Arts

Janaki Rangarajan Wows Audience at Kennedy Center

Tag: Arts, Bharatanatyam, Community, Community Events, Community News, Dance, Dance Performance, Dr. Janaki Rangarajan, Entertainment, Indian Americans, John F Kennedy Center, Washington DC, Washington Performing Arts Society, World Dance Day

May 1, 2013

By Geeta Goindi

Delivers a Spell-binding Bharatanatyam Performance on World Dance Day

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Indian Dances A Huge Draw at International Children’s Festival

Tag: Arts, Community Events, Community News, Dance, Entertainment, India, Indian Americans, Indian Community, International Children's Festival, Music, USA, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts

September 19, 2010

By Geeta Goindi

Fairfax, VA – The International Children’s Festival opened on a picture-perfect weekend at the scenic Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.  Indian dances with their graceful movements, vibrancy, richness of detail and color, were a huge attraction!

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Hopes for upturn as Indian art world meets

Tag: Annual Art Fair, Art Auction, Arts, Community Events, Culture, Delhi Art Show, India, Indian Art, Indian Culture, New Delhi
Indian Art Show
<p>New Delhi&#39;s annual art fair opened amidst hope that the market would pick from its low after the 2008 crash.</p>

February 2, 2013

New Delhi's annual art fair opened amidst hope that the market would pick from its low after the 2008 crash. Indian art auction prices are down 70 to 75 percent from their peak, when speculation driven by new prosperity in cities such as Delhi and Mumbai pushed them to "unsustainable levels."

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Tributes to Violin exponent M.S. Gopalakrishnan

Tag: Arts, Carnatic Music, Chennai, Death, Entertainment, Hindustani, India, MS Gopalakrishnan, Music, Obituary, Padma Bhushan Awardee, Tamil Nadu, Tribute, Veteran Musician, Violin Exponent, Violin Maestro, Virtuoso

January 5, 2013

Artistes from the music fraternity — both Carnatic and Hindustani — paid rich tributes to violin exponent M.S. Gopalakrishnan, who passed away here on Thursday. Terming his death an irreparable loss to the world of music, they reflected on different aspects of MSG’s music and personality.

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Dhoonya Dance Show enthralls Packed Crowd in Washington

Tag: Archives, Arts, Community, Community Events, Dance, Dhoonyam Bollywood, Entertainment, Indian Americans, Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC

June 4, 2011

By Geeta Goindi

Dhoonya Dance students performed “Masakalli” (Delhi 6) at their annual show, Saturday, June 4, 2011 in the Duke Ellington Theatre, in Georgetown.

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Trash exhibition offers fresh peek at Mount Everest

Tag: Art Exhibits, Arts, Environment, Kathmandu, Mount Everest, Nepal, Trash Exhibition, World News

November 22, 2012

Artists in Nepal have made pieces of art out of eight tons of trash collected from Mount Everest. The exhibition is currently on display in a hotel in Kathmandu and will move it Pokhara next week.

Visitors look at art made from trash collected on Mount Everest, in Kathmandu.

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India needs to upgrade its museums, says Cultural Minister Shelja

Tag: Arts, Cultural Minister, Culturals, Culture, India, Indian Culture, Museum, USA

September 1, 2012

India partners with the Art Institute of Chicago for an annual internship program in hopes of bringing the country’s museums into the 21st century.

India needs to modernize and upgrade its museums by employing state-of-the-art technology to make them more interactive and interesting for the public, union Culture Minister Kumari Selja said Thursday.

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Indian American Community - Most Successful Diaspora in the US

Tag: Archives, Arts, Community, Community News, Indian, Music, Philanthrapy, Top Stories, USA

December 13th, 2011

By Geeta Goindi - Special to Express India

WASHINGTON, December 13 - In what is surely music to the ears of Indian-Americans, a top US administration official has categorically stated that “no diaspora community is more successful and more inspiring than the Indian-American community here in the United States”.

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“It is the unknown that fascinates me the most”: Deepti Naval

Tag: Arts, Book Reading, Books, Community News, Deepti Naval, Literary, Poetry

Poetry & Prose Book Reading Draws Erudite Gathering

By Geeta Goindi - Special to India This Week

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‘Indian Summer’ Coming Up at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery

Tag: Arts, Culture, Indian History, Mughals, Smithsonium

By Geeta Goindi - Special to India This Week

WASHINGTON - Museum goers are in for a treat this year at the renowned Smithsonian Institution where Indian art and culture will be presented in all its brilliance and finery! The occasion is the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on the National Mall.

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