Kolkata, Mar 7 (IBNS): The West Bengal State Akademi of Dance Drama Music and Visual Arts and the Department of Sculpture, Rabindra Bharati University held a six-day residential workshop on the making of Rava masks at the Jela Parishad Bungalow in Kamakhyaguri, and also in some of its surrounding areas in Alipurduar in West Bengal.
Cart That Art painting show in Kolkata inspired by e-commerce jargons
Kolkata, Mar 6 (IBNS): Cart That Art-Priceless Art@ Artful Prices is an eclectic mix of around 75 attractive paintings that represent everything from spirituality to various facades of Kolkata and a plethora of moods and melodies on canvas that were exhibited in the city with affordable price tags to the works.
Want to go back to painting again: Sabyasachi Chakraborty at Camel event
Kolkata, Mar 5 (IBNS): Tollywood actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty, while attending an annual art exhibition and national prize distribution, organised by Camel Art Foundation on Wednesday, said that the quality of the works he saw inspired him to pick up paint brush again.
Google doodles to celebrate Rukmini Devi's 112th birth anniversary
Mountain View, California, Feb 29 (IBNS) Google on Monday celebrated the late Indian dancer, theosophist and animal rights activist Rukmini Devi Arundale's 112th birth anniversary with a doodle.
ICCR Kolkata hosts Translation, an art exhibition for young artists
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IBNS): Nandalal Bose Gallery and Jamini Roy Gallery of ICCR in Kolkata is hosting 'TRANSLATIONS', the fifth international young artists exhibition promoted by Emergent Art Space, a non profit organization based in San Francisco, USA.
Parampara of Kolkata presents an evening of Indian classical music and dance
Kolkata, Feb 22 (IBNS) Parampara of Kolkata recently organised the SWAR Festival, an evening of Indian classical music and dance, at the lawns of the Gurusaday Museum located in Behala, on the southern fringe of the city.
Rahul Bose auctions iconic memorabilia in “The Idea of Indiaâ€
Mumbai, Feb 20 (IBNS) Actor Rahul Bose and his NGO The Foundation on Saturday hosted their annual auction - "The Idea of India" featuring 11 pieces of iconic memorabilia from celebrated donors who personify and epitomize the soul of art and culture.
Tata Steel's 'Art-in-Industry' to bring focus back on diversity
Jamshedpur/ Kolkata, Feb 19 (IBNS): Tata Steel inaugurated the much coveted Art in Industry art camp at the Centre for Excellence, Jamshedpur on Thursday.
Mudejar art of architecture and embellishments in Spain offers a glimpse into a time when Christian and Islamic art fused and created beauty together, discovers Ranjita Biswas
Lalit Kala Akademi hosts the Kala Vithi Art Exhibition
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IBNS) A unique painting exhibition cum sale, ‘Kala Vithi’, showing the work of 10 master painters was launched by Ashwani Lohani, CMD, Air India and Padma Shri Shovana Narayan, at the Lalit Kala Akademi Art Gallery, in New Delhi on Saturday.
Amaan Ali Khan , Ayaan Ali Khan collaborate with Grammy nominated violinist Elmira Darvarova
Mumbai, Feb 9 (IBNS) Sarod artists Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan are all set to perform with noted Grammy nominated violinist Elmira Darvarova.
Kolkata, Feb 4 (IBNS): The 7-day Annual Art Exhibition 2015-16 of the West Bengal State Akademi of Dance Drama Music and Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University was inaugurated at the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) in Kolkata recently.
NEOPWA donates 10L to support cancer patients of north east
Kolkata Feb 1 (IBNS): North East Officer's and Professionals Welfare Association ( NEOPWA) on Saturday donated Rs 10,00000 to Tata Medical Center Trust for diagnosis of the underprivileged cancer patients of north eastern states of India.
On-line arm of Saffronart to auction various items on the theme Art of Bengal
Kolkata, Jan 30 (IBNS): StoryLTD.com – a part of the Saffronart auction house – will be holding an on-line auction of Art of Bengal on Feb 2 and 3, which will include religious paintings; prints, books, stamps of and featuring the Bengal School artists; film posters, lobby cards and photographs from films by Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha, Purnendru Patri and Bimal Roy; etc.
Classical stalwarts perform at Uttarpara programme
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IBNS): Tabla player Pandit Prodyut Mukherjee recently inaugurated and performed at the Uttarpara Sangeet Chakro's 60th Annual Classical Music Programme through a live concert where musical maestros like Hariprasad Chaurasia and Ajay Chakraborty also participated.