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Walking the line to adventure (27 June 09:51) |
| All the works have only been exhibited abroad. Sculptures, paintings, installations and murals by 11 artsist come together in LINK, a new show at Sakshi. |
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Light traces of a new beat motif (27 June 09:51) |
| People jumping around on stage, sudden leaps, mad twirls - it seems as if like chaos reigns. But there is a strange rhythm and grace to the performance. |
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A merchant of drama (27 June 09:49) |
| When Mahesh Dattani's play 30 Days in September completed 100 shows recently, I thought of the late Vijay Tendulkar's essay: In memory of the play I did not write. |
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Touch and gaze (27 June 09:48) |
| Influenced by the traditions and culture of his home state, Bengal, Jogen Chowdhury's work shows off subtle figures in natural surroundings. |
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The art of having a creative soul (21 June 03:23) |
| I can easily do these kind of paintings," boasts a fresher from the local art college at Lakshman Shreshtha's latest show in Mumbai. |
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The city speaks with a German accent (21 June 03:23) |
| Officially, Mumbai, India, and Stuttgart, Germany, have a 40-year-old relationship. |
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Welcoming the monsoon (21 June 03:22) |
| The dry and dusty summer is being pushed away by cool winds and welcome showers which bring new life to the parched earth. |
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A traveller on an age-old musical tour (14 June 03:26) |
| Indian civilisation is like a rainbow with its many colours. Multi-religious and multicultural, this country offers a great deal. |
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Building up an image (14 June 03:25) |
| I seek to locate the consumerist attitude of society in the way I construct and build up my 'images'," says young Prajjwal Choudhury about Drift. |
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Eyes on the tiger (14 June 03:24) |
| Before the performance of his children's play Once Upon a Tiger, Jaimini Pathak announces that the kids can make as much noise as they want. |
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Movie madness of the short kind (06 June 11:46) |
| Shamiana, the short film club started in April 2007, is back with its latest bouquet of short films. Screenings will be held on the first Saturday of every month. |
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Catching up with the world (06 June 11:45) |
| Indian contemporary art is starting to command prices as high as those paid for works by established western artists |
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Chasing the sound in the city (06 June 11:45) |
| Jazz saxophonist Julien Lourau wants to be ambushed by music on his visit to Mumbai, he tells LabonitBefore French jazz saxophonist Julien Lourau arrived in India, he had a plan. In a countr... |
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Holding on to a tune from a time gone by (30 May 07:11) |
| A Mumbai institution for Indian classical music is a treasurehouse of old recordings, finds Amarendra Dhaneshwar. |
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Romancing the stage (30 May 07:09) |
| The Apara Mehta-Feiroz Bhagat pairing works every time - and it's been a dozen Gujarati plays so far that the two have starred in. |
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A reel experiment (30 May 07:08) |
| Cinema of Prayoga looks at films that do not conform to the usual definition of avant-garde. Archita Wagle reports. |
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Waiting for the unexpected (30 May 07:02) |
| The photographs of Martine Franck, widow of Henri Cartier-Bresson, will be on display in Mumbai from June 3. She tells Ramya Sarma about speaking in pictures. |
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Phoenix rising (23 May 08:47) |
| Phoenix, one of the more adventurous ventures in Marathi cinema ever made, will release next month. |
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A perfect balance (23 May 08:46) |
| One of the most prolific stage actors in town and now director Shivani Tanksale says, "It's worked out so far. I adjust, because I am committed to theatre." |
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Speaking in tongues (23 May 08:45) |
| The work of D Ebenezer Sunder Singh in his latest show - called Thus Spake Zarathustra - at the Pundole Art Gallery is a study in contrasts. |
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The lives of others (16 May 10:50) |
| It's hard to describe what one feels walking through Sakshi Gallery's selection of works titled Interface. |
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More than a thousand words (16 May 10:49) |
| Raghu Rai's photographs tell many stories, of people, of places and of lives. He speaks to Ramya Sarma about some special moments he has captured over the years |
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Stringed glory (09 May 10:06) |
| Violinist Milind Raikar is on a journey to spread his music through Europe, says Amarendra Dhaneshwar |
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'Music has magic' (09 May 10:05) |
| Liel Kolet is 18 and an international ambassador of peace. She was raised in a kibbutz in a war-torn parts of Israel. |
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Six degrees of differentiation (09 May 10:03) |
| Six artists in a room; six distinct styles; six unusual versions of the dimensions of our world. There is a search for the divine power, a play with the rhythms of colour. |
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The big fat Indian wedding (09 May 10:02) |
| In his new play Girish Karnad takes a look at the dynamics of the modern Indian middle class family. He tells Deepa Gahlot what the average Indian family dreams about |
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Pulling strings to make a difference (02 May 11:23) |
| A puppet as a gift from her mother when she was nine decided the course of Anurupa Roy's life. She started doing puppet shows at friend's birthday parties. |
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Mapping the travels of time (02 May 11:21) |
| At first, you see a map with all the expected signs and symbols but as you look closer, a hand emerges and slowly a pattern forms. |
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Walking through the jungle (02 May 11:20) |
| German painter Matthias Mansen seems calm and quiet, but when he speaks, you know there's lot to discover - much like his paintings |
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Seeing red and lines (11 April 11:20) |
| Three artists feature in a show at Galerie Mirchandani+Steinruecke: Reena Saini Kallat, Nicola Durvasula and CK Rajan. |
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The Indian abroad (11 April 11:18) |
| Jeet Thayil's introductory essay, The Future Infinitives might be a more appropriate title for the current show of photographs by Gauri Gill: The Americans. |
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A new set of alternative images (11 April 11:17) |
| The festival will showcase young talent from South East Asia, South Korea, China, Japan and South Asia.
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The language of everyday emotions (29 March 03:30) |
| The Rang Sangam Vasant Natyotsav at the Bombay University campus opened with a dazzling tamasha performance by Raghuveer Khedekar, Kantabai Satarkar and their troupe from Ahmednagar. |
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Looking for a Navin (29 March 03:29) |
| If Shakespeare asked Navin Rawanchaikul "What's in a name?", the answer would be an art project, a movement, an exploration of the self and the theme of his latest show, Navinland Cinema.
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'My sound reflects myself' (29 March 03:28) |
| Ludovico Einaudi (52) is an Italian contemporary classical music composer and pianist well known across Europe for his collaborative ventures in music, dance, film and theatre |
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Take a seat (29 March 03:27) |
| Today the chair is ubiquitous, its design based not just on ergonomics and function, but aesthetics. This is seen at The Art & Design Show. |
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Borders of collective memory (15 March 11:00) |
| Political borders mean little in the world of art, except as a theme for creative expression. |
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Strings of thought (15 March 10:58) |
| Jeffrey Krieger, e-cellist and specialist in the performance of 'new music', is principal cellist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Connecticut, USA |
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An Indo-Italian jugalbandi (15 March 10:51) |
| India needs a design language. Ranjona Banerji sits in on a discussion to figure out just what should ideally be done |
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Divine Beats (08 March 10:08) |
| In Rhythm Divine, dancer-choreographer Astad Deboo collaborates with a troupe of Manipuri drummers to express these laws, searching for a heaven on earth through dance on a stage. |
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First Lady of the raga (08 March 10:07) |
| Originally from Assam, she is popular the world over and has been a front-ranking singer of her genre for well over four decades. |
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Brave face of Iran (08 March 10:06) |
| When Abdoulreza Kahani was shooting Adam, his feature film that will be screened at the International Film Festival of Mumbai this week, he was confronted by "a difficult situation". |
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Breaking barriers of a kind (08 March 10:05) |
| Nothing could describe art better than a quote by German writer Goethe: "Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality." |
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Illusions of great grandeur (08 March 10:04) |
| The Photograph : Painted, Posed and of the Moment is perhaps the most significant collection of photography to be shown. |
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A dance of exploration (29 February 09:59) |
| She is an artist who wants to communicate, but not in words. Dipalle Parmar has "always been performing whenever I show my paintings", as a way to "introduce the artist. |
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A vision of the future through a lens (29 February 09:58) |
| David de Souza takes a look at two photography exhibitions - one solo, one a collective effort - currently on in Mumbai |
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Of loss and longing (29 February 09:56) |
| Anju Dodiya has emerged as one of India's most talked about painters. Her paintings on mattresses and her installation at Baroda's Laxmi Vilas Palace last year moved her into a higher league... |
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A play with death (23 February 03:32) |
| Pune-based director Sandesh Kulkarni's Khelimeli explores the world of the dying. Pallavi Kharade reports |
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The celebration of a different colour (23 February 03:30) |
| Mumbai highlights Black History month with films, theatre, dance and music. Archita Wagle has details |
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Images of the great masters (23 February 03:29) |
| Nemai Ghosh has been capturing well known Indian artists at work for years now. But his favourite time was spent with Satyajit Ray. |
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