• How to Preserve the Taste of Home on the Other Side of the World: French Publisher to Release Siblings Zarzavadjian’s Book on Armenian Diaspora Cuisine

  From Argentina and Lebanon to Australia and Japan, Armenian cuisine has long lived far beyond Armenia’s borders, evolving under the influence of new countries, ingredients and family stories...

• Athens Takes on Dubai: How the Ancient Capital Is Becoming a New Haven for Wealthy Expats

  Where Athens’ old airport once stood, a futuristic city is rapidly taking shape. Modern residential complexes, green spaces and cutting-edge technology are at the heart of the massive Ellinikon development, which is set to include around 9,000 homes, shopping centers, offices, hotels and the giant Riviera Tower skyscraper, according to the Daily Mail...

• The Return of a Legend: Romance, Energy and Declarations of Love at Garou’s Concert in Yerevan

  On September 22, Yerevan welcomed Garou once again, the French-Canadian singer known to millions of viewers for his role as Quasimodo in Notre-Dame de Paris...

• Beautiful Destinations, Cold Reception: 6 Places Where Tourists Encounter Rude Service

  The Eiffel Tower, charming Italian streets and the azure waters of the Adriatic — millions of tourists dream of visiting these places. But behind the picture-perfect postcards, there can sometimes be an unexpected reality: cold looks, curt replies and service that can spoil even a long-awaited vacation...

• Dubai Like You’ve Never Seen It Before: A Guide to the City’s New Season

  A Dubai hotel has long since evolved beyond simply being a place to spend the night. Today, it is a self-contained resort world where you can spend several days without ever leaving the property — waking to the sound of fountains or waves, having breakfast with a view worth getting up early for. In the newest projects, the view from the window, signature cuisine, pool design and architecture of the building itself all matter...

• Ashes in a Fire Extinguisher, Hitler on His Knees and Dead Pigeons: Maurizio Cattelan Brings “Night” to Berlin

  A fire extinguisher may well be the most inconspicuous object in Maurizio Cattelan’s new exhibition in Berlin. Yet “Dust,” installed at the entrance to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s modernist glass hall, is also the most significant work in the show. Inside the fire extinguisher are the ashes of a friend of the artist, Hypebeast reports...

• iPhone from 1937: A Nearly 90-Year-Old Painting Sparks a Bizarre Conspiracy Theory

  A nearly 90-year-old painting has sparked a furious online debate and given rise to a bizarre conspiracy theory, with social media users convinced that an Indigenous man depicted in the artwork is holding a modern-day smartphone, the New York Post reports...

• The Boy Who Looks Like Boris Johnson: Why Steal Renoir at All?

  A robbery at the Louvre is easy enough to understand. Surely there isn’t a person alive who wouldn’t fancy hanging a Gericault or Leonardo in the guest bathroom. The same goes for the Musée d’Orsay and even the Centre Pompidou — French treasure houses crammed with extraordinary art practically begging for a daring heist. But the Renoir Museum? It is hard to imagine why anyone would bother, writes The Guardian...

The daughter of the late Colombian artist Fernando Botero has helped transform the streets and squares of Rome into an open-air museum displaying eight of her father's famous three-dimensional, whimsical sculptures.

The exhibition was organized as a tribute to Botero, who died on September 15, 2023 at the age of 91 in Monaco, where he had a studio. The artist lived also for many years in the Italian town of Pietrasanta in the Tuscany region, where he was buried next to his third wife, artist Sofia Vari, AP reports.

"I'm sure my father would be very touched because Italy has always been his second home," his daughter Lina Botero told private Italian television TV2000.

All the statues presented at the exhibition were created by Botero while he lived in Italy. His attachment to Italy was partly due to his artistic affinity with the Renaissance masters.

Although his impressive bronze sculptures have been exhibited in the parks and alleys of many European and Latin American capitals, in Rome they can be seen for the first time on such a scale. The exhibition will run until October 1.

Art lovers can follow the Botero path, starting from the central park of Villa Borghese, where the "Reclining Woman" looks out over the rooftops of Rome towards St. Peter's Basilica from the Pincio terrace. In Piazza del Popolo, the Adam and Eve sculptures face each other. The horse with a bridle is located on the central Roman shopping street Via del Corso, and the journey ends near Piazza di Spagna with the “Seated Woman.”

Lorenzo Zichichi, representing one of the co-organizers of the exhibition, said it would be a mistake to call the sculptures fat. “Botero always said that he never drew fat women and never sculpted fat women,” Zichichi said. “What fascinated him was the volume.”

To note, three sculptures—“Smoking Woman”, “Greek Warrior,” and “Cat”—by Botero are installed at the Cafesjian Center for the Arts on the Cascade in downtown Yerevan.

Follow NEWS.am STYLE on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram