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Proma Chakraborty -October 27, 2020

Bringing together the works of two diverse artists, Chitra Ganesh and Manjunath Kamath, Gallery Espace is hosting a unique online exhibition on Art In Touch  Two artists with very different visual vocabularies are comparable in the way both use pastiche and fantasy to interrogate reality and open new ways of considering the world Gallery Espace […]

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Proma Chakraborty -October 20, 2020

Latitude 28’s exhibition ‘When is Empathy too much’  reflects on the implications of the increasing reliance of the people on their virtual presence, spurred on by the pandemic The one thing that has been made the most use of, across sectors, during the pandemic is virtual technology. Physical interactions have been replaced with virtual engagements, […]

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Proma Chakraborty -October 20, 2020

Reopening doors What: After a very long wait, Triveni Kala Sangam has finally reopened its galleries with an additional viewing platform of online ‘Virtual Walk Through with 360* view’ tour of the gallery. As new relationships and connections are being formed between the arts and its viewers on this new platform, the gallery is offering […]

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Proma Chakraborty -October 14, 2020

Drawing scars What: ‘The wound is the place where the light enters you’ – these words by Rumi, which informs the title, capture the dilemma of our times when malady has become a part of our daily existence, pointing us towards wisdom and magnificence instead of receding into our pain. A group of artists have […]

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Proma Chakraborty -October 7, 2020

Commemorating Raphael on his 500th death anniversary, India International Centre is hosting an online exhibition of his works Master painter and architect of Italian High Renaissance, Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) is one of the most influential artists in history. To commemorate his 500th death anniversary, an exhibition of selected drawings of the Renaissance Master can be […]

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Proma Chakraborty -October 7, 2020

Capturing Gandhi What: A rare and intimate archive of photographs of one of history’s most public figures – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi — captured by Kanu Gandhi, can be viewed online. Born in 1917, Kanu, the Mahatma’s grandnephew, spent his formative years at Sabarmati Ashram. In the mid-1930s, he joined the Mahatma’s personal staff in Sevagram […]

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Proma Chakraborty -September 30, 2020

Turning the lockdown into an opportunity, Tanmoy Samanta gave new life to everyday objects through his art Chair, comb, telephone, sewing machine – the most mundane domestic things lying around in the house, aren’t just so ordinary for artist Tanmoy Samanta. During the pandemic, staying at home, these regular objects are not restricted to being […]

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Proma Chakraborty -October 18, 2019

For anyone living in the Capital, the first thought that comes to their mind when they hear the word ‘magenta’ would be the Metro lines. Taking a cue from this and paying a tribute to the same, Centre for Art and Free Expression (CAFE) in Jamia Nagar named their gallery space Gallery Magenta.

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