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Amonkar: The singer with an angel’s voice

Born in Kaliaganj in Malda district of West Bengal, his hilly hometown and the countryside has had a profound impact on his work.

07 Apr 2017 2:17 AM

While artists from Kerela are almost self-conscious in their use of high—strung colours, artists from Rajasthan are so comfortable using seemingly clashing colours for they know eventually colours find their own balance.

What is all that colour about?

Colours have meaning or are symbolic of specific things, situations and icons.

23 Mar 2017 3:35 AM

Many of the well-known and not so well-known stories from Hindu mythology come back to the audience as it admires the paintings by Makhan Saha at his art show called Know The Known Epics, curated by Sandeep Sen.

Art, an ‘epic’ narration

Several paintings, dance, theatre & music performances, which derive inspiration from centuries-old epics, speak of the past in modern ways.

16 Mar 2017 2:46 AM

Susmita Misra, a market research professional; Sonali Dhawan, entrepreneur; Rajdipa Behura, lawyer; Manisha Gawade, artist; Susmita Verma Mohanty, entrepreneur.

Wrapped in the magic of sari

Call it revival or making a fashion statement, in the last few years, more women from the younger generation have been sporting the sari.

09 Mar 2017 9:24 AM

Girls perform a dance to celebrate the spring season

Time to hop into spring

A number of classical renditions and traditional paintings are inspired from the spring season.

02 Feb 2017 6:20 AM

There are just a handful of artists working with glass in India despite our long heritage. The reasons are not far to seek — non-availability of infrastructure and disinterest of industry in creating glass works.

Pieces of glass that reflect different faces of art

The play of light through glass with refractions and reflections give a strange mysterious quality to the works.

27 Jan 2017 1:00 AM

Gopi’s abstractionism is almost instantly identifiable as square, and rectangular grids form a dominant part of his paintings.

A way from illusion, to art

Gopi’s exhibition titled A Symphony of Abstracts is truly like a “Meditative Silence” that the artist refers to in his note.

19 Jan 2017 5:33 AM

The economic situation of the world is directly related to the health of the art across the world.

Art under imbalance sheets

This year there have been fewer shows that elicit great excitement.

12 Jan 2017 6:53 AM

As anyone with the slightest of knowledge of farming knows, there are long periods of hiatus when there is nothing to be done except waiting for sowing or reaping or hoeing.

Life and living on the edge

These seasonal workers constitute a large section of craft workers.

05 Jan 2017 6:06 AM

Sharon Lowen (left) and Sonal Mansingh at a sari symposium

Artists gone by, but art remains

The foremost bunny that comes out of the mixed bag is that finally the bogey of the galleries is done and over with.

29 Dec 2016 4:59 AM

A collage of people on the ‘Six yards and 365 days’ (Photo: Facebook Group)

It’s not too late yet to say ‘sari’

Earlier this week, its founder-chairperson, author and poet Sunita Buddhiraja, actually wore her 365th sari on the forum.

15 Dec 2016 6:29 AM

The Delhi International Arts Festival has become increasingly global in its scale

Delhi International Arts Festival enters 10th year

The programmes covered a wide gamut of performances ranging from classical music, world music, band music and Sufi music and dance.

08 Dec 2016 3:02 AM

When silence is golden

If the art is coming out of silence within you, not pre-thought, pre-planned but spontaneous then it goes on to surprise the artist.

01 Dec 2016 2:39 AM

No point in empty pontification

Stakeholders of the arts — both visual and performing — need to take forward various aspects that affect.

24 Nov 2016 6:29 AM

In camera era, clock is ‘clicking’ for landscape art

It is what you do with a brush which matters and that is exactly the role a camera must play in the creation.

17 Nov 2016 6:09 AM

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