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Mithila Festival USA 2023: Art for United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Focusing on Gender Equality

Iftikar Ahmed The art of Mithila is well-known all over the globe. With a significant contribution from female artists, Mithila paintings have been around for millennia. The tradition of the art form is to tell stories about mythological and religious occurrences, as well as to serve as decoration and make societal commentary. With artists using

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Met and World Monuments Fund to collaborate on digital project for art galleries

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the World Monuments Fund are going to collaborate on a digital project aiming to strengthen the understanding of several historic sites in sub–Saharan Africa, The Art Newspaper reported. The collaboration will be on the occasion of the reopening of previously antiquated galleries of African, ancient American, and Oceanic art in 2024.

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Now, you can actually smell the flowers in a Jan Brueghel painting at Madrid’s Museo del Prado

Madrid’s Museo del Prado is home to Jan Brueghel the Elder’s 17th-century painting The Sense of Smell, which shows a nude female with a child amid a scene replete with a variety of animals and an abundance of flowers. The painting evokes powerful imagination and encourages the viewers to embark on a life-like appreciation of

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Clocking time: From a hand-drawn journal to contemplations of outer-space, Jitish Kallat’s multi-pronged approach takes us around the universe and back

It has been said that artist Jitish Kallat’s oeuvre sits between ‘fluid speculation’. There is precise measurement and also conceptual conjectures. This produces a range of ‘dynamic forms’ that constitute the process of his image-making. He employs abstract, schematic, notational and representational languages, as he engages with different modes of address, seamlessly interlacing the immediate

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Seasoned and emerging artists come together for Gallery Ark’s last commercial show in Vadodara

Gallery Ark is hosting a group show, Parsec, curated by Nupur Dalmia, in Vadodara till 31st May. The exhibition features works by 19 Indian artists including Aaiushi Beniwal, Alexander Gorlizki, Messrs Prabhakar B. Bhagwat, Deepak Agasthya, Indrapramit Roy, Jyoti Bhatt, K.G. Subramanyan, Kadamboor Neeraj, Kaizad Modi, Mrugen Rathod, Nihaal Faizal, Rekha Rodwittiya, Roshan Chhabria, Sarasija

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Outreach of traditional Indian Art: Mithila paintings find home in an exhibition in America

It is heart-warming to see traditional Indian art getting admired and discussed outside India. Therefore, we were thrilled when we came to know about Tradition and Transformation: Mithila Art of India, an exhibition that will run at the Benton Museum, Connecticut, US, from March 24 to July 30, 2022. Mithila art is an indigenous form

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Liste Art Fair Basel 2021 to host visitors again, announces galleries for the year

The art world is opening up once again. With 84 galleries from 35 countries scheduled to be present at the edgy, contemporary Liste Art Fair Basel 2021 in coming months, we list out details of some developments in this sphere It all began in Switzerland in 1995, when gallerists Eva Presenhuber and Peter Kilchman, both

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