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Galleries’ exhibition shows the first steps, the notes and sketches, building towards a work of art What if you could peer into the mind of an artist, in the days leading up to his next piece of work? At Apparao Galleries’ ongoing exhibition, ‘Translucent Steps’, hang jottings, sketches and notes from the books of the late Bengali painter Ganesh Pyne.

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    A Charity art Exhibition is being organaised. Ongoing, till March 31, 11 am to 8 pm, Muse Art Gallery, Tank Bund.

  Scrounging scrapyards to make art, Haribaabu Naatesan infuses memory and spirituality into his sustainability argument Each time Haribaabu Naatesan would walk past the scrapyard near his home in Mumbai, he’d notice heaps and heaps of discarded computer motherboards. A little later, he found out more about them: From Saki Naka in Mumbai, this enormous load of electrical waste would

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Celebrating the next wave of cultural entrepreneurs who are making a case for local voices and ensuring new talent isn’t overlooked Art and culture have always had champions, but the last decade or so has seen a spurt in ideas, in initiatives, in cultural entrepreneurs. It is not a case of a new order replacing the old, but more a

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An ongoing exhibition maps the inspirational journey of Benode Behari Mukherjee To step into “Between Sight and Insight: Glimpses of Benode Behari Mukherjee” at both the Vadehra Galleries in Delhi is to be invited into the mapping of an inspirational odyssey that presents one of the greatest artists and educators in our country. Small piquant, large and medium, the drawings,

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Reddy’s prints appeal both to our visual and haptic senses Whirls and eddies and bombardments of subtle but striking colours embossed on a paper surface reflect the mysterious process of germination and birthing in nature, and myriad other experiences, in the works of Krishna Reddy (1925–2018), master printmaker, teacher and sculptor. It was at Santiniketan that the seeds of this

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      After ten years of labour, the Amar Nath Sehgal Private Collection is open to the public An artist’s life and the definition of his/her work often changes posthumously. It is then the responsibility of his/her subjects, audience, patrons and most importantly, the family to preserve and ensure that they live on. Today, we have the multimedia to

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  An ongoing exhibition maps the inspirational journey of Benode Behari Mukherjee To step into “Between Sight and Insight: Glimpses of Benode Behari Mukherjee” at both the Vadehra Galleries in Delhi is to be invited into the mapping of an inspirational odyssey that presents one of the greatest artists and educators in our country. Small piquant, large and medium, the

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Eighty artists have come together for an art-charity initiative ‘Tigers’ in Hyderabad Earlier this month, forest department officials photographed a tiger in the vicinity of Mahisagar. This spotting of the big cat in Gujarat after nearly three decades is reason to cheer. Meanwhile, consistent efforts towards tiger conservation has shown results (see infobox). However, conservationists are aware of the continuing

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  Support and sustenance to craft were defined by scholars from across the world at a seminar in DakshinaChitra Most of the scholars working in the field of various crafts, who took part in a seminar titled ‘Maker and Meaning : Craft and Society’ 20 years ago, returned to present papers on the status of the crafts and crafts people

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