Arts

Sensitive receptors pick up dark signals for the mind to battle. It’s this Black Cloud of Mind [sic] that the three new members of The Frame unburdened in their recent show at the group&rsq...

Colourful, animated and innovative in the manner in which they acted as visual aids to narratives, traditional Indian scroll paintings told stories usually narrated by the artists themselves or by per...

Krishnanagar, among the nerve centres of undivided Bengal, is slowly coming to terms with the changes that have swept over it. As far as performing arts is concerned, this town by the Ganges has tradi...

Tilly perceives carnival as a diverse and multifaceted event and therefore doesn't see a reason that his politics shouldn't have a place there. He says, "There are historical roots t...

“Bucking the trend of Indian works of art being exported abroad, we decided to bring this material to India, to display to Indian audiences,” said Ashish Anand, MD and CEO of DAG. “T...

Kartick Chandra Pyne (1931- 2017) is a neglected artist. The amazing and puzzling diversity of his work is partly responsible for it. As was his defiance of the rules that dictate the art market, prob...

There is something otherworldly about the works of Keerti Pooja and Khokan Giri exhibited in Ways of Being (an online show hosted at Emami Art recently). This is, of course, partly owing to their resp...

Since the controversy erupted over the design of the national emblem on top of the new Parliament building and the seemingly-menacing look of the lions caught the nation unawares, the situation seems ...

An anarchist with a sense of humor In a recent interview with The Guardian, Hockney revealed his inner anarchist, with his typical sense of humor. At the meeting in a restaurant, he brought out two c...

Barring a few, theatre groups in Calcutta have never been consistent in exploring the vast resources that are offered by folklore and indigenous performing arts. The overpowering influence of the colo...