French photographer Pierre Gonnord arrives in Sofia for an exhibition called Memento Vivere, organisers announced.

At the new Ayia Napa Underwater Sculpture Museum (MUSAN), located in the Pernera area of Ayia Napa, visitors, both swimmers with mask and flippers and divers, will be able to tour around an underwater forest, the first of its kind in the world.

The exhibition Thorny Summer presents four artists based in Berlin - Vikenti Komitski, Jazoo Jang, Francisco Montoya Cazarez and Ties Ten Bosch. Different by origin and authorial pursuits, they are united by the free-thinking of the contemporary Berlin scene, which has become a focal point of their careers and acquaintances.

The winner of the prestigious 2021 BAZA Award for young contemporary artist is Marta Djourina - one of the participants in the exhibition Brave New Earth: Looking Forward Through Memories, organised by the State Cultural Institute with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Berlin Artist Association and the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Belin.

UNESCO announced in a tweet on Tuesday that it had added the French Mediterranean city of Nice to its world heritage list, AFP reported. The United Nation's cultural organisation calls Nice, famous for its mild climate, the "Winter resort town of the Riviera". Nice joins France's more than 40 world heritage sites which include the banks of the river Seine in Paris, the Amiens cathedral, the Mont Saint Michel and stretches of the Loire Valley.

Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers are among 13 authors competing for the prestigious Booker literary prize, news wires reported.

Not only visitors but also portraits wear masks at the Easel and Camera contemporary art gallery in the Egyptian capital of Cairo. The exhibition Pandemic by Mohamed Bassuony reminds us, with some irony and sense of humour, about the profound changes brought on by the year 2020.

Dancing is like the wind - it appears suddenly and disappears quickly. Unexpected and uninvited, surprising and short-lived, dancing cannot be captured, kept, imprisoned or owned. The only thing that is left in its wake is a memory. The dancing body is a sculpture of movement, a shaping of the space around us, a drawing of symbols, poetry in motion that shouts. Dancing connects the human form to other bodies, the thought with other thoughts, and the heart with other hearts, says choreographer Vladimir Angelov in this remarkable interview.

Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms and Symphony No. 3 “Scottish” by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy will be played at the Summer Stage Borissova Gradina in Sofia on 29 July at 8pm. The Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra will perform on the open air stage in the company of violinist Mario Hossen and under the baton of Maestro Nayden Todorov. The event is part of Sofia Philharmonic's summer programme Share the Music.

Venice and its lagoon environment avoided placement on UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites in danger on Thursday following Italy’s ban on massive cruise ships traveling through the city’s historic center, AP reported. UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, meeting in China, instead has asked Italy to submit by December 2022 an update on efforts to protect Venice from excessive tourism, population decline and other issues that will be considered at a meeting in 2023. Preservation groups immediately criticized the decision.