Saibal Chatterjee Writer-director Raam Reddy’s second film, ‘The Fable’, starring Manoj Bajpayee, is among 15 titles in the competitive Encounters section of the upcoming 74th Berlin Film Festival (February 15 to 25). ‘Shambhala’ is Nepal’s first film at the fest....
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Malvika Kaul The film begins with Pandit Nityanand Haldipur (renowned flautist) opening the door of legendary classical musician Annapurna Devi’s Mumbai home. Well known as a recluse, Annapurna may have given fewer than three interviews in her 91 years. Only...
Sarika Sharma Kiran Nadar, chairperson of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi, has been honoured with the Padma Shri this year. She began collecting art in the 1980s, opening a museum in a mall first and...
Monica Arora Delhi-based artist Gogi Saroj Pal passed away on January 27, leaving behind a rich legacy of her artworks. Proficient at working with mediums as diverse as installation, painting, gouache, oil, sculpture, graphic printing, ceramics, jewellery, weaving and photography,...
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry In the year 1997, I was in London, working on a production. Wherever I went or whoever I met was talking about a play called ‘Oraculos’, performed by artistes from Colombia. ‘Oraculos’ was a totally unexpected experience...
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Monica Arora The second edition of the Indian Ceramics Triennale is based upon the theme ‘Common Ground’ and comes nearly six years after the inaugural edition held in Jaipur in 2018. The Triennale (January 19-March 31) will be hosted at...
Shailaja Khanna Known as the Nightingale of South, Bombay Jayashri was nominated for an Oscar award in 2013 for her lullaby in ‘Life of Pi’ and awarded the Padma Shri in 2021. In March 2023, she was nominated for...
Sreevalsan Thiyyadi The dusty plains of upper Ganges were poised for yet another monsoon when an illustrious musical family in Rohilkhand region got a child whose singing prowess was soon evident as a toddler. That apart, Rashid Khan was a...
Lalit Mohan Dharamsala, January 8 Jaiveer Chadha, a Class XII student of Heritage International Experiential School, Gurugram, Haryana, led an inspiring initiative to support artists who wish to learn the traditional art of Kangra miniature paintings. Jaiveer came to know...
Malvika Kaul T he treasure of ancient Indian paintings has been mostly inaccessible to art lovers. Age has damaged and even destroyed several creations discovered in temples and caves. Filmmaker, photographer and art historian Binoy K Behl’s exhibition, ‘Lost...
Aparna Banerji It was five decades ago that Ustad Nishat Khan debuted on the Harivallabh stage with his father, the sitar and surbahar legend Ustad Imrat Khan. Their gharana, Imdadkhani, has been serving classical music for seven generations. Nishat...
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry Space is both tangible and atmospheric. The famous quote, ‘You could cut the atmosphere with a knife,’ is self-explanatory. It could be a furniture-laden space, a meditative space, an art gallery, a black box, a proscenium stage,...
Sahiba Cuccria As you bid goodbye to 2023, your Spotify playlist isn’t the only thing that’s trending. The sartorial world of fashion had its own hits and a few misses. We bring you some noteworthy trends. Nora Fatehi dons a...
Shailaja Khanna A recent sarod concert, presented by Pt Basant Kabra as a tribute to Lalita Khanna, the late musicologist, in Delhi, reminded one of an interesting link that the Senia gharana and a prince from Kapurthala share with...
Krishnaraj Iyengar Only music has truly transcended barriers after Partition. While Pakistanis love Lata Mangeshkar’s ethereal renditions, the dreamy, soft voice of Ustad Hussain Bakhsh Gullu moves many Indians. His ‘rula dene wali awaaz’ (voice that makes you weep)...
Sameer Singh Shimla, December 20 Artwork (paintings) depicting local culture and art on tunnel walls in different parts of the city have been drawing attention of tourists and local residents alike these days. The aesthetic makeover of these tunnels is...
Chandigarh, December 18 Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann released a biography titled ‘Sobha Singh Artist: Life & Legacy’ written by Dr Hurday Paul Singh at Punjab Bhawan here today. The Chief Minister said that Sobha Singh was a...
Nonika Singh HIS imagery is vibrant, his colour palette exuberant. Madan Lal is that rare artist from Chandigarh who has not let limited opportunities hem his flight. Like the birds that dot his canvases, he soars in the vast expanse...
Chryselle D’Silva Dias FROM classical to street genres, national to international, traditional to technology-driven, popular to endangered — a variety of dance forms promises to entertain audiences at the Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF). Being held from December 15-23 at Panaji...
Monica Arora ‘Echoes of Unfathomed Worlds’, artist Jagannath Panda’s latest show, currently on at the Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi, is a curation of 26 works that vary in mediums and scale and include a plethora of ideas in...
Lahore, December 6 Hungary plans to turn Hungarian-Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil’s Ganga Ram Mansions on The Mall here into a museum, a top diplomat of the country said as several art lovers and intellectuals gathered for the unveiling of a...
Sarika Sharma FROM his early series for Doordarshan to his latest venture ‘Dhai Aakhar’, which competed in the Indian Panorama section at the recent International Film Festival of India (IFFI), director Praveen Arora’s 30-year career has been dominated by adaptation...
Renu Sud Sinha NEELESH Misra has been telling stories even before his one-of-a-kind storytelling show on radio, ‘Yaadon Ka Idiot Box’, took off more than a decade back, though the format and platforms have been different. The former journalist has...
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry LET us imagine an invisible line drawn across the length of a rehearsal space. Two groups, unknown to each other, tentatively walk towards each other. Watchful, unsure and hesitant. A verbal language that is unfamiliar to both...
Monica Arora The vibrant tapestry of artist Jatin Das’ creations comes alive at a retrospective of his works being held at the sprawling National Gallery of Modern Art, nestled amidst the verdant surroundings of Lutyens’ Delhi. An encapsulation of his...
Krishnaraj Iyengar For millions in India and across the globe, the strains of the santoor have offered solace, especially when its long-haired maverick with his striking personality meditatively caressed its hundred strings. The late Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma’s legacy lives...
Nonika Singh Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a substitute for human intelligence; it is a tool to amplify human creativity and ingenuity,” says American computer scientist Fei-Fei Li. Recently, a deepfake video of actor Rashmika Mandanna went viral But is...
Amritsar, November 21 Pablo Picasso’s famous anti-war painting Guernica, about a town in northern Spain that was bombed by Nazis, is acclaimed for its creative commentary on the horrors of war. Art, as they say, need not always be...
It happens ever so often, but I am still not able to get over my shock whenever someone who I regard as possessed of some learning — not merely literate — or has even a faint trace of interest in...
This is a book of little essays among which there is no order; no logical sequence; no given theme connects the pieces; they also appear dated perhaps. Why, then, one might legitimately ask, would anyone be interested in reading them?...
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