Print to paint  What: Nature Morte has on display an online exhibition of works spanning 40 years by the artist Rm Palaniappan. ‘Grammar of Randoms’ brings together over 30 works on paper and canvas dating from 1980 to 2020, showing the artist’s development from printmaking to painting. Born in Devakottai, Tamil Nadu in 1957, Palaniappan’s […]

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The latest exhibition at India International Center showcases Japanese woodblock prints with subjects that include famous prostitutes, kabuki actors, and erotica  Bringing to us one of the most important genres of art of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867) in Japan, here’s an exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e or “pictures of the floating world”. Aptly titled […]

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Last journey What: Recipient of the Audience Award for Best Brazilian Documentary, José e Pilar is a deeply moving story about love, loss and literature. The film follows the Nobel Prize winning Portuguese author José Saramago and his Spanish journalist wife Pilar del Rio during his last years, including the writing of his book The Elephant’s […]

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Personal touch What: Artist Faiza Hasan’s solo debut ‘Dear M’ is a meditation on the nature of remembrance-the half complete, particular moments and familiar objects that constitute a personal self and history. Hasan’s embroidery and drawings render specific memorabilia-personal items, family mementos and other items that form the record of a fragile and particular past. […]

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Quest for happiness  What: India International Centre and Portuguese Embassy Cultural Centre presents #Eudaimonia – Happiness, an online exhibition of paintings in oil by Ana Romero from Portugal. “Eudaimonia”- happiness for the Greeks – or the good performance of their demon, is achieved by doing what they are called or evoked for. Artist Ana Romero […]

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With Mementos from Moments, artist Chandrima Bhattacharyya appears to construct collective feminine experience through her form Artist Chandrima Bhattacharyya’s body of works in ‘Mementos from Moments’ is highly personal. The exhibition presents a tapestry of richly intertwined stories, personalised myths, and evocative commentaries that embody the complex and multi-layered world of a woman.  The paintings […]

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Artist Dipali Deshpande’s exhibition, titled ‘Resham’, is inspired by the ethnic mess created by women in the house during festivals Seized by the love for the nine-yard, Indian women's clothing, and her love for textiles since her childhood, artist Dipali Deshpande’s recent works are now on display at an exhibition aptly titled ‘Resham’. Deshpande’s paintings […]

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Film fest What: The four month long, online Rising Gardens Film Festival culminates this April with its online edition from 16-19 April, and an Earth Day celebration with three days of screenings at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi from 22-24 th April. The Rising Gardens Film Festival began in January 2021 as an online festival […]

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