Art

Puri: On the occasion of the Odia New Year and Hanuman Jayanti, artist Manas Kumar Sahoo created a sand art near the Light House on the beach here. The great...

Creating a record of sorts, the international auction house Christie’s sold well-known painter, Jean Michel Basquiat’s ‘Warrior’ at  US$ 41.8 million this week. It is considered to be the most...

Bhubaneswar: An internationally acclaimed painting of renowned Odisha painter Dr Prafulla Mohanti has found place in prestigious British Museum. Mohanti's painting 'Kalika' based on Tantrism was displayed during an exhibition...

“Why do these men dance in the costume of women?”  Twenty-eight years ago, a school-going girl of Baripada had asked her father who had taken her out to watch the...

Bhubaneswar: Lord Shiva is limitless and so is an artist's imagination. Several artists paid obeisance to 'Bholenath' through their works in different forms. Odisha Bytes brings to you some of...

As a teenager, Narottam Das bagged Odisha State Award for the best design in terracotta in 1996. By the time he was 30, the Odisha-born artist had won a National...

Cuttack-based Mamata Samantaray has been an employee of Odisha Police for over 25 years. That’s her profession. However, her passion is fine art and the skill she possesses has put...

Rourkela: In the movie ‘3 Idiots’, Farhan Qureshi (played by R Madhavan) was passionate about wildlife photography, but forced to pursue an engineering course. So is the real life case...

Bhubaneswar: The annual Dhauli-Kalinga Mahotsav will be held from February at Shanti Vihar, the foothills of Dhauli in Bhubaneswar. The 17th edition of the three-day event will be telecast live...

Sundargarh: Collector Nikhil Pavan Kalyan inaugurated a district culture office and library on the premises of the newly-built Sanskruti Bhavan here on Saturday. A ‘Sahabhagita’ programme to promote the tribal...