Tracy Lee Stum holds a Guinness record for the largest street painting by an individualhas been doing, touring the metros, conducting workshops for high school students, college-goers or collaborating with local artists to paint walls of vantage locations with life-size 3D graffiti.Once she is home Ms. Stum has another challenging assignment on her palate. She is being assigned to do art work at the...
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attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team was yet another reminder of the growing threat of terrorism in today's world. You could call it 'Munich Olympicsattack re-visited', though in Lahore, fortunately, the Sri Lankan players escaped with just minor injuries.Even weeks later the cricketers were still reeling from the aftermath of the attack. That's when Sri Lankapresident Mahinda Rajapaksa decided summon the...
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Still Life with Peaches comes from a room in Herculaneum. It wasn't a free-standing image. Like other still lives, it was set on a wall among landscapes, narratives, decoration.Classical art is often given a classic status. The works of the ancient Greeks and Romans have been taken up by many later artists as supreme examples. At least that's true of their statues and buildings. But when it comes to...
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70-year-old modernist artist has a career in art spanning over five decades. He has been awarded the Padmashree Award. Having combined painting explorations with theatre acting and set designing, Parekh studied art at the J J School of Art and has lived in Calcutta and New Delhi. The show, titled, The Pursuit of Intensity, curated by Ranjit HoskoteI have been visiting Benaras for the last 25 years....
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Describing art as the voice of silence, Jammu and Kashmir CMster Omar Abdullah today said paintings communicate feelings of the artist absorbed from the surroundings.Inspecting the exhibition of rare paintings at a private school at Athwajan on the outsirts of the city, organised by the Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi in collaboration with State Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, Omar said paintings...
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former victim of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, is due to return to the Berlin prison he was once locked up in - for an art project.Carl-Wolfgang Holzapfel was arrested by the police in the 1960s while at a demonstration in East Berlin.He spent nine months in a secret Stasi prison, where he was abused and tortured.He plans to spend seven days living in the small cell with all his movements...
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Delhi government Monday informed the Delhi High Court that it is willing to change a law that criminalises begging.Filing an affidavit before a division bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S. Muralidhar, counsel Nazmi Waziri said the government is ready to amend the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act.Waziri also replied to a query of the court on steps taken for education of children...
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AHMEDABAD:Deftly using a chisel and a stick, making a characteristically musical sound,35-year-old Mohammad Anees showcased the art of making wooden blocks.Unfortunately, this art is already dying a slow death.In a bid tore-invent the lost art and craft in the city, students of Interior Design ofCEPT University displayed the rich traditional craftsmanship of local artisansof the walled city at House...
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After Magic Wallrush I, II, and 2.8, the third (or fourth?) edition is here and you can catch it hanging from a wall on Sunday, November 1 at the Park Street-Free School Street crossing, near T3.Led by college students Opashona Ghosh, Arka Alam and Arijit Sett, Wallrush is an art experiment that exhibits everything from pop art to photographs, paintings to music.Covered by Levis India on their website,...
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AHMEDABAD:Sixty-one-year-old Raja Chhitara's face glowed with pride as he unfolded anine-metre long cloth adorned with an exquisite painting. He is one of theartisans who live in Mirzapur and Vasna areas and prepare the Mata ni Pachedi',a textile art composed using traditional techniques of hand painting and blockprinting and is offered to goddesses.Chhitara was among the artistswho had gathered at...
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