arts, culture and entertainment

Manoj Bajpayee interview: ‘It’s time to line up at the box office of democracy’

Every few years we see a resurgence in Manoj Bajpayee’s career. Clocking 30 years in an industry tha...

entertainment | 5 months ago

M.F. Husain, an outsider in 2024’s India?

In 2011, after M.F. Husain died in London at the age of 95, writer and filmmaker Ruchir Joshi wrote ...

entertainment | 5 months ago

Bengaluru street art tackles women’s safety, drug abuse, and cybercrime

Graffiti for Hope, an initiative spearheaded by Rotary International, has brought social issues to t...

entertainment | 5 months ago

Ranjan Kaul’s oil paintings depict women’s pursuit of freedom from discrimination and societal shackles

“The plight of the Dalit women symbolically moving from darkness to light signifies hope”, says Ranj...

entertainment | 5 months ago

Raghu Rai’s ‘A Thousand Lives’:a40-year journey

“At no given time am I without a camera,” asserts Raghu Rai, one of India’s most important photograp...

entertainment | 5 months ago

Steering art and culture in times of unrest and war | Carola Lentz of Goethe-Institut shares her thoughts

Multiple crises in my home country, Germany, and around the world have reopened debates on the signi...

entertainment | 5 months ago

‘I am a greedy actor’ | Interview with Manisha Koirala, star of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s web-series Heeramandi, releasing May 1

Manisha Koirala claims she is a slouch on any ordinary day. “I can’t sit upright!” she chuckles. On ...

entertainment | 5 months ago

Goan village on a quilt | Savia Viegas records the stories of Carmona on denim

Quilts and memories go together — the varied scraps of fabric forming a harmonious, scrapbook-like w...

entertainment | 5 months ago

Art Park to celebrate its 75th session with artists and their audiences

This weekend, Ark Park celebrates a landmark — it is their 75th session in the city and in an age wh...

entertainment | 5 months ago

Check out Anita Dongre’s new range of clothing, made with biodegradable yarn, and vegan accessories  

The metaphorical iterations of the colour blue may have attributed to its aesthetic value. No wonder...

entertainment | 5 months ago

With trees as his theme, artist Ompal Sansanwal returns with a solo show in Delhi after 15 years

Artist Ompal Sansanwal can’t wait for his exhibition Jiva to open at Bikaner House on Saturday eveni...

entertainment | 5 months ago

Why influencer publishing is having a big moment

Last month, Penguin India, the largest English language books publisher in the subcontinent, threw a...

entertainment | 5 months ago

Emami Arts retrospective | K.G. Subramanyan, Kolkata’s Tamil visionary

During my visit to the Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC), a day after the opening of K.G. Subraman...

entertainment | 5 months ago

Rudrapatnam Ramakanth to preside over 52nd music festival by Sri Thyagaraja Ganasabha Trust from May 9 to 12 in Bengaluru

Sri Thyagaraja Ganasabha Trust will host its 52nd music festival from May 9 to 12 in Bengaluru. Reno...

entertainment | 5 months ago

Step inside a painting, travel in VR pods: Here’s how immersive technology is changing the global art world

A dark corridor, occasionally illumined by bright red and yellow flowers, leads one to what seems li...

entertainment | 5 months ago

Bengaluru artist Andrew Paul’s ‘Transcending Surfaces’ exhibition explores time and memory

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts included Andrew Paul’s works in 2016. His painting...

entertainment | 5 months ago