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Three Indian artists to feature in Asia art triennial

100 Pipers Legacy Project attempts to keep alive legacy of India’s dying arts

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Share:The project touches upon six art forms and engages with local artists from these art communities to curate a reflection of their version of what ‘goodness’ means to them. These six unique designs have been adorned on the Seagram’s 100 Pipers Limited Edition Pack for 2019 Scotch Whisky brand Seagram’s 100 Pipers has started a […]

India’s Tribal Artisans Fighting Odds to Keep 5,000 Year Old Metal Art Alive

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Share:“Dhokra,” the art of lost wax casting, has its roots in the 5,000-year-old Indus Valley civilization. The art is most popular among the tribes of the Bastar region in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, who are swimming against the tide to keep the art alive. Deep inside the Dandakaranya forest in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, tribal artisans […]

Indian Oil Corporation’s biennial art exhibition – The Canvas Code

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Share:Indian Oil Corporation’s biennial art exhibition – The Canvas Code – will open here on October 24, officials said on Wednesday. The exhibition, an initiative to promote young artists, will showcase a wide array of paintings by over 90 artists from all over India at the Jehangir Art Gallery. The six-day event will be inaugurated by painter Bose Krishnamachari. IOC […]

Mumbai hosts Korea-India joint art exhibition

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Share:MUMBAI, Oct. 16 (Yonhap) — Artists from South Korea and India are displaying their works at a joint exhibition in Mumbai, the capital of the western Indian state of Maharashtra. The inaugural Mumbai Biennale, titled “Beyond the Frames,” opened at Sir JJ School of Art on Saturday for a six-day run, bringing together 120 South […]

Feat of clay – India’s first ceramics triennale

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Share:Ceramics, long relegated to a lower status in the world of art, are gaining hard-earned ground at India’s first ceramics triennale Earthenware, in the Indian subcontinent, dates back many thousand years to the Indus Valley civilisation. So abundant, ubiquitous and disposable has been the clay pot that rarely has it been considered to be anything […]

Remembering the legacy of Bhupen Khakhar

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Share:Remembering the legacy of Bhupen Khakhar It’s a dismal truth that LGBT; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex people in India have to deal with too many social and legal difficulties while they yearn to breathe free air in their own country. Though there has been a drastic change of mindset among people especially […]

Opposition leaders protest plan to move Air India art collection to NGMA

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Share:The Ministry of Culture clarified Wednesday that the Centre zeroed in on NGMA to transfer the collection by way of donation by Air India since it is the only national institution with a mandate to collect and display Modern art. Opposition leaders have thrown their weight behind protests against the Centre’s plan to move the […]

One of India’s leading artists is offering free art on Instagram for anyone to download and own

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Share:Nalini Malani is creating animations on her iPad and sharing them on social media. In May, artist Nalini Malani was working on a 25-metre wall drawing for Castello Di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Rivoli, Italy, which will host a retrospective of her work later this year. In between work, whenever she took a […]

A Primeval Punch: Folk artists set stage on fire

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Share: THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For early birds at the National Folk Festival venue at the Kanakakunnu Palace grounds, there was something magical on offer on Friday. Pounding at the drums hanging from their necks, a bunch of folk artistes exhibited a stellar performance, careening along to the magnetic tempo of accompanying folk music. They were recreating tappeta […]

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