Live and “hand-raised” pigeons confined in a room filled with copper wires and transistor radios emitting white noise from unused frequencies. It’s Sound Sculpture, an art installation on display at Lalit Kala Akademi.
Delhi has traditionally been seen as more classic in its taste, compared to say Mumbai, which is seen as funkier, but now small entrepreneurs are shaking things up. Using the online medium, they are giving a twist to traditional handicrafts available at places like Dilli Haat.
Samar Khurshid writes.
Our pickHead for an evening of classical fusion with the Spinifex Orchestra from Netherlands and Suma Sudhindra's veena ensemble. Sudhindra is the foremost exponent of the veena in her generation of musicians, with her range of work extending from scholarly to performances of immaculate skill and creative counters. The Amsterdam-based nine-man Spinifex Orchestra showcases a variety of sounds including heavy metal, charming solos, rock and R&B.
Commemorating the golden jubilee of the Indian Economic Service, the ministry of finance has gone beyond the humdrum seminars, debates and conferences and become more savvy in its celebration. They have commissioned an artistic calendar portraying world-renowned economists through sketches.
Not many know the traditions and practices of a Buddhist monastery, but Nicholas Vreeland’s pictures may help change that. The Swiss photographer, also a monk, has lived in and captured scenes from various monasteries, and has even been the official photographer of the Dalai Lama.
In an attempt to revive the dying art of Ikat from the Pochampally district of Andhra Pradesh, designer Rahul Mishra has given the age-old tradition a contemporary twist to appeal to the modern woman.
After a gap of three years, Gurcharan Singh is back with a show titled Twilight Tales. The senior artist is displaying a range of 40-45 canvases and paper works, all done in his signature contemporary and colourful style.
20 public installations, parallel exhibitions and a live performance — Yoko Ono Lennon’s Delhi visit promises to be action-packed. A key figure during the Fluxus movement in the 1960s, there has been a revival in the interest in Ono’s works in the past decade.
Celebrity artist Yoko Ono, who is in Delhi for her exhibition, Our Beautiful Daughters, has not seen any of MF’s works. It was only after the gallery’s representatives promised to take her around city galleries to show some of his works that she seemed happy.
A Renaissance palace grafted onto the top of an ancient Roman theatre is up for sale in Rome for 26 million pounds.
Two paintings, one by art master Pablo Picasso and another by famous Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, were stolen from Greece's National Gallery on Monday, police sources said.
This may be your chance to own an artwork by Indian art maestro MF Husain, who passed away in June last year. An exhibition of 32 limited-edition serigraphs (a print made using a stencil process) by the veteran artist has been curated by Dhoomilal Contemporary Art Gallery at The Westin in Gurgaon.
Gallery Art & Soul, Worli is hosting Color Energies, a show by Jenny Bhatt, till January 12.
Cultural evetns to look forward to in 2012.
What was big this year, and what 2012 may offer.