**HSBC Malta Foundation breathes new life into Anton Inglott masterpiece at MUŻA** The HSBC Malta Foundation has announced a €15,000 grant to restore a significant work by Maltese modernist painter Anton Inglott, marking another crucial investment in the island’s cultural heritage that will see the masterpiece return to public display at MUŻA after years in…
**Aldo Micallef-Grimaud’s Legacy Comes Home: Landmark Retrospective Opens at MUŻA** Valletta—The city’s baroque balconies were still dripping from an early-summer shower when the doors of MUŻA swung open on Friday night for the first comprehensive retrospective of Aldo Micallef-Grimaud, the Maltese artist who painted the island’s post-war soul in hues of terracotta and cobalt. Curated…
RAW: Artist Veronica Lee on the beauty of imperfection In a sun-drenched studio overlooking Valletta’s Grand Harbour, Veronica Lee dips a cracked ceramic bowl into a basin of seawater she collected at dawn from Sliema’s shoreline. The bowl, once destined for a Żabbar charity-shop shelf, will become part of her new series “Kisses of the…
**In the Hush of the Harbour: How “Wens, Comfortable Silence” is Teaching Valletta to Listen Again** Valletta’s streets rarely stay quiet for long. Between the brass bands rehearsing in the Upper Barrakka gardens, the ferry horns echoing across Grand Harbour and the clatter of pastizzi trays at dawn, the capital’s soundscape is as layered as…
Realms of Colour: How Elaine Mifsud’s Latest Exhibition is Painting Valletta Back to Life By Hot Malta Staff Valletta’s narrow limestone streets have always echoed with footsteps, but this month they’re humming with colour. Inside the vaulted halls of the National Museum of Fine Arts—freshly rebranded as MUŻA—Elaine Mifsud’s solo show “Realms of Colour” has…
**Breaking Through Boundaries: The Art Detained by Customs** When local artist Sarah Mallia opened her package at MaltaPost’s Qormi sorting office last month, she expected to find the vibrant ceramic sculptures she’d commissioned from a Tunisian artisan. Instead, she was greeted by customs officials who confiscated the pieces, claiming they “didn’t align with import regulations”…
**Dreams from Malta: Four Visual Narratives Capture Island Life Through Local Eyes** In a dimly lit Valletta studio, four Maltese photographers are transforming personal visions into collective memory. Their exhibition “Dreams from Malta,” opening this Friday at Spazju Kreattiv, offers more than aesthetic pleasure—it’s a mirror held up to contemporary Maltese identity, reflecting both aspirations…
Horses of Salt and Wind: How Malta’s Coastline Became an Open-air Sculpture Stable By Hot Malta staff On a blustery March evening, the stretch of golden limestone between Għajn Tuffieħa and Ġnejna Bay looks less like a beach and more like a theatre. Waves slap the cliffs, the scent of thyme hangs in the salt…
On a windswept evening in Birżebbuġa’s Pretty Bay, a circle of children are painting storm-surge lines directly onto the promenade’s concrete. Their chalk strokes start at ankle height, then climb—one metre, two metres, four—until the fluorescent scribbles reach the shuttered kiosks. Passers-by stop, take photos, frown, then nod. The piece, called “High Tide 2050”, is…
