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Kovai Guna | Photo Credit: Sun Television Television personality, comedian, and mimicry artist Kovai Guna passed away today. According to reports, Guna had been taking treatment for over a year at a private hospital in Coimbatore. Guna broke out after his mesmerizing mimicry performances in the Vijay Television show Kalakka Povadhu Yaaru, He then shot … Read More “Kovai Guna, comedian and mimicry artist, passes away” »
What you need to know: Naoko Misaki, who starred in Love Live! Chisato is voiced by Arashi! supper star !! and school idol group Leela! Hulick Hall announced during her birthday concert in Tokyo that she would be making her solo debut with Lantis. As her first step as a solo artist, she has opened … Read More “love live! supper star !! Chisato v Naoko Misaki will make her solo artist debut with Lantis on July 5th! new cast photo released” »
File picture of manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, who died of acute heart failure in a Tokyo hospital on February 13, 2023 | Photo Credit: AP Leiji Matsumoto, the anime creator known for Space Battleship Yamato and other classics using a fantastical style and antiwar themes, has died at age 85. His manga works Galaxy Express … Read More “Legendary manga artist Leiji Matsumoto dies” »
Govardhan by Siddharth Shingade | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Homesickness can be as good a muse as any and for Mumbai-based artist Siddharth Shingade, it certainly was. In Secrets of the Soil, his ongoing solo exhibition in Bengaluru, the artist has captured the sights, sounds and wonders of his hometown. Siddharth Shingade | Photo Credit: … Read More “Artist Siddharth Shingade on his series Secrets of the Soil” »
One of KP Reji’s works on show | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Baroda-based artist KP Reji turns 50 in 2022, a good time for a mid-career retrospective of his creative journey. Seeing his works from the mid to late 1990s when he was still a student of art one gets to see how far he … Read More “Retrospective of Kerala artist KP Reji takes a look at his evolution as an artist” »
Beyonce accepts the award for best dance/electronic music album for “Renaissance” at the 65th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. , Photo Credit: AP Beyoncé stands alone on her Grammy throne: With her fourth win, she has become the most decorated artist in the show’s history surpassing the 26-year-old record once held by the late … Read More “Grammys 2023: Beyoncé makes history, becomes most-decorated artist” »
Beatrice Forshall says it took her about three-and-a-half years of working full-time to finish the book. , Photo Credit: James Forshall Beatrice Forshall spent her childhood in France and Catalonia. A practitioner of the ancient art of engraving and printmaking, and a former artist-in-residence at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, her debut book, The Book of … Read More “Artist and printmaker Beatrice Forshall’s The Book of Vanishing Species draws attention to 69 threatened creatures” »
By Arjun Das | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Arjun Das draws from his own identity as a first-generation migrant from Jharkhand, to Kolkata. His solo show, Land of the Leal at Hyderabad’s Dhi Artspace provides glimpses of spaces inhabited by the migrant working class in cities. In search of a better life and livelihood, most … Read More “Migration and memories at the heart of artist Arjun Das’ works in Hyderabad” »
Vijay Sethupathi | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The association between photographers L Ramachandran and Vijay Sethupathi has become an annual feature. In 2020, the duo came up with Humans, a calendar that captured the mood of the lockdown. Kalaignan, in 2021, was a tribute to the folk artists of Tamil Nadu. And, the recently released … Read More “In photographer L Ramachandran’s new calendar, Vijay Sethupathi shows different shades of an artist” »
An Argentinian PlaBot in a glass cloche | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT PlaBots, ‘pla’ from plastic and ‘bot’ from bottles, pocket-size ‘footballers’ made of PET bottles, are the creations of Malayali artist Swapna Namboodiri from Qatar. Made of plastic and wire, these 18-centimetre figures are representations of football players — identifiable by their jerseys. As … Read More “Qatar-based Malayali sustainability artist fashions figurines of football players out of PET bottles to start a conversation about pollution” »