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ART AND CULTURE - January 2020

Jan 2020

Jan 09, 2020

First-Ever Selfie Museum Opens In Dubai

  •  The Selfie Kingdom (TSK), Dubai's first ever dedicated selfie museum, has opened its doors for photo/selfie enthusiasts of all ages. Located Close to the Expo 2020 site, TSK is an interactive space that aims to inspire creativity, art, design and promote digital content.
  • The hub currently features 15 pop-up rooms with vibrant and unique backdrops/props and proper lighting offering guests a photo-worthy experience. The rooms would be remodelled every few months to provide a fresh immersive photo-friendly set up. In addition, it will feature interesting exhibits/ installations from various artists, designers and innovators for visitors to enjoy.

Jan 05, 2020

Gujarat CM Unveils World's 2nd Tallest Statue Of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

  •  Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani unveils the second tallest statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in the world at Ahmedabad.
  • 50 feet tall bronze statue with the weight of 70 thousand kilograms has been unveiled at the Sardardham campus near Vaishnodevi circle in Ahmedabad.
  • It has become the second highest statue of India's first home home minister after the Statue of Unity of the legendary leader situated at Kevadiya in Narmada district of Central Gujarat.

SDMC's New Park To Have Replicas Of Monuments From Across The Country

  •  Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri laid the foundation for the South Delhi Municipal Corporation's (SDMC) 'Bharat Darshan Park' in Punjabi Bagh.
  • Similar to the 'Waste to Wonder' park installed by the SDMC earlier, this park will have replicas of prominent monuments from across India made out of waste and scrap material, the civic body said.
  • Theme of park The theme of the park would be 'Unity in Diversity.

Ritualistic Festival 'Lai Haraoba' Begins In Tripura

  •  In Tripura, Lai Haraoba, a ritualistic festival observed by Manipuri meitei communities since ancient times, began in Agartala. The five day long festival is jointly organised by Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, Government of Tripura, Puthiba Lai Haraoba Committee and Puthiba Welfare & Cultural Society, Agartala.
  • The five-day long festival was inaugurated by Speaker of state legislative Assembly, Rebati Mohan Das. The festival aims to uphold tradition and cultural values of Meitei community.
  • Lai Haraoba is celebrated through oral literature, music, dance and rituals. A cultural troupe from Manipur has also come to take part in festival. They will be performing various cultural and traditional musical skits including Manipuri martial arts, folk music and folk dances during the festival. 

Jan 04, 2020

Louvre's Record Numbers Fall

  • The hordes flocking to the Louvre in Paris fell to 9.6 million in 2019 as the museum tried to limit overcrowding.
  • After numbers rocketed by a quarter the previous year to a record 10.2 million, the most-visited museum in the world set out to actively discourage tourists in the peak summer months.
  • According to Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez, the real change was in June, July and August when it purposely cut visitor numbers by 600,000.
  • The Louvre is by far the most visited museum in the world, ahead of the National Museum of China in Beijing on 8.6 million visitors, and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which attracted 7.3 million people in 2018.

Jan 03, 2020

The Young Rembrandt Show

  • In February, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, is holding the first major exhibition ever staged in the UK devoted to the early years and work of Rembrandt van Rijn, perhaps the most adored of all the Dutch masters. The show, Young Rembrandt, promises to take visitors from the earliest-known scribbles made in the 1620s to the breakthrough works of the following decade, which permanently propelled him into popular imagination. The ambitious exhibition (which will feature more than 130 works, including 34 paintings by Rembrandt and 10 by noted contemporaries), will see the first public display of a newly-discovered painting from this formative period, Let the Children Come to Me (1627-28), created when Rembrandt was in his early twenties, with a newly-attributed self-portrait of the fresh-faced young artist staring out at us in awe.

The Young Rembrandt Show

  • In February, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, is holding the first major exhibition ever staged in the UK devoted to the early years and work of Rembrandt van Rijn, perhaps the most adored of all the Dutch masters. The show, Young Rembrandt, promises to take visitors from the earliest-known scribbles made in the 1620s to the breakthrough works of the following decade, which permanently propelled him into popular imagination. The ambitious exhibition (which will feature more than 130 works, including 34 paintings by Rembrandt and 10 by noted contemporaries), will see the first public display of a newly-discovered painting from this formative period, Let the Children Come to Me (1627-28), created when Rembrandt was in his early twenties, with a newly-attributed self-portrait of the fresh-faced young artist staring out at us in awe.

Decay of Harappan City Due to Drying of Saraswati-like River

  • Indian researchers have linked the decay of an advanced Harappan settlement to the disappearance of a river fed by Himalayan snow that once flowed in the Rann of Kutch.
  • The team from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kaharagpur, said that climate change, a mega drought, and drying up a river that resembled the mythological Himalayan river Saraswati were behind the downfall of Dholavira, the most excavated of all Harappan settlements in India, nearly 4,300 years ago.
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