Team L&M Veteran artist Sanjay Bhattacharya has been imbibing and storing many striking images that make up our country, having travelled extensively from east to west and north to south. Although India has changed over the last so many years but the essential elements remain the same, especially in the places of pilgrimage. Bhattacharya’s new journey, […]Read More
The changing ways of dance in cinema Bollywood is over a 100 years old and produces the highest number of films in a year in the world: six-seven movies release every week which means 300-350 movies a year. So can you well imagine if we release so many films in a year, how many of […]Read More
American choreographer and social activist honoured by the German Federal government While dancing in India, be it Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Odissi, Lavni or any classical or folk dance form, dancers wear ghungroos (small metallic bells when tied together make music). These ghungroos, worshipped and taken great care of by the dancers, are placed at the feet […]Read More
Team L&M 47 artists 1 symposium 3 filmmakers 3 masterclasses 6 children’s workshops 1 book launch All this and more can be experienced at the first international ceramic event, The Indian Ceramics Triennale titled Breaking Ground. Launched on August 31 at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, the Triennale will be on display until November 18. Breaking Ground promises to be an […]Read More
There are some artistes who mesmerise on stage through their performance and then there are dancers who play the role of the opposite sex with such ease that it leaves the audience speechless. I am talking about one such superbly talented artiste who portrays both purusha vesham (male form) and stree vesham (female form) with […]Read More
The first day of the two-day art festival, Ekam, curated and organised by the superbly creative Kalashree Lata Surendra opened with Lataji saying, “If the mountain does not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. That’s what this dynamic dance teacher to actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has done, taking art from the confines […]Read More
This beautiful world looks even more beautiful to us because of artistes who show us the various colours of life around. There are different types of artistes in this world. Some are singers, dancers, painters, musicians and many more. But there are a few who are all-in-one. It has been a while that I have […]Read More
The misty town of Panchgani was the venue for 10th Art Getaway of Platform For Artists (PFA), a Pune-based community of artists that focusses on creating inter-disciplinary artwork. The event in the form of a residency, organised in association with Zostel, India’s largest chain of backpackers’ hostels, took place between August 10-12 in the newly […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha For artist Neeti Aggarwal, painting, besides being a passion since childhood, is akin to meditation. The Hardwar-born artist, who recently did a show of her works in the Convention Foyer of India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, says art allows her to rediscover herself “and creating art gives me immense personal gratification. I […]Read More
It is said for a dancer that dance should always be a very spiritual thing, a way that connects him or her to the supreme power, the power that has blessed the dancer with the gift of dance. Each move, each step, each expression slowly and steadily brings the dancer closer to the divine power. […]Read More