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Nicolas Chow, deputy chairman for Sothebys Asia, holds an extremely rare Qing Dynasty bowl -- one of only three known to exist -- during a media preview at Sothebys in Hong Kong on April 3, 2018. (Photo: AFP)

Very rare Qing Dynasty bowl sells for $30.4 million

The bowl was created in an imperial workshop within Beijing's Forbidden City by a small team of craftsmen.

4 April 2018 12:14 PM IST

Blood Wedding exposes the artificial system of culture and civilisation and speaks about how the natural rights of an individual are violated by the system.

A play of human emotions, well-portrayed and well-presented at Theatre...

The play is influenced by Goan Maand culture arena structure of performance space and performer-character-gender...

4 April 2018 1:35 AM IST

Each playwright wrestles with it, and more often than not, each director has done at least one play on the unseen life of theatre performers.

The 'shadow' side of theatre: Green Room takes centrestage

This past week I caught two other plays that were once again set in the dressing room of performers.

4 April 2018 1:33 AM IST

It is a Thiruvananthapuram Corporation initiative, funded by SBI as part of Swachh Survekshan, a central government initiative.

The hues of democracy

Artist Ajit Kumar G.'s interpretation of 'Liberty Leading the People' can be seen on a wall of the University Stadium in...

4 April 2018 1:31 AM IST

Sunil Kothari with Kapila Vatsayayan and Joesph Campbell in Honolulu.

Bridging the gap between artistes and the common man

Mulk Raj Anand was perhaps the most influential person in Sunil's development.

3 April 2018 12:56 AM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pexels)

Rare Kabul exhibition brings taste of Mughal art back home

A world authority on Afghan art reminisced about a visit he made to the city at the height of the brutal 1990s civil...

2 April 2018 11:00 AM IST

Rouble and her team have been into this for the past eight years.

Transforming the community through art

Those visits have helped them understand the situation prevailing in such areas and led them to train communities on...

2 April 2018 12:38 AM IST

It was not so before Independence when art used to be an integral part of his life: as ritual, craft, economic and social practice. (Photo: Representational/File)

Reviving contemporary art

Over the past few months, I have been regularly seeing a public installation' under a flyover in Delhi.

2 April 2018 12:38 AM IST

Muralidharan Alagar

Sketching their dreams

Chennai Weekend Artists is a group of people who meet to sketch, draw and paint together.

2 April 2018 12:38 AM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pexels)

Cuban artist switches Havana's neon lights back on

The city, one of the architectural jewels of Latin America, has been enjoying a tourism boom.

28 Feb 2018 2:32 PM IST

The painting had belonged to Kojiro Matsukata, a businessman who collected Western art between 1916 and 1927. (Photo: Pixabay)

Missing Monet returns home to Japan

The oil painting, around two metres long and 4.2 metres wide, was unearthed in the Louvre Museum in Paris in 2016.

27 Feb 2018 7:28 PM IST

The first step of the evening comprised a felicitation honouring Dr Sonal Mansingh followed by solo performances by winner of KKC Elisha Deep Garg followed by runner up Siza Roy.

Celebrating Kathak like never before

On one hand if KKC was an event organised by Maharaj Ji's then Vanaotsava is surely an event organised by all his...

26 Feb 2018 1:20 AM IST