Amitabh Bachchan to be honoured with 50th Dadasaheb Phalke Award today

New Delhi/UNI: Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu will give Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan the prestigious 50th Dadasaheb Phalke Award on December 23.

KNMA holding special exhibition on artist Haku Shah; a few objects are being exhibited for the first time

Kolkata/IBNS: New Delhi based Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts is holding a special exhibition until January 10, 2020, on the works of Haku Shah (1934 – 2019), the reticent artist who grew up in an environment inspired by Gandhian thoughts and philosophy.

Indian social activist and cultural patron Sundeep Bhutoria meets Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr Abiy Ahmed Ali in Oslo

Oslo/IBNS: Indian social welfare activist and cultural patron Sundeep Bhutoria on Tuesday met Ethiopian Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2019 Dr Abiy Ahmed Ali at the Nobel Peace Prize 2019 Award Ceremony in the Norwegian capital of Oslo.

Vadodara-based Gallery Ark to showcase senior ceramic artists' creations

Kolkata/UNI: Works of senior artists like Jyotsna Bhatt, Ira Chaudhuri and Savia Mahajan will be on display at the Vadodara-based Gallery Ark's upcoming exhibition 'Elements in Mythology', focussing on ceramics and pottery.

Bengal's flautist cop enthralls audience at ICCR recital

Kolkata/IBNS: It is not very often that a police officer entertains city’s elite music aficionados. But Indrajit Basu, Additional Superintendent of Police (Zonal) Baruipur Police district, recently enthralled the audience with his flute recital at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). He was accompanied by Soumen Sarkar on tabla.

KNMA presents Structuring Form - the Innovative Rigour of Mahendra Raj

IBNS/Kolkata: Delhi-based Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is holding a special exhibition highlighting some of the architectural projects of Mahendra Raj, one of the best known structural designers of India.

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar unveils 4th Edition of “Wisdom Speaks”

Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar recently launched the fourth edition of “Wisdom Speaks” - a trilingual multi-disciplinary-peer-reviewed journal – published by Indian National Forum of Art and Culture (INFAC), a premier non-profit working for the promotion and invigoration of art and culture in India since 2005.

Writer Pratibha Ray inaugurates Chair Poetry Evenings 2019

Kolkata/IBNS: Jnanpith Award winner Padmasri Pratibha Ray, in the presence of poet Subodh Sarkar, on Friday inaugurated the second edition of Chair Poetry Evenings 2019.

Sikkim has immense potential waiting to be unleashed: Arijit Dutta

Arijit Dutta, Managing Director of Priya Entertainments, in conversation with Subhojit Roy about the forthcoming Sikkim Film Festival and the just concluded Temi Autumn Festival, is hopeful about the growth of Eco Adventure tourism

First Goa Open Arts Festival, an initiave of the state's creative professionals, to be held in February 2020

Kolkta/IBNS: The Open Arts Initiative, a group of creative professionals living in Goa, is organising the first Goa Open Arts Festival early next year.

500 years old Assam’s Bhaona performed on global stage in Dubai

Guwahati/IBNS: Almost 500 years after Saint-reformer Srimanta Sankardeva’s creation ‘Bhaona’, Assam’s mythological folk theatre has now entered into the global stage with an English avatar.

From Prince to Picasso, the arts can be just the tonic, new UN health agency study shows

New York/IBNS: From before birth, to the end of life, taking to the dance floor or sketching a still life, can positively affect our health and even prove more cost-effective than conventional medical treatment, the World Health Organisation (WHO) found in a new study published on Monday.

Kheyali Dastidar brings Bengali play Pratyasha

Kolkata/IBNS: Actress and theatre personality Kheyali Dastidar has come up with a Bengali play titled as Pratyasha which weaves a compelling story of the mismatch of expectations in the present day's busy urban life.

Delhi to host second Asian Curatorial Forum in November; first edition held in Bangladesh in 2017

Delhi/IBNS: Curators and representatives of art institutions from South Asian and East/Southeast Asian countries will be meeting in Delhi for the second edition of  Asian Curatorial Forum, which will begin on November 7, 2019.

Ninth edition of Art Bengaluru opens on November 2, will also feature Film Bengaluru

Bengaluru/IBNS: Artists and art lovers prepare yourself for a month-long extravaganza in November with Art Bengaluru slated to begin on November 2.