Tag: artists

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel on Saturday and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often "illusory and deceitful."

The Pope told the gathering of hundreds of painters, sculptors, architects, poets and directors, held beneath the vaulted ceiling of the chapel painted by Michelangelo, that he wanted to "renew the Church's friendship with the world of art."

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Bill Cosby doesn't rap or sing on his latest project, but he gathered together people who do. "Bill Cosby Presents the Cosnarati: State of Emergency" is a socially conscious hip-hop CD that focuses on the critical issues affecting young people.
The independent project will launch Monday (October 19) during a virtual town hall meeting in New York.
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Backstage, the tension is growing before the broadcast of the first Semi-Final tonight. Eurovision.tv had an exclusive last-minute word with the performers for their final outlook on the show.

Eurovision.tv met some of the Eurovision 2009 participants on their promotional tour and tested them on their knowledge about Eurovision and Moscow. Meet the artists from Spain, Montenegro, Romania, UK, Ireland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Armenia, Albania, Ukraine, Poland, Iceland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Cyprus, Lithuania and Belgium.