Arts

Artistic works are “responses to... pressing... needs of the time one lives in,” writes Nanak Ganguly, the curator of Sublime Tranferences, an exhibition hosted by Emami Art recently. Inde...

Given our limited exposure to contemporary theatre practice in the Bankura district, the two-day theatre festival (August 28-29) hosted by Bankura Theatre Academy on the hallowed premises of Bankura B...

Last month, Sapphire’s evening of celebration, marking its 29th birthday with a presentation titled Tranz (picture, right), connected the past and the present of the organization into an organic...

Social media, a new generation of digital-native choreographers and, over the past 18 months, the successive lockdowns owing to the pandemic have pushed screen dance to the foreground. The recent rele...

Among the other participants, Pratyush Bandyopadhyay’s rendition of Puriya Dhanashree and Hambir, Vasant Kabra’s Yaman Kalyan and Pilu, and Narendranath Dhar’s Shuddha Nat, Jaijayant...

Androgyny is coming of age on the Kolkata stage. In recent years, DumDum Shabdomugdho Naatyokendra, led by Rakesh Ghosh, has been consistent in exploring the ambiguity of gender expression in performa...

One of the highlights of the concert, Amra Korbo Joy, was the actual music space curated wonderfully with the lighting aptly accentuating the moods of the various songs sung or played. This digit...

Bagula, located on the Sealdah-Gede railroad, hardly has access to a regular auditorium. With the nearest theatres at Krishnanagar and Ranaghat located a good 20 kilometres away, Suchana, a 32-year-ol...

When their relationship of four years collapsed, Croatian artists, Olinka Vistica and Drazen Grubisic, came up with the idea of creating an installation with tokens of their shared life and with simil...

In a very timely exhibition, Delhi-based gallery Latitude 28 has put together the works of Diptej Vernekar, Gigi Scaria, Noor Ali Chagani and Niyeti Chadha Kannal, collectively titled Traversing The N...