The National, highlighting the mushrooming of several cultural players in the country.
“However, in the UAE, our arts ecosystem is growing much more rapidly in comparison with others, reaching a level of maturity now with a layering effect, which is needed for sustainable growth.
“In Sharjah, we see a great example of, over decades of work, establishing small and large institutions with government support and consistency with public programmes for all audiences to enjoy cultural life,” she says
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an important figure in modern Arab art.
Ms Jurkute, who has been part of the Alserkal organisation since 2012, oversaw the launch of
Vivek Vilasini’s last supper April 8, 2021, 9:59 PM IST
Critic and Curator Uma Nair has been writing for the past 31 years on art and culture She has written as critic for Times of India and Economic Times. She believes that art is a progressive sojourn. And there are those who are taught and those who are self taught. She herself had learnt by looking at the best shows in Washington D.C. and New York. And life is about learning and growing. LESS. MORE
A recent email about a series of Indian artists painting The Last Supper took me back to a few years ago when Vivek Vilasini’s dramatic photograph of Last Supper with 13 Kathakali dancers sitting at a table with the Kerala sadya on banana leaves drew admiration and smiles and gentle satirical banter at the India Art Fair in 2012. Vilasini did one more after that -he created a masterpiece with 13 burqa clad women and called it Last Supper -Gaza. It became a world wide comment on the place of the prophet of peac
The Bengaluru museum’s collection of over 18,000 artworks is now online. Plus, a Museums Without Borders initiative will give access to 50 international institutions
The pandemic may have pushed Bengaluru’s Museum of Art & Photography’s (MAP) plans to house itself in a state-of-the-art facility to 2021, but it has started welcoming audiences virtually. Launched on December 5 with a week-long virtual festival titled
Art (is) Life, it features interactive exhibitions with slide shows, short films, downloadable activity worksheets, and video streams of their past events.
What also sets this digital venture apart is the launch of Museums Without Borders (MWB). A collaboration with 50 international institutions, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, the initiative will juxtapose a pair of objects one from their collection and one from MAP’s to discover connections based on theme, medium or period.