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    Floating Piers: Homage to The Spectacle of Worthless Grandiose H. A. Anil Kumar ‘Floating Piers’ (2016) by Jean Claude and Christo was a work that was seemingly functional for sixteen days, as long as it existed. This bridge also served…

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    The Indywood Film Carnival Hema Iyer Ramani Hyderabad is the perfect setting for any film festival because the Ramoji Film city has been designed to provide the ambience for not only film shoots, but also to host mega-scale events. The…

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    A Monthly Feature On Art Events in Chennai V.V. Ramani Meera – The Soul Divine Meera the poet princess is an epitome of bhakti and total surrender, and her life story that is so strongly embedded in the minds of…

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    Go Wild for Life : World Environment Day, 2016 Apurva Sinha “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein Tender human relations nurture in the lap of nature, and it is nature that gives…

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    Renaissances of Public Art: PUBLICA 2016 by Surbhi Modi and Jaipur Travel Photo Festival Santanu Ganguly There is a good sign or a sort of revolution that has started in the field of public art. Not only artists but also…

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    “Emotion In Motion” Striking Shades of Human Emotions Showcased By Celebrated Singaporean Artist P. Gnana at Plush Art Spice Gallery, The Metropolitan Hotel & Spa Art & Deal Correspondent On Friday, January 15, 2016, Art Spice, the plush art gallery…

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    The 4th Dharamshala International Film Festival Santanu Ganguly The 4th edition of the Dharamshala International Film Festival took place in McLeod Ganj from 5-8 November 2015. Longtime residents of Dharamshala, filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam initiated the film festival…

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    “Mezzaterra ” 12th Solo Exhibition of Indrapramit Roy Anindya Kanti Biswas The exhibition titled, ‘Mezzaterra’, artworks of the famous Indrapramit Roy, transformed Kolkata into a mystical land. ‘Mezzaterra’, as the name suggest means either middle or common ground. According to…

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    Fundraiser for the Elephants of India Art & Deal Correspondent Elephants are folk divinities in three major religions, Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Gautama the Buddha descended in the form of a white elephant, mothers of Jain Tirathankars saw elephants in…

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    Binoy Varghese-Art Bahrain Uma Nair Binoy Varghese is at best an artist who combines Classical and Modern Painting Skills to create hyper realist works. His works at ART BAHRAIN are produced with his superb, signature techniques: the layering of rich…

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    Art & The City: A Venue of Representational Dilemma H.A. Anil Kumar While offering the hard copy of the invitation to his first solo show at Alliance Francoise (Bengaluru) recently (September 2015), Saleem Shoyab, a recent post-graduate from the College…

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    Ahoy Aboard! From the Galleries at India Art Festival 2015 Sushma Sabnis The eagerly awaited India Art Festival 2015, at the Nehru Centre, Mumbai brings to the art lovers an annual art and aesthetic platter with art galleries and individual…

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    A Sneak peak to the Art Deal Auction House- Summer Auction Apurva sinha Art is an exemplary medium to express intricate socio-cultural foundations. It is an apt creation of imageries portraying the struggle of many novel civilizations, and their amalgamations….

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    Art Education in the Age of Digital Reproduction H.A. Anil Kumar The main question with majority of Indian art education, today, excepting the genuinely renowned ones is whether to accept it as an irreversibly failed institution or a construct which…

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    Warring Bodies Looking into the nature of Performance praxis in Bangalore and its silent quirk against Text R. Dhanya To identify the aspirations and the outcome of the Bangalore performance enterprise, I would like to open a discourse on the…

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    Giving Creatively Lina Vincent Sunish Artist In Residence programs and other residency opportunities allow artists, academicians, curators, and various creative individuals, time and space away from their usual environment and obligations. They provide a time of reflection, research, presentation and…

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    Forms of Devotion: The Spiritual in Indian Art On an international tour Santanu Ganguly The Museum of Sacred Art (MOSA), Belgium organized Forms of Devotion: The Spiritual in Indian Art, a multidimensional arts project conceptualized around the notion of the…

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    Performers At The Sacred Arts A Festival Curated By Teamwork Arts Santanu Ganguly Vocal Rasta has been active for the past few months and was recently seen at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival and Sounds of Freedom where they performed…

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    Revisiting Deepor Beel Pranamita Borgohain Revisiting Deepor Beel, a travelling workshop under the festival Kala Samanvayaa 2015 was held at Deepor Beel village, Near Guwahati from 13th – 16th January. The workshop was a site specific interdisciplinary art practice where…

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    Goa Photo Festival, 2015 Nikhil Padgaonkar From the 25th of February till the 7th of March, the residents of Panaji are in for a treat. For during this time, the city itself will become a platform for exhibiting some of…

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    3rd Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) Santanu Ganguly The Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) started just three years ago but, within a small span of time, it has become one of India’s most important and most discussed film festivals. In…

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    Kochi Muziris Biennale-2014 Uma Prakash Uma Prakash appreciates the efforts and outcome of putting together a vivid assortment of unique and innovative works by 94 artists as she takes a closer look at some of them in the second edition…

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    Problems and possibilities of Museumisation and Art Pedagogy: Chitrakala Parishath-50 H. A. Anil Kumar In one of his later Kannada films ‘Dhruvathaare’, released in the late 1980s, the protagonist Rajkumar happens to be a painter, whose father was a farmer….

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    Stri Avalekha Priyanka Tagore 2015 has already been a year of many changes. An inexperienced party swept up the nation by storm with the best polling rate in the history of Indian politics. India opened the ICC Cricket World Cup…

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    Art for Concern: Creating Value Through Art Aahana Dhar Art is not always for art’s sake, as demonstrated by Concern India Foundation’s ‘Art for Concern’ exhibitions being held successfully across the country for more than a decade now. An art…

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    Revealing an Eerie Nostalgia- ‘A Yank ’s Memories of Calcutta’ Nandini Moitra Chowringhee Square, The Mohammedian Mosque, Jama Masjid is shown at the left. This is actually one of the quiet moments when GI trucks, taxis, bicycles and other modes…

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    Jaipur Art Summit Yasra Daud Khoker In the 16th and 17th century Europe, it was considered upscale to have a ‘Wunderkammern’; a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ or a ‘wonder chamber’ in your house. This cabinet was a room that displayed unique,…

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    The summit of art – intellectua ls : Artists’ Workshop at SSVAD Anirban Dhar “Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among animals: so that, unlike them, he is not a figure…

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    Patriarch Of The Palette: M. F. Husain Uma Nair Uma Nair elucidates how the final series made by M.F. Husain, India’s most prolific artist, showcased at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum celebrate the ‘Indian-ness’ in him. Indian Civilization is…

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    Der Langste Tag / The Longest Day. 16 hours non-stop outdoor performances Irene Müller & Dorothea Rust Performance art doesn’t need to confine itself to festivals or an institutional context, it creates its own space accepting and engaging the viewer….

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    One Day Art Camp By The K. K. Hebbar Art Foundation Lina Vincent Sunish The K K Hebbar Art Foundation was established in 1991-92 to promote art and culture with special emphasis on young and talented artists. With this in…

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    Nauka Puja In Barak Valley, Assam Dr. Amalendu Bhattacharjee Barak Valley wears a festive look, rejoicing and singing in time of Nauka Puja, a special religious ceremony. Dr. Amalendu Bhattacharjee reports. Nauka Puja is a very popular festival of rural…

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    Ruminations……Audiences and Other Things Lina Vincent Sunish In this fluctuating art market and economic slump ‘viewers’ become a priority, not only for monetary aspect but also for retaining and spreading the value of ‘art’. Lina Vincent Sunish addresses this issue…

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    Dhaka Art Summit Uma Prakash Second edition of Dhaka Art Summit served not only as a perfect platform for South-Asian art but also a treat for the artistically curious mind with a variety of curated photography shows, performance art shows…

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