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ART AND CULTURE - January 2020

Jan 2020

Feb 09, 2022

Global Summit on Reimagining Museums in India

The Ministry of Culture is to organize a Global Summit on reimagining museums in India. The summit is first of its kind. The summit is to be inaugurated by the Union Minister of Culture Shri Kishan Reddy.
The summit is to focus on developing museums in India. The main intention is to cultivate new practices and strategies to develop the Indian museums.
The summit is organized as a part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. It is a programme to mark the 75th anniversary of Indian independence.
The summit will bring together the experts and practitioners in the field of museum management from all over the world.
The summit is organized by the ministry along with Bloomberg. The summit is to be held online on February 15 and February 16, 2022.

India's 'Writing With Fire' makes it to Oscars

Indian documentary feature "Writing With Fire" made it to the final nominations list at the 94th edition of the Academy Awards.
Directed by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, both debuants, "Writing With Fire" chronicles the rise of Khabar Lahariya, India's only newspaper run by Dalit women.
Jane Campion's gothic western "The Power of the Dog" landed a leading 12 nominations, including nods for best picture, best director and all of its top actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee. The nominees for best picture are: "Belfast", "The Power of the Dog", "Dune", "Drive My Car", "West Side Story", "Don't Look Up", "Licorice Pizza", "CODA"; "King Richard" and "Nightmare Alley."

Feb 07, 2022

Iconic Tapestry of Picasso's 'Guernica' is Back at the United Nations

The iconic tapestry of Pablo Picasso's "Guernica," which is considered by numerous art critics as perhaps the most powerful anti-war painting in history, returned to its place of honor at the United Nations after a year-long absence that angered and dismayed many U.N. diplomats and staff.
The tapestry was commissioned in 1955 by former U.S. vice president and New York governor Nelson Rockefeller and offered to the U.N. on loan in 1984.

Feb 03, 2022

One of the Oldest Buddhist Temples ever Discovered

An ancient temple dating from the early centuries of Buddhism was unearthed in the Swat Valley in northern Pakistan — part of the ancient Gandhara region that was conquered by Alexander the Great and gave rise to a mixing of Buddhist belief and Greek art.
Archaeologists think that the temple dates from about the middle of the second century B.C., at a time when Gandhara was ruled by the Indo-Greek kingdom of northern India, and that it was built above an earlier Buddhist temple that may have dated from as early as the third century B.C.

Feb 01, 2022

Hoysala Temples are India's Nomination for World Heritage Tag

The sacred ensembles of the Hoysala, the famed Hoysala temples of Belur, Halebid and Somananthpura in Karnataka, were finalised as India's nomination for consideration as World Heritage for 2022-23. These protected monuments are on UNESCO's tentative list since April 15, 2014.
The Hoysala architects used their profound knowledge of temple architecture in different parts of India, and these temples have a basic Dravidian morphology but show strong influences of the Bhumija mode widely used in Central India, the Nagara traditions of Northern and Western India, and the Karntata Dravida modes favoured by the Kalyani Chalukyas.
After the submission, UNESCO will communicate back by early March and after that the site evaluation will happen in September/ October 2022. The dossier will be taken up for consideration in July/August 2023.

Jan 31, 2022

Telugu Short Film 'Street Student' Wins First Prize at NHRC's Short Film Award Competition

A Telugu short film 'Street Student' depicting the story of a street urchin with a strong message on right to education bagged the first prize in a competition organised by the National Human Rights Comments (NHRC). The NHRC had received a "record 190 entries" from people from various parts of the country.
'Street Student' by Akula Sandeep was selected for the first prize worth Rs. 2 lakh in the seventh Short Film Award Competition. It is in Telugu with subtitles in English.
The film shows the story of a street urchin to send across a strong message on right to education and how the society needs to support it.

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