, you often get tired of hearing the same idea, naturally reacting to it with...

Any critical artist with the pretense of actualizing a strong critical statement but fated to cultural production in the framework of legitimate...

The ancient Azerbaijani city of Gabala played host once again to its famous music festival this summer, after a year’s hiatus due...

He befriended the private secretary of the then head of the Soviet Azerbaijani government and even painted a portrait of him. Musayev...