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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Last night Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album cover was beamed across London’s skyline.The iconic black prism with a streak of refracted rainbow was recreated on Primrose Hill, London using a pyramid structure, LED lighting and powerful lasers.The event was organised by Sky Arts to celebrate the screening of a1994 live performance by Pink Floyd at Earl’s Court, called Pulse: Dark Side of the...
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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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Deep in the heart of Maoist country in Jharkhand, a young woman is reviving ancient artistic genres to "bring new meaning into the lives of tribal and backward caste women" whose husbands and kin have taken to arms.Reshma Dutta, the daughter of the erstwhile 'zamindar' (landlord) of Bundu, an economically backward district 40 km from Ranchi, makes terracotta, dokra (metal ware) and ceramic sculptures,...
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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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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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will start to promote its diverse arts and culture as a niche tourism product for fine arts lovers beginning next year.Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen said the target was well-to-do foreign tourists, especially Europeans who spend on fine living and invest in art collections.She said this would include paintings, plays, architecture as well as its world class orchestra symphony, the Malaysian...
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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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