Art & Culture News

India to hold biggest-ever art summit in August

India will join the ranks of global art hubs like Basel in Switzerland and Miami in the US with its first multi-disciplinary global art fair, the India Art Summit, here August 22-24.9:31 PM on July 08

Kalka-Shimla rail line bags Unesco heritage status

The century-old Kalka-Shimla rail line, a 96-km-long narrow gauge railroad built to ferry Europeans to and from this hill town - then the summer capital of British India, has been chosen by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) as a world heritage site.2:32 PM on July 08

Probing frontiers of womanhood through art

Womanhood is like a riot of colours and each shade reflects a particular mood and a phase in life - and this is what is portrayed in the works of a Malayali artist collectively titled 'Stree (Tracing 20 years)'.2:02 PM on July 08

Bhopal gas victims take the musical route to protest

Bhopal gas tragedy victims, who have been protesting in the capital to demand rehabilitation and compensation for themselves and their children, have now found a new way to voice their demands and express their anguish - music.6:01 PM on July 07

Intrepid French woman unveiled Tibet for the world

The 73rd birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama is being marked by the University of Madras and Alliance Francaise here Sunday with a three-day festival of Tibetan culture.7:30 PM on July 06

Preserving Mughal architecture with American help

The splendour of Mughal architecture - its mosques, tombs and other structures - is in danger of being lost to neglect and pillage of time but an American university has taken up the task of documentation of neglected Islamic monuments in India.12:00 PM on July 06

Films, photos, art to mark World Tibet Day Sunday

Dance, drama, films, fiery speeches and photo and art exhibitions - the capital will experience all this and more on Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama's birthday Sunday, which is celebrated as World Tibet Day.6:00 PM on July 04

America's oldest musical choir regales with classics

What happens when a Yale man meets a roomful of cheering Indians on the eve of American Independence Day? They make music, sip Coke, dig into pizzas with a slice of American scholastic heritage.10:00 AM on July 04

Student volunteers to preserve India's heritage: minister

The culture ministry has submitted an ambitious programme to the Planning Commission to educate students in nearly 12,000 senior secondary schools and 5,000 colleges across the country on the rich cultural history of India.1:00 AM on July 03

Teenaged Italian piano prodigy finds India wonderful

Considered one of the best pianists in Italy, 16-year-old Leonora Armellini, who burst upon the capital's musical stage like a storm, says she was surprised by how much India understands 'our music'.11:00 AM on July 01

Exposure makes Indian art prices gallop in global mart

The price curve of Indian art is shooting north in the global market because of 'increased consciousness' about it, say experts.11:00 AM on June 28

Tihar inmates paint stark images against drug abuse

Drugs as the mythological demon Ravan, alcohol as poisonous snakes, a funeral pyre made of cigarette butts...Such stark illustrations have come out of the minds of prisoners at Delhi's Tihar Jail, especially drug addicts.10:31 AM on June 28

Painter Paritosh Sen receives Legends of India award

Eminent painter Paritosh Sen was conferred the Legends of India Lifetime Achievement Award for Fine Arts 2008 by West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi here Friday evening.10:30 PM on June 27

Indians have taken freedom for granted: Ansari

Indians have taken their freedom for granted, Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari lamented Thursday, calling for efforts to ensure that the sacrifices of those who had fought for the country's independence were remembered by successive generations.12:32 AM on June 27

For 32 slum kids, theatre workshop is a revelation

They live in the Indian capital but had never heard of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. Now an all-Muslim cast of 32 slum children is set to stage a play on the revolutionary - an effort that has changed their own lives in so many ways.12:30 PM on June 26