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The majestic and distinguished personality of Tagore has attracted numerous painters, sculptors and photographers the world over. Among the celebrated artists who have attempted to portray a reflection of this personality are the poet’s elder brother Jyotindranath Tagore, his nephews Gaganendranath and Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Ganguly, Jamini Roy, Mukul Dey, Muirhead, William Rothenstein, Za Fein, Boris Gionglev and Atul Bose. In spite of their unquestionable achievement, the luminous personality of the great poet still remains elusive. Thou hast made me endless, the ongoing exhibition of portraits of Tagore in oil and pastel by Tapan Ray Choudhuri, presents a selection of 25 paintings depicting varying moods of the poet. The artist does not make any claim to characterise his subject through his paintings, which are based on a wide assembly of photographs of the poet. Rather, he humbly acknowledges that his works are intended to share the unmixed delight that he himself experienced while painting them.
lEvent: An exhibition of Tagore’s portraits by Tapan Ray Choudhuri lWhen: Till May 14; 3 pm - 8 pm lWhere: Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road
Event: An exhibition of Tagore’s portraits by Tapan Ray Choudhuri When: Till May 14; 3 pm - 8 pm
Where: Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road
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May 13 - 18 at Birla Academy of Art & Cukture, 2nd floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: A group show of paintings and sculptures hosted by Roddur. Inauguration today at 6 pm.
May 13 - 19 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: Miniatures II, an exhibition of affordable small works by Arjun Bhattacharjee, Arpita Pradhan, Biplab Sarkar, Chandranath Saha, Debabrata Sarkar, Nandita Mukherjee, Nitai Das, Nabendu Sengupta, Pradip Das, Sudipta Dutta and Utpal Dutta.
May 13 - 19 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Prekshapat presents an exhibition of paintings, graphics and ceramics by Dipanjan Bagli, Manik Kumar Ghosh, Partha Kabiraj, Saheb Dey, Swarup Nandi and Tusar Kanti Pradhan. Shuvaprasanna will inaugurate the show today at 5.30 pm.
Till May 14 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #2475 2275; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of portraits of Rabindranath Tagore in oil and pastel by Dr Tapan Ray Choudhuri.
Till May 15 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street, #2229 3886; 2 pm - 7.30 pm: Endless Resonances — an exhibition of recent paintings by well-known artists.
Till May 15 at Gallery K2, 35 Lansdowne Terrace; 11 am - 7 pm: Beyond Figuration, an exhibition of works by Sunando Basu, Vishal Bhand, Susmit Biswas and Shilajit Ghosh.
Till May 17 at Gallery 79, 79 Raja Basanta Roy Road, 1st floor, #2466 2837; 4 pm - 7 pm: Mystic Colours, an exhibition of watercolours and collage by Shiladitya Ganguly and Probal Das.
Till May 17 (weekdays) at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Stretch of Imagination: A show of exclusive artworks by 30 well-known artists.
Till May 17 at C.C. Laha Centenary Fine Arts Gallery, 7 Chittaranjan Avenue, 1st floor, #6521 6931; 1 pm - 7 pm: Paintings by Badal paul, Soibal Dutta, Tarun Banerjee, Subhrakanti Mitra, Shukla Chakrabarty, Indira Halder, Nabakumar Chakrabarty, Suprabhat Bhaduri and Panchanan Das.
Till May 18 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 12 noon - 8 pm: Rabi Art Gallery presents an exhibition of the works of well-known artists.
Till May 18 at Starmark, South City Mall; 11 am - 9 pm: Emami Chisel Art, in association with Starmark, presents Art on the Easel — an exhibition of paintings featuring the works of Arup Ratan Chowdhury.
Till May 19 (except Sunday) at Boi-Chitra, College Street Coffee House, 2nd floor, #2241 6845: 3 pm - 7.30 pm: Torture, Protest, Peace — an exhibition of paintings by Saumen Guha.
Till May 25 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road, #2455 6942/43; 2 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of works by Somnath Hore.
Till May 25 at The Promenade lounge, Taj Bengal; 10 am - 11 pm: The Doorways — a solo exhibition of recent works by Subuddha Ghosh. The artist will be painting live from 3 pm to 6 pm.
Till June 7 (except Sundays) at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani, #2290 2274; 11 am - 7 pm, Mondays (2 pm - 7 pm): Sculptures by Meera Mukherjee.
DRAMA
May 13 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Natya-Anan presents Hirak Rajar Deshe. Direction: Chandan Sen.
May 14 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Purba Paschim presents Tagore’s Chaturanga, directed by Bratya Basu.
May 15 at Academy of Fine Arts & May 18 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Shohan presents Helmet, a comedy directed by Anish Ghosh.
May 16 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents Pakhi (Story: Leela Mazumder; Dir: Swatilekha Sengupta) and Nana Ranger Din (Drama: Anton Chekov/Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay; Dir: Rudraprasad Sengupta).
May 18 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.45 pm: Gandhar presents Kachher Manush, directed by Gautam Haldar.
SYMPOSIUM
May 13 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 5.30 pm: Symposium (in English, Bengali and Hindi): Sri Ramakrishna’s Lay Disciples. Opening song by Swami Ritananda. Participants: Swami Atmajnananda, Swami Satyamayananda, Swami Divyarupananda, Swami Sarvapriyananda and Swami Jagannathananda. President: Swami Sarvabhutananda.
TALK
May 13 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Atmabodhananda will discuss in Bengali Sri Sri Mayer Katha.
May 13 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7.15 pm: Swami Vamananandaji will speak on Spiritual Retreat and Guided Meditation.
PERFORMING ARTS
May 13 at Rabindra Sadan campus; 5.30 pm: An evening of songs and recitation as part of Tagore’s birth anniversary celebration. Participants: Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, Indrani Mukhopadhyay, Purba Dam, Aditi Sengupta, Shikha Basu, Chandrabali Rudra Dutta. Sanghamitra Gupta, Jayanti Soren, Sukanya Nath, Abhijit uha, Achin Mukhopadhyay and others in songs, and Tapas Nag, Narayan Dasgupta, Ramchandra Pal, Samrat Dutta, Reshmi Choudhury, debesh Choudhury, Srabanti Maitra, Chaina Chattopadhyay, Manasi Sen Bandyopadhyay and Anupam Chattopadhyay in recitation.
May 13 at Rabindra Sadan; 5.30 pm: As part of Tagore’s birth anniversary celebrations, Sambarta presents drama Rinshodh (Direction: Sunil Das) to be followed by dance-drama Shapmochan (Direction: Subhasis Bhattacharya and Susmita Bhattacharya) presented by Kalakshetram.
May 15 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: An evening of classical music featuring Indradeep Ghosh (violin) with Ujjal Bharati (tabla), and Kumar Mukherjee (vocal) with Ashok Mukherjee (tabla) and Sanatan Goswami (harmonium).
PHOTOGRAPHS
Till May 30 (except Sundays) at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindusthan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Portraits of a Director — an exhibition of photographs on Satyajit Ray by Asit Poddar.
Till May 31 (except Mondays) at Bose Pacia Kolkata, Stephens Court, 18 Park Street, #40010148; 11 am - 7 pm: Bose Pacia Kolkata Gallery, the Embassy of France in India and Alliance Française du Bengale host India by Magnum: Plural Perspectives, a projected exhibition by 14 photographers from Magnum Photos.
VARIETY
Till May 13 at Max Mueller Bhavan: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Calcutta presents film screenings, theatre collage and a symposium, 1968 Revisited: Ideological Dissent and Artistic Expression. Today, 4.30 pm: Screening of Calcutta 71 (Dir: Mrinal Sen); and at 6.30 pm: Screening of Forever Young (Dir: Ranjan Palit).
EXHIBITION
Till May 16 at P-249 Purna Das Road (Triangular Park; #24644027) and at CB 68 Salt Lake, Sector 1 (near CA Island towards PNB; #40043486): Darbari presents Summer Sizzlers, showcasing cool casual cotton kurtis, skirts, wrap arounds, kaftans, saris and suits for ladies, and funky shirts and kurtas for gents. Also, a variety of handloom fabrics, sourced from all over the country.
Till May 15 at 105 Southern Avenue, 2nd floor, near Lake Kali Bari, #98311 97704; 11 am - 6 pm: Exhibition of new summer collection of suits, tunics, saris and blouses by Richa Kanoria.
IN MEMORIAM
May 13 at Tapan Memorial Hall, 37A/B Sadananda Road; 6.30 pm: Niva Arts organises a memorial meet to pay tribute to noted theatre-person Ganesh Mukhopadhyay.
FILM SHOW
Till May 14 at Nandan II: Films Division, Government of India and Nandan, West Bengal Film Centre, jointly present MIFF in Kolkata, a festival of award-winning films from Mumbai International Film Festival for documentary, short and animation, held biennially. This festival showcases some of the finest cinematic works realised in the last four years throughout the world. Today, 4 pm: One Day in People’s Poland (Poland, 58 min, Dir: Maciej Drygas) and Vietnam Symphony (Australia, 52 min, Dir: Tom Zubrycki); at 6.30 pm: View from a Grain of Sand (USA, 82 min., Dir: Meena Nanji), Bare Handed (Belgium, 26 min, Dir: Thierry Knauff) and Home Delivery (Spain, 12 min., Dir: Elio Ouiroga).
WORKSHOP
May 16 at Kornash, The Lifestyle Management School, 139B Rashbehari Avenue: Workshop on developing an insight into choosing the right life-partner.
May 16 - 18 at Starmark, 3 Lord Sinha Road; 3 pm - 4.30 pm: In association with Kriya Events, Starmark will host Absolutely Spellbound, a three-day spelling and vocabulary workshop for children between 7 years and 12 years. Details and registration at #98303 79166, 98314 44138.
May 19 - 29 at Marudhara, 6 Merlin Park: A workshop on Rajasthani folk song and bhajan. To be conducted by Roshan Khan of Rajasthan. Details at #2460 7356.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to: Time out, The Telegraph, 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001; Fax: 2234-8244
All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less
than a week ahead to:
Time out, The Telegraph, 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001;
Fax: 2234-8244
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