Arts

“I do love a parade. Don’t you? Hanx” was Tom Hanks’ Tweet, along with video footage, of the annual March 25 Greek Independence Day parade down New York’s Fifth Avenue on Sunday.

The versatile two-time Oscar-winning movie star – and well-known philhellene — apparently took part in the parade as well.

The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) confirmed having identified 101 paintings former Finance Minister Darius Valcov had acquired via go-betweens; the works of art will undergo expert assessment and will be further placed in the custody of a specialist institution that will be able to put them on display.

BELGRADE - An exhibition entitled Art Tour, which is made up of highest quality reproductions of the masterpieces included in the collection of the National Museum in Belgrade, will be opened at Nikola Tesla Airport on March 27.

A French court on March 20 handed down a two-year suspended sentence to a former electrician and his wife, who hid 271 Picasso works in their garage for close to 40 years.
      
The court in the French Riviera town of Grasse found Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec guilty of possessing stolen goods, after a trial that made headlines in France and abroad.
      

Pablo Picasso’s pottery artworks are being auctioned off by Sotheby’s in London, March 18. Vases, plates, bowls and others, numbering more than 100 pieces of art, all hand-crafted and painted by the Spanish painter will be auctioned for prices ranging between 2,000 and 30,000 UK pounds.

Ibiza is synonymous with pulsating electronic music but when the British duo The Ting-Tings went to the Spanish island, they took inspiration not from the sweaty dance-floor but from the off-season oddities.
      

Famous fashion house Alexander McQueen held a gala before the grand opening of the “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Exhibition” in the V&A museum in London.

Famous models and celebs obviously attended the gala.

Oscar-winning Australian actress Cate Blanchett and her husband have adopted a daughter, their fourth child, the couple's management said March 7.
      
"The Upton family have adopted a baby girl," a statement issued on behalf of the pair said. "Her name is Edith Vivian Patricia Upton."       

One of Gustav Klimt's most famous paintings will not be returned to the heirs of its Jewish former owner in a case that has tested Austria's laws on restitution of looted art.
   

The 9th ?zmir International Puppet Days kicked in the western province on March 5.

This year, 40 puppet theater groups will perform 42 shows in 27 different venues within the festival program. Four exhibitions, one from Slovenia and another from Bulgaria, will host art lovers.