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Graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is regarded as one of the world’s most successful street artists, and one of the most successful African-American artists. His career spanned barely 10 years but Jean-Michel Basquiat remains one of the most influential and important contemporary artists today....
Onam saree is known as Kasavu saree. The whole saree is beige or white in color with a gold border. A traditional kasavu onam saree is hand woven from cotton. Nowadays other material onam sarees are woven from tissue silk, tussar silk, crepe are some of the favorites. It's not restricted to just...
The artist Mercedes Vicente took her painting technique and sculpts it improvised shapes with spiral twisted ribbons of fabric that look like whims of Nature. Mercedes’ recent work has focused on investigating the possibilities of constantly developing spiral forms. This piece was inspired by...
The Prize for the most controversial public sculpture 2021 has been claimed by a newly installed 33m high concrete crimson vulva in Brazil. Recessed onto a hillside within a sculpture park in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, Diva, by the Brazilian artist Juliana Notari, intends to question the...
A rare Botticelli portrait at an auction in New York at Sotheby’s on Thursday sold for $92.2 million, making it Rs.6722 million. It has set a new world record by the Italian artist. The price of $92.2 million at the auction was conducted on the phone and online by bidders. This work of the 15th-...
Cedric Grolet is a French pastry chef whose culinary creations are equaly eye-catching as they are tasty. Grolet does a lot of variety in his pastries and his recent innovation is in designing the cake. He tried a new muse, the rubik cube cakes which are creative and colourful. A new face of the...
Kimberley, a remote region of Australia has been in news recently for the oldest rock artwork of kangaroo which dates back to 17,300 years. The two meter long faded image was dated using radiocarbon technique that analysed wasp nests underneath and on top of the ochre-based paint. The kangaroo...
Rithun Kunal celebrated on December 27, his seventh birthday. His parents on the same day evening organized in their house lawn a surprise gathering. There were friends and acquaintances to see his 50 paintings that Rithun had drawn in the lockdown 8 months period. All the paintings got sold within...
L. Ramanujam, 76, passed away in Srirangam. He was an acclaimed teacher and practitioner of Thanjavur painting. He has trained more than 2000 students in Thanjavur painting offering a certificate course. He is a 2014 lifetime achievement award recipient from the Tamil Nadu government. He focused...
A 500-year-old painting is returned to the museum. It was discovered in a flat in Italy. The museum staff was not aware this painting had been stolen. The painting was a copy of Salvator Mundi was painted by Leonardo da Vinci. It was found in Naples in a bedroom cupboard on Saturday. It is...
Any automobile aficionado, especially a Lexus fan, is aware the company promotes its car focusing its design and creativity. It is all about craftsmanship and art. The Zen Garden is the attraction that infers the Japanese classical meditation garden. It is a masterpiece that won the car design...
The grandest spaces in the whole of the mighty Victoria and Albert Museum are the Cast Courts, built high enough to hold a full-scale replica of Trajan’s Column in Rome, which is colossal even in two pieces. No less imposing are the London museum’s 19th-century copies of Michelangelo...
The Electricity Fairy is one of Dufy’s incredible paintings in 600 square feet. It is a colorful marvel chosen for Heritage experiences. It sounded to be Dufy’s new imagination and became the biggest hit as his most remarkable works. Duffy took to revealing the classical time of the 1930s...
Vikas Joshi, a Ludhiana resident, is a passionate artist, and his painting forays in the India Book of Records. He is an investor by profession. In the lockdown months, Vikas Joshi rediscovered his talent and made use of it in his spare time. It was a hard time for everyone and Joshi...
Handlooms and handicrafts in India relate to heritage. Despite social and economic significance, the ground for the Indian handloom industry was taking a side-step. Fortunately, today’s young minds, Ranodeep Saha, initiated a start-up, Rare Planet focused on the uplifting of rural artisans. He...
