Palimpsests of history: New ways of seeing, learning, giving
Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust’s restoration endeavours and innovative education outreach programmes are revitalising Nepal’s heritage, one monument at a time.
Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust’s restoration endeavours and innovative education outreach programmes are revitalising Nepal’s heritage, one monument at a time.
Consisting of stunning arrays of large canvases and sculptures across mediums, Pramila Giri’s third exhibition at the NAC is an encounter that is close to sacred.
PhotoKTM 5 asks us to engage—to stop, think, change our way of life, and reboot entirely, in the face of a looming climate catastrophe.
Growing up I didn’t really care about art.
Lillian Ball’s thoughtful, thought-provoking exhibition currently on show till the end of March is born out of Ball’s experiences here in Nepal
There is more to just the intricate wood and stone carving that adorn our temples, there is another crucial aspect that makes up the very fabric of these temples: The very special bricks
It is almost three years now that the devastating earthquakes hit Nepal, ravaging and terrifying the people and the landscape. Rebuilding has been slow, the government lagging,
The film is a unique effort that truthfully portrays a part of an oft-storied Nepal that no-one, not even Nepalis, really get to see
The stories of the greatest artists are often those of adversity and speaking to Gopal Shrestha, the “Kalapremi”, or Art Lover, an epithet the artist uses himself to signify his life’s passion, is a rare experience for an art historian.
In Nepal’s third year at the prestigious and now very healthily populated India Art Fair (happening in Delhi from February 9-12, 2018), the Nepal Art Council (NAC) will be taking the works of seven very different artists who will be displayed at the Nepal Booth in the “Platform” section.
A few weeks ago, at the Taragaon Museum—a venue that is rendered magical by its architecture—Götz Hagmüller released A Picture Book of My Life, a two-volume book telling his extraordinary story in pictures.
The Kathmandu Triennale 2017 (KT 2017), held in March this year, which used our city as its canvas, evolved from its two previous iterations as the Kathmandu International Art Festival (KIAF 2009, 2012).
Even those who have been to the Swayambhu Mahachaitya Complex repeatedly will most likely have missed the nondescript, white plaster and stucco Shantipur temple north of the stupa.
The True Stories project began with a woman in California reaching out to a few individuals in Nepal hoping to start a process of healing.
When I first approached Sukra Sagar Shrestha for an interview regarding the Char Narayan Temple earlier this year, he initially declined the request, thinking I was a journalist. He did not want any such attention.