Feel the snow

Visitors touch ‘Cold Painting’, an artwork by Moldavian artist Pavel Braila displayed at the Dvortsovaya (Palace) square in St. Petersburg, during the 'Manifesta 10' European Biennial of Contemporary Art . Pavel Braila presented his performance using the snow which he had collected the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. 

Music fest

Workers roll out the red carpet in front of the festival house on the “Green Hill” prior to the Bayreuth music festival in Bayreuth, southern Germany. The prestigious month-long summer music fest is dedicated to the works of German composer Richard Wagner and is on till August 28 this year.
Photos: AFP

Sand art

A man looks at sand statues of Sejong the Great, the fourth king of Joseon, who oversaw the creation of Hangul at the Yokohama Sand Sculpture Exhibition. The exhibition is on till November 3, in Yokohama, suburb of Tokyo. The statues were made of more than 1,000-ton sand to show histories of Japan, China and South Korea

Puppet show

A giant puppet Grandmother is seen lying in a bed in St Georges Hall in Liverpool, north west England, ahead of a production by French theatre company Royal de Luxe. The puppets, which visited the city in 2012, returned to roam the streets of the city in a performance based around memories of August 1914, marking 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War.