How did the association come about? Kolkata is steeped in nostalgia and history. That is somehow not getting reflected in the public art space. As an artist, I have taken an initiative to capture Kol...

Initially, his family, comprising his parents and two younger brothers, found it difficult to manage the extra expense for Subrata to make idols. But later, father Biswanath started saving to make his...

Visva-Bharati’s fine arts faculty, Kala Bhavana, has drawn up a plan to renovate the statue of Mahatma Gandhi — constructed in 1968 by artist Ramkinkar Baij — following a request by President Ra...

Statuary and public art are proliferating in the city. Most of these are scary. In this column I will try to arrange them in an ascending order of horror, in the classic Aristotelian sense. Horror, Ar...

Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati’s fine arts department, will for the first time hold a large-scale exhibition of paintings and sculptures of its famous teachers and students since its inception 100 year...

An open-air sculpture museum, touted as the first in the state, was inaugurated at Kalinga Nagar here on Tuesday.Chief minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the museum that is spread over five acres.Twe...

A group of foreign artists from across the world have come up with art installations made from waste materials in the city.The live sculpturing session, which began on November 1, will culminate with ...

Ceramic birds on a real tree. Discarded industrial junk as sculptures. The first-of-its-kind Art Residency, a signature art camp organised by Tata Steel at the Centre for Excellence here, ended on Thu...

The capital has got a sculpture that aims to create awareness about noise pollution.The three-piece sculpture, depicting an ear trying to protect itself from the sound created by two trumpet-shaped l...