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A Portal With A Global Art Show 'www.thefuschiatree.com.'


By Nishant, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 12:23:09 AM EST

Want to buy a piece of global art at rock bottom prices which can go with your home décor? Or further, want to exchange a piece of art which has gone old as per the décor of your home or office? Well yes, there is a solution to it all at The Fuschia Tree, a state-of-the-art web gallery.

The Fuschia Tree would be announcing its entry into the art world on Wednesday by creating a unique mélange of stylishly conceptualised artistic variety in its very first art and décor show titled Mint Green. The show would be on from September 24 to October 8 at The Attic at Regal Building in Connaught Place here and can also be viewed simultaneously on www.thefuschiatree.com.

Says Chanda Chaudhary Barrai, director, The Fuschia Tree, "International trends suggest that Mint Green is the next colour of the season and, therefore, we bring a heady blend of classical, contemporary and cutting edge art and décor elements with international sensibility. By combining the diversity and integrity of art and design, we aim to bring forth enormous creative energy which is unique and irreplaceable in nature. This exhibition fuses the old and the new and crosses over to a new dimension where Indian and international art from Russia, Peru, Botswana, Africa, Pakistan and Thailand, a few to name, will be showcased in a single space."

Since Mint Green is the hottest colour of décor worldwide, the forthcoming exhibition showcases selected 40 artworks from across the globe...all in varying hues of the colour `green'. And the best part is one can exchange the artwork with another as the season or style changes, with a 100 per cent authenticity and resale assurance guarantee!

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State To Organise Handicrafts Fair From Sunday For The Benefit Of The Artisans


By Shashank, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 04:49:53 AM EST

The West Bengal government is organising a handicrafts fair from from August 9 to showcase the state’s handicrafts and facilitate their marketing for the benefit of the artisans.

The fair, which would continue till August 24, is the third in a series of six such fairs during this year.

“Two such fairs were held at the Eastern Zonal CulturalCentre (EZCC) and the rest four would also be held there,” said Micro and Small Scale Enterprises and Textiles Minister Manabendra Mukherjee.

The fair would be held to promote cane, bamboo and wood crafts in the state and is named as “Bengal Cane,Bamboo and Wood Crafts Fair”, said the minister. The first fair was organised in April and covered all major handicrafts products of the state. Nearly 80 artisans from different districts had participated in the fair.

Total sale in the fair was Rs 22.04 lakh, while the artisans got contracts for bulk purchases and exports, he said.

The second fair — ‘Bengal Terracotta Fair’— was organised from May 31 to June 15 for display and sale of terracotta products.

Nearly 70 terracotta artisans had participated in the fair, which saw the total sale of Rs 24.24 lakh. Two workshops on ‘Design Development’ and ‘Export Awareness’ were also organised for the artisans in that fair.

Source: Press Trust Of India 07/Aug/2008

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Kolkata-Based Pianist's Musical Gift To City On June 4 And 5


By Mrs Gupta, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Tue Jun 03, 2008 at 04:41:52 AM EST

After a long time, the city will witness a full-fledged musical on stage for two days at GD Birla Sabhagar on June 4 and 5. Based on the famous legend of Jack the Ripper, this musical `Jack' will be a feast for the senses because it is a combination of theatre, cinema and opera. The musical is being presented by The Times of India.

`Jack' is the brainchild of gifted city-based pianist Pradyumna Manot, who has accompanied famous musicians like Pandit Visvamohan Bhatt as the latter played his Mohanveena. Manot is also part of the famous band, Saturday Night Blues, and has interest in Latin jazz.

The play is being directed by Amar Daing, who is well known in the theatre circuit of the city and has also staged plays abroad and the script is written by Chaitanya Manot. There are at least 11 songs in the musical and the choreography has been done by Shruti Mishra.

"We have adopted new techniques in this musical -- the way the stage movements have been designed, the effect of the rotating camera and the special light and sound effects have not been tried out before," promises Pradyumna. He says this musical will inspire many others in the future and soon musicals will become a genre that the city will look forward to every season.

Source: TIMES NEWS NETWORK

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Kolkata Set To Host India-Russia Art Show


By Sumit Kumar, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Sun Jan 27, 2008 at 04:26:08 AM EST

Whe Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed a protocol to celebrate 2008 as the 'Year of Russia in India' and 2009 as the 'Year of India in Russia', they were looking at an exploration of bilateral relations at both public and private fronts.

But what was perhaps not anticipated at that point is that the first event to mark this momentous initiative would be a private one.

An art and photo exhibition at Kolkata's Gorky Sadan on January 29, organised jointly by the Russian Centre of Science & Culture and Asia Centre, Kolkata, could well be the first step in implementing this protocol of friendship that was signed in New Delhi a year ago.

"That the Asia Centre, a private non-profit organization, is joining the Russian Centre in organising the event makes it a significant example of a private initiative in public diplomacy," explains K.EY Nair, director, Asia centre, whose personal art collection forms the backbone of the display.

The collection of rare paintings and photographs by Nair during his three visits to remote regions of Siberian Russia gives interesting insights into the uniquely multicultural society that Russia is and is titled 'Colours of Russia (Where Asia meets Europe)'.

Source: HT, January-27-2008

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The Benefits Of Special Economic Zones Seem To Be A Mirage Says Center For Policy Research


By Mr Basu, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 04:38:01 AM EST

Special Economic Zones(SEZs) were conceived as delimited areas with highquality infrastructure and efficient administrative governance. However, the spotlight has thus far been on the cost of the various tax benefits and the implications of land acquisition. While important and emotive, focusing solely on them neglects the credibility of the promised offsetting benefits.

Before notifying an SEZ, the Central Board of Approvals, i.e. the Commerce Secretary, 16 other officers of the central government and a nominee of the state government, scrutinises the application. According to these applications, SEZs are expected to generate 2.1 million direct and 2.9 million indirect jobs. These have been widely quoted by the Commerce Ministry in support of SEZs. Are these commitments credible?

At the outset, while data on name, location, area and type is available for all SEZs, availability of other data mandated in the SEZ application, varies widely The most data available is for direct and indirect jobs and investment by developers, and even this is given only for 110, 82 and 109 out of 154 SEZs respectively; and just 15 SEZs provide data on foreign direct investment. This itself makes the approval process appear cavalier, with little real scrutiny.

Second, most SEZs and jobs are in the Information Technology/Information Technology-Enabled Services (ITES) sector Of the 2.1 million direct jobs, 61 per cent in this sector and another 15 per cent is in existing export sectors like apparel, textiles, gems and jewellery footwear and pharmaceuticals. Only 21 per cent is in multiproduct SEZs, the supposed mecca of manufacturing. It thus appears that SEZs merely perpetuate benefits for the IT sector and do little to diversify our exports. Is all this support to already successful industries worth it?

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Kolkata To Host Its First Ever Art Auction Next Year


By siddharth22, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Wed Nov 21, 2007 at 12:12:25 AM EST

Kolkata is close to bringing its first art auction to India and the world. Emami Chisel Art, an auction house floated as a collaborative venture between the well-known Emami Group and Chisel Crafts, is coming with its maiden auction in mid-February 2008. Incidentally, Chisel Crafts is the parent company of the city's well-known Aakriti Art Gallery. This auction will focus on modern and contemporary art and include names from across the country.

"The auction is tipped to have a spread of about 80-100 lots covering modern and contemporary artists. We have begun sourcing works from collectors who are based in different parts countrywide.

The auction will be held on February 16. This will be when it will go on floor and held live. But, the bidding process will be rolled out online five days in advance. Thus, the sale is targeted to embrace bidders from India and around the world," Vikram Bachhawat, director, Emami Chisel Art, told ET.

The auction house has kept December 15, 2007 as the cut off date for accepting consignments from collectors, galleries and artists. In turn, the paintings, which will finally go under the hammer will be picked by a panel of experts by around end-December 2007. Although the artworks are now coming in, some of the artists who are on the anvil embrace MF Husain, SH Raza, FN Souza, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Ganesh Pyne, Shyamal Datta Ray and B Prabha. In tandem, some of the younger names include Sekhar Roy, Manish Pushkale, Farhad Hussain, Chhatrapati Dutta and Samindranath Mazumdar.

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Fireworks Fair Opens At Maidan, PCB For New Norms


By siddharth22, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Mon Nov 05, 2007 at 01:19:49 AM EST

With the festival of lights round the corner, the fireworks dealers of the city have obtained permission from Kolkata Police to organise a Baazi (cracker) Bazaar at Maidan like every year. The weeklong fireworks fair began on Sunday evening and will continue till Kali Puja on November 9.

"Permission is granted to hold the fair just a few days before Dipawali. However, owing to the shortage of time, we have not been able to put in place the necessary infrastructure to our satisfaction," said Indrajit Buddhiraja, President of Burrabazar Fireworks Dealers Association.

The restrictions introduced by the Pollution Control Board (PCB) have re duced the sales and hit firework dealers in the city badly, he said.

"This year the decibel limit has been brought down to 90 from last year's 130 decibel. Compared to other states, this limit is lower by 30 decibel. In states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and other north-western states, where Dipawali is celebrated in full swing, the permissible limit is over 120 decibels," rued Buddhiraja.

"The decrease in the sound limit has proved costly for dealers who have suffered a tremendous setback in the state," added Indrajit.

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IIM feast for classical music lovers


By Dr arvind, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 03:31:16 AM EST

In an endeavour to promote Indian classical music, the IIM Calcutta chapter of the SPICMACAY (Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth) is organising recitals of Hindustani classical music for the IIM Calcutta community.

The campus will be set to play host to two foremost exponents of the Benares gharana vocal tradition over two days - October 24 and 25. The programme will be held at the Management Centre for Human Values (MCHV) Seminarium, at IIM Calcutta.

The first evening will have a performance by the brothers Rajan and Sajan Mishra, recepients of the Sangeet Natak Academy Award in 1998 and the coveted Sanskrit Award for musical excellence from the Prime Minister of India.

A performance of Girija Devi is scheduled for the next day. A Padma Bhushan awardee, Girija Devi represents the Benaras gharana of vocalists and is adept at various genres of Hindustani vocal music, including khayal, thumri, dadra, chaiti and kajari with her forte being Poorab and thumri. She is also described as the last living queen of thumri.

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Paris artist's brush with Indian motifs


By Dr arvind, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Mon Oct 16, 2006 at 06:27:03 AM EST

When people go to Paris, they want to see the Versailles palace. "But when they come to Kolkata, they want to see the slums!"

This troubles Olaf Van Cleef, now on his 47th visit to India. For this painter from Paris, "Delhi is the city of babus, Bombay of Bollywood stars, while Kolkata is the city of Tagore, Aurobindo, Vivekananda, Ramakrishna." Kumartuli, College Street, Ganga ghat, "these spell a classy lifestyle," says Olaf who, as advisor to Cartier on high jewellery, would mostly meet the royal India. "Now I want to do things for the forgotten India," he announces.

His intimacy with India took another turn last year with an exhibition in Chennai. Now it's growing towards his first show in this city of forgotten palaces, come January.

The paintings he's showing in Chennai, Pondicherry or Kolkata have been "specially done" for India. "With Swarovsky diamonds," adds Olaf. With spots, circles, squares, oblongs, zigzags, triangles, dots and dashes, the painted surface could well be the layout for a carpet or a royal garden. "I inherited a rich carpet from my grandfather and I'd spend hours looking at it. That may be the source of my inspiration!" And the garden? "Well, my first job was designing gardens!"

Interestingly, Olaf 's work is reminiscent of tribal art from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthani miniatures. But Olaf puts his signature by designing these so as to add up to an elephant, monkey, tiger, parrot, Jagannath or Kali.

Why does Olaf still evoke India through these stereotypical images? "Because of Kipling!" he responds. "Jungle Book was my most precious possession as a child. And by painting Sher Khan and Balu and Ka, I return to my childhood."

From: TOI, OCT-16,06

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Big plans for Natya Mela this year Nov 23 to 30


By Dr arvind, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 06:29:38 AM EST

To be held from Nov 23 to 30; leading theatre companies from in and around Kolkata, Bangladesh and Germany to take part

After a successful run for six years flat, this year the Paschim Banga Natya Academy has big plans for the Natya Mela or the Theatre Festival to be held from November 23 to 30. The Natya Mela is usually held immediately after the conclusion of the Kolkata Film Festival.

The Natya Mela, organised by the Paschim Banga Natya Academy, will see leading theatre companies from in and around Kolkata taking part in it. "We will allow small theatre companies to participate in the forum so that they can showcase their theatrical talents. There are two theatre companies from Bangladesh. We have a sister concern of the German Flying Fish Theatre Company coming from Germany. The original company participated in the festival last year," said Sukanto Ray, secretary of the Paschim Banga Natya Academy (PBNA).

The PBNA is a subsidiary of the Information and Cultural Department under the West Bengal government and looks after the welfare and development of theatre in the state. Last year, around 100 theatre companies participated in the festival. "This year, we expect the same number of theatre companies coming in or even more," said Ray.

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Best cartoonists on screen, 24x7


By Dr arvind, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 06:33:59 AM EST

India's Best cartoonists and their works will be on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair as part of a 13-part Doordarshan serial. The serial, `Eminent Cartoonists of India' will be on show, round the clock, for over 30 days.

The 13 cartoonists featured in the serial are Abu Abraham, R.K. Laxman, Mario Miranda, K. Shankar Pillai, Bapu, Gopulu, Ajit Ninan, E.P. Unny, Suresh Sawant, Sushil Kalra, Vijay Narain Seth or Vins, B.V. Ram Murthy and Prabhakar Wairkar.

Doordarshan Director General Leeladhar Mandloi said the broadcaster had paid Rs 30 lakh for the serial, which has been telecast several times on TV and had been acclaimed by UNESCO as DD's best in 2003.

The producer of the serial, Hyderabad-based cartoonist and comedy film maker S.B. Shankar Kumar, popularly called Sanku, told the Hindustan Times:

"It is a big achievement for Doordarshan because no other DD serial has ever been on display round the clock for 30 days at an international event. It is a great honour for Indian cartoonists. Besides, Indian cartoons are also on display at an exhibition called `India at a Glance'. Sanku leaves for the Frankfurt book fair as a special invitee on Wednesday.

"I wanted to do a serial on cartoonists because they are introverts and do not like to speak about themselves and their art," he said.

Source- HT, 04/10/06

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Destitutes, special kids' chance brush with art


By Dr arvind, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Tue Sep 26, 2006 at 06:06:20 AM EST

City NGO organises a two-day long art camp for 60-odd children at Victoria Memorial

Imagine an eight-year-old physically-challenged child colouring a flower with his feet and a mentally-challenged child colouring a house in warm colours of red and yellow.

Today at Victoria Memorial Hall, 60 children - some mentally and physically challenged and some from the slums and streets of Kolkata - along with some more children, all got together to participate in a two-day long art camp, called Colours for Tomorrow.

The camp aims at developing and spreading art among children and to prevent them from taking to anti-social activities. Children who come from disturbed family backgrounds have a tendency to fall into such activities. And according to a theory, children who are involved in art and painting are less likely to involve themselves in other activities. So we are trying to develop a love for colours in these young minds, said Goutam Das, the secretary of the NGO.

Around 300 students were chosen in the preliminary rounds held at the four institutes which includes Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy, Alipore Girls and Boys School, Reads, an NGO for street children and Riddhi, another city-based NGO for children.

These paintings give us a peep into the child's world. A child here, Niraj, had coloured a black sky with a smiling red sun. Its shows how distressed he is but still he has not lost hope, said Durbanada Jana, an artist who was sitting with the children at the camp.

The camp was inaugurated by Prokash Karmakar and Samaresh Majumdar, renowned writer and the president of the Eye Within, presided over the camp.

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Hrishikesh Mukherjee is dead


By Rajesh Kumar, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Sun Aug 27, 2006 at 08:06:13 AM EST

MUMBAI: Veteran film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee, who made directed several memorable movies including "Anand" that launched Amitabh Bachchan on the path to superstardom, died here at a hospital here following protracted illness.

He was 84.

Mukherjee was admitted to the Leelavati hospital in June in critical condition following chronic renal failure, pneumonia and sepsis, hospital sources said, He had been coming to the hospital regularly for dialysis. The end came at 1630 hours.

Mukherjee's funeral is likely to be held tomorrow or day after tomorrow on return of his son from the United States.

Mukherjee directed many a blockbuster Hindi movie, regaling the audience with his typical `Hrishida' touch. He won the coveted Dadasaheb Phalke award and Padmavibhushan.

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Thirty shades to head-turning effect


By Rajesh Kumar, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Fri Jun 17, 2005 at 03:19:43 AM EST

Matrix, a signature brand of L'Oreal, was launched in the city at a hair show on Thursday evening.

A two-hour hair transformation took place on half-a-dozen models to introduce the range of 30 hair colours that the brand has brought to Calcutta.

From natural blends for the conservative to reflects for the wacky and hi-tones for the wild, the colour palette in the new range shifts focus from subdued browns to bright reds.

"This is a national launch of the product and Calcutta, with its growing awareness, is a large market for hair-care products and colour," explained Melroy Dickson, education manager for the brand.

The line will be available through top hair salons in the city. "We are educating hairstylists about the product line and they should be able to use these on customers soon," he added.

While the older clientele is expected to go for highlights in softer shades, the younger lot could opt for chunky colouring with a number of vibrant hues on offer.

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Film on hangman revisits the Dhananjoy 'circus'


By Rajesh Kumar, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Wed Jun 15, 2005 at 06:49:38 AM EST

IANS

KOLKATA: A searing documentary that captures a day in the life of the hangman who executed rape and murder convict Dhananjoy Chatterjee almost a year ago has tried to "de-fictionalise" the event, says filmmaker Joshy Joseph.

Joseph's 83-minute documentary film "One Day from a Hangman's Life", which releases commercially June 18 here, is a split wide open docu-drama of a day in last July on the life of hangman Nata Mullick. Chatterjee was executed here Aug 14.

Joseph said he had adopted the same "greasing the palm" means the paparazzi and journalists had used to shoot the hangman.

He says he paid Nata Mullick in cash and kind (liquor) for shooting inside his crammed dingy room in the city. The pot-bellied hangman turned from hostile to philosophical through the day before the media putting to shame the best of film actors with his act, said Joseph.

Mullick was busy "making capital out of the capital punishment".

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