Arts & Culture

From Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia’s flute to ace Vikku Vinayakram’s ghatam, everything will be heard online at this year’s Parampara Series as Natya Tarangini and Raja Radha Reddy partner with United Nations India to celebrate 75 years of UN.

The ballet protégé, Kamal Singh completed his first two weeks of lessons, which involve training with a face mask amid strict Covid-19 lockdown restrictions for artists, but he says he is loving every minute of it.

Aiming for an eco-friendly Diwali 2020? Take tips from this Gaushala in Punjab’s Mohali district that is making lamps with a mixture of fuller’s earth or multani mitti and cow dung.

Thermal screening, usage of masks, regular sanitisation and social distancing norms are all in place as Ramlila troupes take centre stage in Delhi-NCR amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Company Theatre is holding socially distanced, open-air stagings where viewers can opt to participate by sipping tea, helping plant a tree, stepping into a lake.

Since 1972, 50 antiquities, some of them nearly 2,000 years old, have been recovered from foreign shores. Three were returned just last month. Here’s a list of the most important recoveries.

A new online museum uses web comics and animated videos to tell true-life stories of youngsters overcoming psychological struggles.

Being ‘woke’ is the latest trend, and everyone wants to keep up. Everyone, but Bollywood it seems. From Kareena Kapoor Khan in Black face in Khushi to most recently Akshay Kumar and Kiara Advani in Laxmmi Bomb song, Burj Khalifa, here are some of Bollywood’s most culturally inappropriate, bordering racist and majorly insensitive moments...

Sanjib Basak, an employee of Dhubri district administration, has, over the past few years, come up with various innovative and eco-friendly ideas to design the idol but this year, amid the Covid-19 crisis, he wanted to make a difference with his creation.

Banksy’s playful take on a famous Impressionist painting has sold at auction for 7.6 million pounds, the second-highest price ever paid for a work by the British street artist.

As visitor numbers no longer justify large-scale exhibitions and planning is fraught, art galleries and museums face ‘a massive deficit’ this year courtesy Covid-19 pandemic

The Bengali community in the Delhi-NCR region is staying away from Durga Puja festivities, a community affair in parks and other open spaces. And nowhere is this more evident than in Chittaranjan Park, often known as ‘mini Bengal’.

‘We just feel that we couldn’t be associated with a town that does not change their stance on their LGBT+ community’: Irish town of Fermoy in a growing culture war with Polish twin Nowa Deba and Poland’s increasing homophobic stance

The Art of Living, under the guidance and vision of Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar, presents the launch of the World Forum for Art and Culture.

Two guitars owned, played and partly designed by the late Eddie Van Halen will be going up for auction.