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(ARCHIVE) Vol. XXI No. 1, April 16-30, 2011
Dates for your Diary

Till April 18: Art Chennai-2011, an exhibition of works of A. Balasubramaniam (at DakshinaChitra).

Till April 22: Heart of Sculpture, a collection of contemporary Indian sculptural idioms. Man, animal and nature are presented in bronze, fibreglass, granite, stainless steel and cast glass. Sculptors include Dimpy Menon, P. Gnana, Shivarama Chary and Rohini Reddy (at Forum Art Gallery).

Till April 23: Heart of Sculpture exhibition (at Forum Art Gallery).

Till May 30: Something special every day for children who visit DakshinaChitra.

Mondays: Origami, metal embossing and paper collage

Tuesdays: Holiday

Wednesdays: T shirt printing, glass painting and paper jewellery

Thursdays: Paper mask making, warli art and pop-up greeting card making

Fridays: Madhubani art, miniature model houses

Weekends: Activities for the enjoyment of the entire family. A special offer for family includes a welcome drink, entrance, two hands-on-craft activities and any four family games – pot breaking, treasure hunt, ring the bottle, puzzle, tug of war, hoopla, musical chair. (For more information and to register: Contact 98414 23149, 98842 17393, 2446 2435/2491 8943)

April 29-May 15: Sculpture exhibition by Gopinath. He recently won third place in the professional category of the All India Art Contest organised by the South Zone Cultural Centre (at DakshinaChitra).

May 18-31: Exhibition of Indian masks – An in-house presentation from DakshinaChitra’s museum collection of masks (at DakshinaChitra).

June 1-19: Exhibition by G. Manohar Raja – a well known landscape artist (at DakshinaChitra).

June 22-30: Weaving and basketry from South India and Southeast Asia – an in-house presentation (at DakshinaChitra).


 

 

 

 

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This champion of city heritage turns 20...
... but faces a long battle on every front
The shame that's Presidency!
A heritage-loving boxwallah
Chennai's waterbirds are thriving
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