India is growing in prominence as an art market and this is underscored by Sotheby's deciding to ignite the interest of Indian buyers in New Delhi for its future London auctions. The world's second oldest auction house, Sotheby's infact already started work towards this end and will be putting ...

The time is come for all fans of the Metallica to rejoice. The lead singer of American heavy metal band James Hetfield vows that they are going to make it to the top again through their soon-to-be-released music album Death Magnetic. It releases the coming month.
 
The Metallica band may ...

The UNESCO has presented India’s Girish Karnad with the ambassadorship of its International Theatre Institute. Karnad, who is now nearing 70, is counted amongst the veterans of Indian TV, theatre and cinema. A number of plays composed by Girish Karnad have received international awards and ...

The 11th Rajiv Gandhi Annual Award for contribution to Indian cinema was presented to actors Saif Ali Khan, Lara Dutta and Darsheel Safary during a gala function organized in Mumbai. The biggies from the political fray as well as Bollywood were present at the event.
 
Upon receiving the ...

Capital Delhi recently held a nude art show where 45 nude photos titled ‘Skin’ by experimental photographer Sanjib Sen were on display. Here the monochrome photographs in color misted the standing nudes to focus on a pair of dancing hands or a curved swathe of the buttocks; a zoomed ...

The night of Monday, August 4 saw 32 year-old Melissa Lawson of Texas, a mother of five, emerge as the winner of the Nashville Star sixth season finale on NBC. Lawson along with a Hispanic singer from the San Antonio region Gabe Garcia were the two final participants in the highly popular fan-voted ...

The mystery laden behind the less known painting from Vincent Van Gogh, painted in the year 1886, called ‘Patch of Grass’ is uncovered. According to some reports published in western media, some European scientists have discovered a hidden painting behind Vincent Van Gogh’s 1887 ...

It feels good to see that there are still people around who care! A group of such individuals, with an intention to bring human rights awareness amongst the common man, are hosting the Tri Continental Film Festival 2008 at Panaji in Goa from July 25 to July 30. It will showcase about 21 movies from ...

Tenth episode of Osian’s-Cinefan Film Festival has started at New Delhi. Smt. Sheila Dixit, Chief Minister of Delhi state inaugurated the festival. The ten days long festival will show nearly 200 films. Started on 10th July the festival will come to close on 20th of July. Films from 40 ...

The highly popular British author Salman Rushdie has done it again. He attained the feat of winning the ‘Best of the Booker’ prize for his Midnight’s Children on Thursday, July 10, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of one of the most acclaimed literary awards. It was way ...

A musical frenzy seemed to grip India when Amul Star Voice of India 1 was being broadcast on television. Apart from garnering massive viewership, the music talent show sort of propelled contesting singers like Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Harshit Saxena, Abhaas Joshi, Irfan Khan, Toshi and others to the ...

Famed Indian sculptor, Sudarshan Pattnaik won laurels for the country as he won the top honors at the International sand artist’s competition. The artist from Orissa chose global warming as his theme for the massive sand sculpture. The 25 feet tall piece of art simply portrayed a polar bear ...

Indian artist Francis Newton Souza’s painting titled ‘Birth’ has received record $2,487,931 which in Indian currency is around ten crore. The auction took place at famous Christie’s London. The previous record too was established earlier this year in the month of March when ...

Yes you heard it right! The highly popular pop band of India Euphoria led by Palash Sen will soon be performing in Pakistan and making the people there dance to its tunes. The Indian band’s musical show will be convened on two days – June 14 and June 15 at Karachi – and will be ...

A painting by Lucian Freud has been sold for a whopping sum of $12 million. The painting by the grandson of the great Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is titled ‘Girl in Attic Doorway’ and was bought by an anonymous buyer at Art Basel, the world’s largest fair of modern and ...

Delhi’s Subodh Gupta was the only non-Chinese artist whose painting featured on the list of top 10 Asian contemporary works that were sold off at Christie's Asian Contemporary Art Evening Sale recently. His painting titled 'Saat Samundar Paar’, signifying Across the Seven Seas, fetched ...

Senior playback singers of the Indian film industry, Kumar Sanu and Udit Narayan mesmerized the crowd at Trinidad this Saturday 18 May with their soulful voice. Kumar Sanu show was convened at the Skinner's Park in San Fernando on the occasion of Mother’s Day and witnessed a packed ...

Famous and highly respected Marathi playwright Vijay Tendulkar expired in a Pune hospital on Monday 19 May at the age of 80. For the past several weeks, he had been undergoing treatment for a neuromuscular disease. 

Among the most noted of Vijay Tendulkar's works are plays Ghashiram ...

85 year old Lucian Freud, the grandson of father of Psychology, the great psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud has broken the global record for living artists by fetching more than $33 million (£ 17.2 million) after the sale of his painting at Christie’s in New York. An anonymous buyer has ...

A 1976 triptych painting made by the late Irish-born figurative painter Francis Bacon was sold out for a splendid $86.28 million on Wednesday, 14 May in Sotheby’s big spring contemporary art sale. This is the highest bid that Francis Bacon’s work has evoked in an art sale and it ...

The very popular Tony Awards held in New York City each year, which recognizes achievement in live American theatre has some really unusual names up its nominations this time. Some say this is an indication as to where the Broadway is heading. The ‘In the Heights’ creative team, which ...

Multi-talented and renowned American artist Robert Rauschenberg, who is credited for continually restructuring art during the 20th century and thereby giving it a new meaning, died on Monday 12 May. He was 82 years old and passed away in his home at Captiva Island, Fla. Arne Glimcher, chairman of ...

The building of a statue of Martin Luther King Jr for a memorial in Washington has been stalled. This happened after a federal commission compared the sculpture to the art of dictatorial regimes. This statue was being planned to be stationed as the key showpiece for a Martin Luther King Jr memorial ...

The world famous house of wax, Madame Tussauds is all set to foray in India. Bobby Khan Holdings has acquired the exclusive license for opening the Madame Tussauds in India in a proper phased out manner. The Museums in India will feature the wax replicas of the most popular global personalities, ...

Following agitations and protests from the Sikh Community, the Sotheby\'s auction house has decided to withdraw the auction of a rare Sikh armor. The armor was scheduled to be auctioned on April 9. The armor dates back to the 18th century and is estimated to worth around 10 - 12,000 pounds. Some ...

An evening full of enchanting extravaganza ended with the declaration of the winners of Pantaloons Femina India Miss World 2008 on saturday (April, 5). Bright and beautiful Simran Kaur Mundi was declared Femina Miss India Universe 2008. Parvathy Omanakuttan was declared India Miss World 2008, ...

Popular senior Bollywood actor, Mithun Chakraborty has been named the lifetime trustee of the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy. The Academy is based in Mumbai and is dedicated to preserving the legacy of Dadasaheb Phalke, who is regarded as the Father of Indian Cinema. The Dadasaheb Phalke Academy is also ...