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Day 1 of the fifth edition of Abhivyakti: The City Arts Project of Torrent Group’s UNM Foundation was a resounding success, with art lovers of all age groups and social strata flocking to the Upasana School of Performing Arts at Gujarat University Campus to witness the captivating folk fusion performance and thought-provoking visual art installations. […]
In 1994, Japanese designer Kenya Hara asked a group of architects to come up with alternate designs for pasta, keeping in mind a few basic rules: the pasta needed to have an even surface area to allow for uniform heat transfer and a shape that allowed the sauce to stick. The architects came up with […]
Augmented reality has been around for a while and can be quite amusing. I remember getting a link to an app that allowed me to pick from a range of animal pictures and then use my phone camera to click a pic of the animal placed in my house. This was during the lockdown and […]
While her brother Bimal Patel is the architect for the Central Vista project in Delhi, Canna Patel is the interior designer. The project includes the Prime Minister’s house, so we ask: what kind of interior décor has Narendra Modi asked for? Is he going for bright red, orange and yellow Gujarati hues, with Kutch embroidery […]
Abhivyakti – The City Arts Project is an initiative of the UNM Foundation of the Mehta family of the Torrent Group. After completing four successful editions in Ahmedabad, Abhivyakti will organise its first performance at Alembic Art District, in Vadodara on September 30 and October 1, 2023. Till date the festival has witnessed participation from […]
Veteran artist Amrut Patel’s “Abstract Alchemy” exhibition opened to a full house at the Hutheesing Centre on Thursday, with most of Ahmedabad’s art world in attendance. The Ahmedabad-born painter, who graduated from CN Art School, has lived and worked in Delhi for the past 45 years, was felicitated at the inauguration by fellow artists Amit […]
It’s back and it’s even more unique this time around. Abhivyakti, The City Arts Project – Ahmedabad, has announced its fifth edition and the theme this year is ‘Every Story Matters’. The Abhivyakti festival is the brainchild and an endeavour of the UNM Foundation of the Torrent Group’s Mehta family. Keeping with the family’s ethos to give […]
Famous Japanese manga and anime creator Leiji Matsumoto, who penned epic space sagas like “Galaxy Express 999” and “Space Pirate Captain Harlock,” is no more, his office announced on Monday. According to local media, heart failure was the cause of death. Matsumoto, 85, was also well-known for his collaboration with Yoshinobu Nishizaki on the TV […]
There are a significant amount of beauties in our surroundings. As we look around us, things will appear in front of us and mesmerise us. We are proceeding into modernisation and there are very few artists who believe that they owe something to nature as they depict our surroundings in their variety of artforms. One […]
In order to celebrate 75 years of diplomatic ties between India and Nepal, the Embassy of India in Kathmandu organised a music concert “Sangeet Sukoon” on Friday featuring performances by the Indian band Carnatic 2.0 and Nepali band Kutumba. The event also marked 75 years of India’s Independence and the 74th Republic Day of India. […]
The Japanese Manga is an art form of pictorial storytelling and now, you experience a glimpse of this revolutionary art in Ahmedabad. To mark the 70th anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and India–the Consulate-General of Japan in Mumbai has organised the international travelling exhibition in Ahmedabad. This was earlier on display […]
An exhibition by Kolkata-based artist Chandana Hore, which depicts the realities of women and their everyday struggle, debuted on Tuesday at the Amdavad ni Gufa in Ahmedabad. She has exhibited pieces from her college years in the exhibition “Strings & Strands.” In the 1990s, Hore attended the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT). “I […]
Love it or hate it, Ahmedabadis can’t ignore the work of architect Kamal Mangaldas and engineer Devendra Shah. As partners in Design Associates, they built hundreds of buildings in the 40-odd years they worked together, which are a hallmark of the city today. They are the ones who introduced the ubiquitous row house (a concept […]
The second Shaame Art show was inaugurated with fanfare at the Hutheesing Centre in Ahmedabad on Thursday evening, with actor Aarjav Trivedi as the chief guest. The first Shaame Art show was held in December last year and the Hutheesing Centre now plans to make it a bi-annual event. “We want to make it a […]
Upon receiving an invitation for the opening of an exhibition of photographs at the Hutheesing Centre on Thursday, I lazily typed in the name of the photographer into Google, Parvez Shaikh is a pretty generic name (I know a doctor by that name in Mumbai) and even with “documentary photographer” added, I wasn’t expecting much. […]
Raja Ravi Verma is known as the “Father of Modern Indian Art,” and only persons with deep pockets can afford to buy his inimitable art. It should therefore not come as a surprise that his classic painting, was auctioned for Rs 21.16 crore, more than 130 years after it was created. On April 6, a […]
Sleep is a basic human need. Nobody can carry on with life without it. To attempt a play on this theme is obviously a challenging task. Gujarat based writer and director Harsh Shodhan’s latest Gujarati play with a catchy name ‘Shubhratri (Good Night) revolves around the theme of sleep or sleep deficiency. The play is […]
In 1959, Amit Ambalal got his first pichwai. It cost him Rs 150, a huge amount then. When he brought the Shrinathji pichwai home, his father frowned at him. He said, “Why did you spend so much money on this rugged cloth?”The pichwai–large devotional Hindu painted pictures, normally on cloth, which portray Krishna–is still hanging […]
Renowned poet from Pakistan, Ahmad Farhad organized an online Mushaira on Sunday where 11 Indian poets performed along with 11 Pakistani poets online on the Clubhouse App. Ahmad Farhad commands a good fan following in India and Pakistan for his Urdu poetry. Farhad Invited Indian poetess Alina Itrat, Pakistani poet Saghir Safi along with Pakistani […]
Born in 1902, Bapsybanno Pavry was the fashion icon of her time. She was a page 3 socialite and the only Indian Marchioness ever. She divided her time between London and Mumbai and used to make public appearances in stunning sarees. She would drape her saree in the most elegant yet stylish ways and used […]
