Global News for You – Top News – Current News
“The exhibition is a retelling of where I have been and what I have been through and who I have been with.” That is how Gireesh Gopinathan frames his solo photo exhibition, Panoramas But Not Quite, which begins on November 28 at College of Fine Arts Thiruvananthapuram. This veteran photojournalist from Thiruvananthapuram is a trained…
In Delhi’s Defence Colony, a neighbourhood now humming with more than a dozen galleries, XXL is the newest arrival. Dedicated to what it calls “urban contemporary art,” and to artists who think and create on an extra-extra-large scale, both in medium and ambition, the gallery’s debut show feels at once monumental and intimate. Sabr, Ghar,…
Legendary American photographer Ansel Adams once said, “Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer — and often the supreme disappointment.” It is a line that sums up the quiet brutality of the genre, and one that Chennai-based photographer Srinivasan Periathiruvadi relates to immediately. “The challenge with landscape photography is that it requires a…
For nearly three decades, Pune-based artist Neena Singh led parallel lives. One followed the structure and discipline of a civil servant, while the other unfolded through colour and texture. It was only in her late 30s that she began painting seriously, teaching herself to translate her feelings into form. What began as a personal refuge…
From A Walk Through the Wild | Photo Credit: S Prashanth “There is a story in every frame,” says S Prashanth. The Bengaluru-based photographer is exhibiting images of animals and birds he has seen up close in the wild. The show titled, A Walk Through the Wild: Captured In Time, is a collection of sightings…
A cartoon by Ravikanth Nandula News in a nutshell is not a social media, modern-day occurrence. Back in the day, newspapers would bring out pocket cartoons or single panel illustrations that captured the gist of current affairs in a pithy, witty way. Pocket, an exhibition by Ravikanth Nandula, showcases the best of the artist’s…
The first unobstructed view of the Taj Mahal from the Darwaza-i-Rauza (grand entranceway) is one of the most recognised images from India. However, the image would have looked strikingly different had Mughal emperor Shah Jahan’s original vision endured. The manicured lawns of today, that follow the Char Bagh design, had in the original layout featured…
German journalist Michael Gleich’s photo exhibition Silence Alive: the Global Culture of Farewell, currently on at the Napier Museum grounds in Thiruvananthapuram, is an ode to the departed. Remainders of demise, captured on camera, occupy the Bandstand located on the Museum premises. The exhibition, organised by the Goethe-Zentrum Trivandrum, is a collection of Michael’s works…
Red suffused Travancore House in New Delhi. Crimson drapes floated from the roof and two huge paintings in red and gold, created live at the venue, towered over the entrance. Inside, a life-sized black-and-white cutout of a woman stood glowering, covered with text related to the gang rape of Jyoti Singh, the 23-year-old physiotherapy student,…
Red suffused Travancore House in New Delhi. Crimson drapes floated from the roof and two huge paintings in red and gold, created live at the venue, towered over the entrance. Inside, a life-sized black-and-white cutout of a woman stood glowering, covered with text related to the gang rape of Jyoti Singh, the 23-year-old physiotherapy student,…
