Arts

One was a firefighter and the other traded in his electric guitar for a classical one. Carlo Aonzo (mandolin) and Lorenzo Bernardi (guitar) were in Calcutta in February to perform their project, ‘Jo...

I came across this poem (The Laid Out Body, a part of the poem Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias by Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca) in which the poet was commemorating a friend’s death but there...

1. Video: 10 Easy Crafts with Old ClothesBy: HGTV HandmadeDon’t know what to do with old clothes? This video will give you 10 options to recycle them and create something new — door mats out of ol...

Dance history in India and the spaces in which the forms originated and evolved have mandated that the practice and presentation of most of the classical forms are the exclusive preserve of women. It ...

A deafening serenity permeates the forest of canvases on the walls of the Piramal Museum of Art in Mumbai. Five decades of Syed Haider Raza’s work, distilled into 35 paintings, and topped with a han...

Dimitri Deb Das aka 3DlockYears active: EightDance style: Locking, hip-hop and freestyleKnow the artiste: Dimitri has loved dancing since childhood, even before he got introduced to Calcutta’s hip-h...

Braving torrential rain and traffic snarls, a group of theatre addicts makes it to the top floor of a commercial complex in Mumbai’s Lokhandwala area where Tamaasha Theatre has organised, over two c...

Jim Sarbh, who stood out as the terrifying terrorist Khalil in Ram Madhvani’s Neerja, plays one of two clowns in Rajat Kumar's stage production MacBeth: What Is Done, Is Done. Kapoorâ...

Bhaanotsav, designed and directed by Piyal Bhattacharya, stems from his pervasive research on the reconstruction of the ancient Indian dramatic form as embedded in the Natyashastra. The performance, b...

Sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik vowed to take dying art forms to new heights as he was appointed as the president of the Odisha Lalit Kala Akademi on Wednesday.“I seek blessings of Lord Jagannath to wo...