Linton Kwesi Johnson / The Father of Reggae After 30 years of writing, recording, and activism in civil rights, Linton Kwesi Johnson is being honored yet again with the publication of Selected Poems in the Penguin Classics series. It makes him only the second living person to be included in the collection, and the very first …

TATE MODERN  EXHIBITION GIACOMETTI 10 MAY – 10 SEPTEMBER 2017 Celebrated as a sculptor, painter and draughtsman, Giacometti’s distinctive elongated figures are some of the most instantly recognisable works of modern art. This exhibition reasserts Giacometti’s place alongside the likes of Matisse, Picasso and Degas as one of the great painter-sculptors of the twentieth century. …

കുരിശിൽ നിന്ന് ഉയിർത്തല്ല, ഊർന്നിറങ്ങി എത്സിയെ കാണാൻ വരുന്നുണ്ട് ആ ചെക്കൻ.. കയ്യിൽ വീതുളിയില്ല.. മുഴക്കോലും കൊട്ടുവടിയും തൂക്കുകട്ടയുമുണ്ട്…. കള്ളത്താടി..!! കുണ്ടൻ പശുവിറച്ചി കഴിക്കില്ലത്രേ.. അതിനാൽ ഇളയുടെ വ്യാകുലമാതാവ് മാങ്ങാച്ചമ്മന്തി അരയ്ക്കുകയാണിപ്പോൾ. Share this…FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin

ഏപ്രില്‍ 16-ന് വൈകിട്ട് 4 മണിയ്ക്ക് ഫേബിയന്‍ ബുക്സ് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കുന്ന ഡോ.ബി.സി രാജേഷിന്റെ യുറേനിയം പൂക്കുന്ന താഴ്വര, പ്രീജ പ്രിജിലിന്റെ എത്ര പ്രിയങ്കരം, എന്നീ കവിതാസമാഹാരങ്ങള്‍ പ്രകാശിപ്പിക്കും. ചിറ്റയം ഗോപകുമാര്‍ എം.എല്‍.എ.യില്‍ നിന്ന് ഡോ.എല്‍. തോമസുകുട്ടി ഏറ്റുവാങ്ങും.

Art Beijing, opening on 29 April, brings an energetic selection of regional and international exhibitors to the fore for its 12th consecutive exhibition. Since the establishment of the Art Beijing brand, the fair has grown and developed alongside a rising and fluctuating art market. At its core is the concept of being ‘Locally Based and …

 Aaba which bagged Special  International Jury Prize  for the Best Short Film at 2017 Berline  Film Festival was selected as  the best short film in 64th National Film Awards.      The film was directed by Amar Kaushik and was shot in Arunachal Pradesh. The director expresses his optimism in the future of Indian short …

I have seen four kinds of poets in all such festivals held in India ( not outside: there poets know how to present their poems): Poets who write well and read well; poets who write well but read badly, poets who write badly, but read well and poets who write badly and read badly too.

Mohammed Kazem (b. 1969) is a conceptual artist from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. He examines aspects of the everyday that are perhaps undervalued. Making sound visible has been a key component of his practice since 1990. In one example he used the seemingly ordinary action of scratching paper/acrylic  with scissors in the work …

 Vessel with the form of a dog     San Rodrigo Aljojuca, District Chalicomula, 350-550 A.D. Height: 6 cm; width: 12,8 cm Col. Seler, 1912 ID IV Ca 35808 National Museums in Berlin, Ethnological Museum The Fine-Orange vessel has the form of a dog curled up in sleep. Short-legged, hairless dogs were at home in …

Walid Siti was born in 1954, in the city of Duhok, in Iraqi-Kurdistan. After graduating in 1976 from the Institute of Fine arts in Baghdad, Siti left Iraq to continue his arts education in Ljubljana, Slovenia before seeking political asylum in 1984 in the United Kingdom where he lives and works. Formerly trained in printmaking, …