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Watching Big Brother

A photographic exhibition to mark world environment day opened in the National Museum on Tuesday, May 31, 2011, with the aim to portray the effects of the environment on living creatures, both human and animal, and their dependency on it, ... Read More

Watching Big Brother

Each of the two Ethiopian contestants participating in Big Brother Amplified has been nominated for eviction, but neither has been kicked out, four weeks into the 91 days it is meant to last. Despite the last man standing taking home 200,000 dollars, the mother of Hanni, one of the contestants, has mixed feelings about her daughter’s participation in the show, ... Read More

Fana Wogi Awards Innovation

Each of the two Ethiopian contestants participating in Big Brother Amplified has been nominated for eviction, but neither has been kicked out, four weeks into the 91 days it is meant to last. Despite the last man standing taking home 200,000 dollars, the mother of Hanni, one of the contestants, has mixed feelings about her daughter’s participation in the show,... Read More

BIG(GER) BROTHER 6

The sixth season of Big Brother started last week. While organisers do not even know what may be in store for the housemates as much is done at the discretion of Big Brother himself, it is set to be “amplified” with 26 contestants from 14 African countries and 200,000 dollars on the line, writes MIREILLE DE VILLIERS, SPECIAL TO FORTUNE..... Read More

Line Group Shows Unity in Diversity

A group art exhibition of contemporary works by the Line Art Group at the National Museum of Ethiopia sees the likes of Adamseged Michael, Biruk Mengistu, Girma Bulti, Mekoya Kiros, and Solomon Teshome find a coherent thread to join their diverse styles which range from realism to impressionism,... Read More

Chillin’ Out Weekend by the Pool

The temperatures in the capital are high at this time of year, and with no respite offered by occasional rain, residents are taking refuge at public swimming pools. They are fun places where anyone can cool down and relax... Read More

Audio -Photograph of City

At first, the idea of a sound exhibition seemed bizarre, but a visit to the 12&12 installation at the Goethe-Institut, located in Sidist Kilo, on Thursday, March 24, 2011, left one with a completely different view of everyday life. ... Read More

Hollywood Premiere for Local Film

The premiere of Pendulum was a highly anticipated and star studded event. The Millennium Hall was overrun by eager movie goers who pushed and shoved to get a seat in the jam-packed hall. But this did not prevent the film from falling flat, ... Read More

Art Appreciation’s Never-ending

Meant to create awareness of local art and a platform for people to appreciate it, the fifth exhibition of the works of local artists at Sidama Lodge offers something for every taste until Sunday... Read More

Modern Blends with Custom in Double Exhibit

Visitors at the opening of Lemma Guya’s exhibition at the National Museum (top) take photographs of some of the artworks depicting, from left: Emperor Yohannes, Emperor Menelik II, Emperor Haileselassie, Mengistu Hailemariam (Gen), and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Another exhibition in the same venue shows the work (bottom) of 20 Ethiopian artists with, from left: “Godana Tedadari” by Yonas Kenea, Girma Gebra’s “Baburu,” Skunder Bolggossian’s “Untitled,” and “Development and Progress” by Tadesse Gizaw. Read More

Ants Go Marching in Discarded Plastic Shoes

Seemingly unrelated themes meet and mix in a just opened art exhibition that juxtaposes nature’s hardest little workers with everyday object in a show where the old meets the new and they stand comfortably side by side, even mixing. Read More

Talks in Visual Language: Reinvented Script Visits Capital

The Amharic script stands at the centre of the art of Wosene Worke Kosrof, who opened his first exhibition in Ethiopia in 14 years on November 13, 2010, at the National Museum Gallery in Addis Abeba.... Read More