Mastery in miniature Small is beautiful 2 is an exhibition of miniature art works featuring 40 contemporary Indian arists including Paritosh Sen, Suhas Roy, Shuvaprasanna, Wasim Kapoor, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Anup Giri, Shyamal Mukherjee, Beena Pradhan, Bratin Khan, Sutapa Khan, Sanjib Gogoi, Avijit Dutta, Sibsaday Chowdhary (a painting by him appears right) and Subhamita Nanda. The recent boom in Indian art has shown an exponential rise in prices of art works. Since the demand for large works are great at national and international levels, the prices of art pieces have rendered them almost ungettable for many art lovers. The ongoing exhibition features paintings in oil, pastel and watercolour on mixed media and canvas, besides pieces of sculpture done in metals and stone. A look at the exhibits is enough to impress upon the mind of the viewer the grandeur of these small artefacts. The artists have addressed the same concerns and shown the same convictions in this diminutive version of their individual and collective signature brilliance. lEvent: An exhibition of miniature art works lWhen: Till October 17 (weekdays only);11 am - 7 pm lWhere: Masters Collection Art Gallery, G7 Malalay Apartments, 3 Woodburn Park Road

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October 8 - 13 at Chemould Art Gallery, Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Celebrations — Chandana Khan’s latest paintings. October 8 - 14 at Taj Bengal: second solo exhibition of paintings by Atin Mitra. Till October 9 at Academy of Fine Arts, South Gallery (A); 3 pm - 8 pm: The second solo exhibition of Pradip Maiti’s works. Till October 9 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Drawings and paintings by Palash Bhaduri. Till October 9 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery (B); 3 pm - 8 pm: Roddur presents an exhibition of paintings by Ajita Sengupta, Sankar Tarafdar and Susanta Sarkar. Till October 9 at Artspace India, 7 Deodar Street; 2 pm - 8 pm: Recent paintings by Sukanta Basu. Till October 10 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of recent sculptures by Uma Roy Chowdhury, Debajit Chakraborty, Prasun Ghosh, Rathin Dey and Soumen Das. Till October 12 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road; 10.30 am - 7 pm: An Artists’ Rainbow, an exhibition of art and sculpture by renowned and contemporary artists. Till October 12 at Gandhara Art Gallery, 1B Gurusaday Road, Flat 5A (Palm Springs): A solo exhibition of paintings by Kazi Nasir. Till October 12 at Samokal Art Gallery, 23 Gariahat Road, 1st floor; Gol Park; 4 pm - 8 pm: Group show by contemporary painters Binit Sinha, Dewashish Das, Dipankar Chanda, Kausik Raha, Ranadip Das, Shyamal Mukherjee, Snehasish Maity and Subrata Das. Till October 12 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Graphics and paintings by Jayanta Naskar. Till October 15 at Aakriti Art Gallery, 12/3A Hungerford Street; 3 pm - 7 pm: Gen Next II, paintings and sculptures by 40 Indian contemporary artists. Till October 15 (except Sundays) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Ganges Art Gallery, Calcutta and Gallery Espace, New Delhi host Surfaces and Textures. Participating artists: Kishore Shinde, Dattaraya Apte, Mona Rai, Rooshika Patel, Manjari Chakrabarty, Mekhla Bahl, Mithu Sen, Ranjith Raman, Neha Turakia, Shobha Broota, Yashwant Deshmukh, Yogesh Rawal and Tapati Chowdhury. Till October 17 (weekdays only) at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G-7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Small is Beautiful 2 — the world of miniature art works. Featuring works of renowned artists. Till October 17 at Gallery Yapanchitra, Flat - 12/1A, 3rd floor, Lift no. 2, Stephen Court, 18A Park Street; 11 am - 7 pm: Written Image, solo exhibition by Hiran Mitra. Till October 28 (except Sundays) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 11 am - 8 pm: An Evening in Paris — experiences of a group of artists as they traversed through various museums and art galleries of Paris, Rome, Venice and London. Till November 3 (except Sundays) at Tejas Arts Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, opp. Ice Skating Rink; 3 pm - 7.30 pm: Tejas presents Devi — eighteen artists’ versions of Goddess Durga. Participating artists: Abhijit Ghosh, Anita Gurbaxani, Anirban Seth, Ashok Ganguly, Barun Saha, Biswarup Haldar, Debasish Sen Gupta, Dhiren Sasmal, Goutam Sarkar, Palash Paul, Partha Ray, Ritu Poddar, Runu Misra Banerjee, Samir Aich, Sarbani Ganguly, Shambhu Saha, Sudipto Tiwari, Swapan Kumar Saha, Tarun Chakravorty, Ujjwal Debnath and Buddhadeb Bose.

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October 8 at Kala Kunj; 6.30 pm: Abhinetri Sangha presents Shoudamini, based on Tagore’s story, Badnaam. Adaptation: Chandan Sen. The cast includes Papia Adhikary, Ashoke Viswanathan and Debdoot Ghosh.

PERFOrMING ARTS

October 8 at Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi Sabhaghar; 5.30 pm: Third anniversary celebration of Kavi sammelan and release of the Puja number. Inaugural song by Arghya Sen. Poetry-reading by selected poets. October 8 at Starmark, 3 Lord Sinha Road; 7 pm: Monday Blues — an evening of blues featuring Anjum Katyal backed up by Lush with Bapai on keyboards, Willy on bass and Sanjay on drums. October 9 at Nazrul Mancha; 7.30 pm onwards: Vodafone presents Agomoni, a night-long music concert featuring Pandit Viswa Mohan Bhatt, Sonal Mansingh, Bikram Ghosh, Nachiketa, Srikanto Acharya, Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, Oikyatan - the band, Subhamita, Srikumar Chattopadhyay, Rupankar, Rezwana Choudhury Banya and Bratati Bandyopadhyay.

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October 8 at Humayun Kabir Hall of the Asiatic Society; 12 noon: A day-long seminar to mark the birth centenary of Madam Rachel Carson, the mother of environmentology. Speakers: Prof. Shyamal Chakraborty, Arunendu Banerjee and Dr Jayanta Basu. October 8 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Amiteshananda will speak on Practical Vedanta. October 8 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: Pravrajika Vedantaprana will speak in Bengali on Sri Sri Chandi Mahima.

FILM SHOW

October 8 - 12 at Gorky Sadan; 6 pm: Eisenstein Cine Club presents Cinema Asia: Through the Lense - Lively. Today: The Days and Night of Netuk (dir: Sarbajit Sen) and Painted Fire (dir: Im Kwon Taek, republic of Korea).

PHOTOGRAPHS

October 9 & 10 at Amway office, Legacy Building, 25 Shakespeare Sarani: Art & Artistry — an exhibition of photographs of Satyajit Ray taken by Hirak Sen.

EXHIBITION

Till October 9 at Sravasti, 14/97 Golf Club Road, Tollygunge; 2 pm - 8 pm: KeyaChaitali’s garment and accessories fair, showcasing t-shirts, photuas, short kurtas, kurtas, salwar-kurtas, wrap-around sets, saradins, nakshi-kantha, batik, appliquéd, fabric-painted, block-printed cotton and silk sarees, blouse pieces, costume jewellery and bags. Till October 10 at 8/2 Loudon Street, 2nd floor; 11 am - 7 pm: Earthy Myth’s pre-festive exhibition of sarees, kurtas and tunics. Till October 12 at 12/2A Bakul Bagan Row; 12 noon - 7.30 pm: Kreasions exhibits designer tant, crepe, georgette, chiffon and silk sarees, crepe batik suits, kurtis, tunics, skirts, fashion belts and batuas. Till October 13 at 57/9 Ballygunge Circular Road; 10.30 am - 7 pm: Soumya’s Creation presents an exhibition of constume jewellery in new designs and innovative craftsmanship. Till October 13 at 114/L Selimpur Road, 1st floor, Dhakuria; 3 pm - 8 pm: Nibedita Boutique’s exhibition of designer sarees in silk, batik, tant, crepe and kantha with matching costume jewellery. Till October 16 at Avishek Point, 2nd floor, 152 S.P. Mukherjee Road; 3 pm - 8 pm: Gallery with Difference presents a collection of traditional and modern kanthas in Bengal. Collection: Shamlu Dudeja, Darshan Shah, Anita Bhattacharya and Arjina Biwi. Till October 17 at CIMA Gallery; 11 am - 8 pm: Art in Life, an exhibition of fashion wear, T-shirts, decorative art, masks, exculsive textiles, stoles and scarves, tribal art, jewellery, wall hangings, books, carpets, linens, brass items, embroidered bags and dhurries. Till October 18 at Cottage Industries, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road; 10 am - 7 pm: Central Cottage Industries Corporation of India Ltd hosts a saree and ready-to-wear exhibition. Till October 18 at P 249 Purna Das Road: Darbari hosts Sharadiya Shimeeta Sankhya - A Limited Edition Affair, an exhibition of saris, suits, kurtis, patialas, tunics, skirts and leather accessories.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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