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Amid intermittent lockdowns, artists use objects at home to create quirky work

From doodling on stones to making a red sand desert out of masala powder, artists are using their creativity and readily available objects at home to create interesting work during lockdown

The online exhibition being hosted by Visakhapatnam-based Vivid Photography has entries from photographers from across the country.

A virtual photo expo in the time of pandemic

Nivedita Ganguly It presents myriad shades of emotions, architectural splendour and the nature

The many travails during a pandemic; painting by Vinay Kumar

COVID-19: Artistic outpourings amid a pandemic

Sangeetha Devi Dundoo ‘COVID Expressions’ showcases diverse views of the pandemic by the Hyderabad art community

Vivek’s pencil sketch of a young Ronaldinho

Why football icon Ronaldinho ‘follows’ this Kerala teenager on Instagram

Harikumar J S Nineteen-year-old Malappuram artist Vivek P T’s pencil portraits of the Brazilian star elicited a response from the soccer legend himself who liked and commented on the artwork

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Amid intermittent lockdowns, artists use objects at home to create quirky work

Travel: why write when you can illustrate?

Ebrahim Alkazi (1925-2020): A lodestar in India’s arts firmament

Women artists to the fore

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Virtual tour of Abanindranath Tagore’s works

Why football icon Ronaldinho ‘follows’ this Kerala teenager on Instagram

COVID-19: Artistic outpourings amid a pandemic

‘COVID Expressions’ showcases diverse views of the pandemic by the Hyderabad art community

A virtual photo expo in the time of pandemic

It presents myriad shades of emotions, architectural splendour and the nature

How The Artist Project is supporting rural artisans during the pandemic

Chennai-based The Artist Project holds affordable auctions of artwork on Instagram to help rural artisans

Through art and poetry, this digital exhibit captures lockdown and its many aspects

Through a unique amalgam of art and poetry, Held — The Lockdown in Words and Images, encapsulates the responses of four artistes to the ‘new normal’

Triumph of virtue

The novel Madidunno Maharaya talks about corruption and ill-treatment of women, and discusses learning and education

A poem coming alive

K.V. Iyer had a beautiful body and also a beautiful mind. His contribution to the city is immense

Animals spell out COVID-19 precautions and protest draft EIA 2020 in Pune-based artist’s work

Pune-based wildlife illustrator Rohan Dahotre’s works sport detailing in technique and purpose in content

Quiz: Easy like Sunday morning

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols: Ralph Waldo Emerson

How this Kerala artiste is bringing back Seethakali

T N Shajimon wins Kerala Folklore Akademi award for reviving ‘Seethakali’, a female-oriented Dalit narrative of the Ramayana

Wonder Woman with jhumkas and a dupatta? This artist says, why not

Meet Delhi-based graphic artist Deepak Bhatt whose culturally evocative incarnation of Diana Prince got him recognised by DC Comics and Warner Bros

Shivarama Chary, the man who turned found objects to art

One of Hyderabad’s best known sculptors, Y Shivarama Chary, who succumbed to COVID-19 recently, leaves behind fond memories and an impressive line of work

‘New Stories in Old Frames’ virtual exhibition by Dhi Artspace

The group show showcases miniatures conveying concerns of contemporary times

Spot where Van Gogh painted his last canvas 'discovered'

Experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam have backed the finding, saying it was “an interpretation, but it looks like indeed it is true.”

#ForYourMind: music and art in aid of mental health

Raghav Meattle, Hanita Bhambri, Vibhav Singh, Swarathma... artists and musicians across the country are putting their work on sale for the cause of mental health

How Presel Divakaran captured collective childhoods with his art

A viral photograph inspires an artist to imagine the new reality of online education through the mind of a child

Kerala photographer’s alluring monochromatic images of wildlife

Photographer Praveen P Mohandas brings out alluring details of Indian wildlife by taking colour out of the equation

Adolescence in conflict zones: an illustrated children’s book by Priya Sebastian

‘Is It The Same For You?’ paints an intimate portrait about growing up in a fragile part of the world

Layers of marginalization

Through Sumanasa Foundation, T.M. Krishna and friends have been reaching out to the community of artistes who have been badly affected by the pandemic. He says the philosophical is as scary as the real

‘Jugaari’ Brothers to launch OTT platform called Katte Entertainment

BengaluruToday is legendary ‘Hasya Chakravarthy’ Narasimha Raju’s 98th birthday. As a tribute to the late actor, his grandsons — SD Arvinda and

‘Rangashankara is a safety valve’

Rangashankara, like all other theatres across the world, has shut down. Arundhati Nag, the founder of this theatre space, says that these have been months on introspection. When it reopens, she hopes it will have the heart and comfort of home

How this photographer ‘paints’ using light

Lensman Anoop Upaasana from Kerala uses a torchlight to create painting-like images with long exposure shots

Colouring in scenes from India

Through Rang De, Priyadarshini Jain advocates using folk colouring canvases as stress busters

Lockdown and shutdown

Kannada Film industry is going through unprecedented times. Will this situation ever return to normal?

All for a prize

Venkatesha Tirako Kulakarni ‘Galaganatha’, translator of historical novels and an architect of the Kannada novel

‘I want to be known as a storyteller rather than a comedian’: Sundeep Rao

Sundeep talks about sharing inspiring stories in his latest Spotify original podcast Life Gone Wrong

One meditative stroke at a time, art therapy classes go virtual

Art therapists, exploring virtual classes to help clients cope with anxiety, discuss the highs and lows of online counselling

‘What could possibly be more important to us than Nature?’: Prakash Belawadi

The veteran actor talks about the pressing need to change our lifestyle, the post-pandemic future of theatre and more

Ever wanted to try journalling? No time like the present

Journallers, part of a growing creator community, talk about how this form of ‘diary keeping’ has become more popular during lockdown and how it helps mentally

Gurudas Shenoy: ‘This break has been a blessing’

Bengaluru-based artist Gurudas Shenoy, who created 15 works in the lockdown, says the quietude helped him converse with his brush ‘unhurriedly’

Artists use digital illustrations to support nature, wildlife and conservation

Be it habitat loss of birds or plastic waste choking marine life, a new breed of artists make their voices heard with their digital artwork

Jyotsna Bhatt: High priestess of fire and clay

With the passing of Jyotsna Bhatt, India has lost a doyen of ceramic arts, with the spontaneity of clay and the marvels of expression speaking through her owls and smiling cats

NIFT Hyderabad students tell COVID-19 story through Cheriyal art

A unique craft initiative helped students learn and make products sporting the traditional art

Remembrance of things past

Nupura’s presentation of Samsmarane was an evocative portrayal of vintage dance pieces

A man of many interests

Bellave Venkatanaranappa, a science and mathematics teacher, contributed hugely to science and the city

Enthusiasm undimished at 90

M.S. Sathyu filmmaker, theatre and art director turned 90 on July 6. His films gave a twist to the profile of Indian cinema

Law as the epics propound it

Webinar by Justice V. Ramasubramanian explained how legal principles could be drawn from ancient scriptures

The tale of 2020: How Indian storytellers are taking their art online

Indian storytellers are recording this period in history, and modifying their medium and content to provide entertainment as well as talk therapy to restive kids and adults

In these Raja Ravi Varma portraits, Army wives are the muses

Photographer Garima Dixit’s recreated works of the renowned painter display a mastery of light and aesthetics

Rohit Bhasi depicts characters from the epics in a contemporary setting on his Facebook page and Instagram account, indigoranges

Rohit’s repertoire, some embellished with short descriptions, showcases his illustrations of characters and situations, real and mythical

Young and vibrant

Musician M.S. Deepak is a competent artiste who can play the mandolin and render Carnatic vocal

The Kannadiga Holmes

Kerur Vasudevacharya’s Sherlock Holmes stories in Kannada

The thumbprint quilt project: how designer Jayshree Poddar is turning hand-painted kora fabrics into quilts for children

How hand-painted kora fabrics from Jayshree Poddar’s workshop with children at Aim for Seva are being turned into infant and toddler quilts

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