http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/home.aspx A simple RSS document generated using XMLTextWriter Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/3999-bringing-pujo-to-life.html Bringing Pujo to Life Sat, 05 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/3999-bringing-pujo-to-life.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/3522-art-basel.html Art Basel is known for big sales - and the world?s biggest fair for modern and contemporary art stayed true to its image in this year?s (44th ) edition. Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/3522-art-basel.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/3105-radhakrishnan-a-retrospective.html K.S Radhakrishnan has established a reputation as one of India?s foremost sculptors, with his concepts firmly-rooted in high Indian tradition, while expressing an entirely new contemporary vision. Gurgaon?s Art Pilgrim Gallery in Sushantlok is currently hosting a Retrospective, until mid-April, of Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/3105-radhakrishnan-a-retrospective.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/3072-arias-in-the-aravallis.html This week, the Aravalli Hills on the Haryana-Rajasthan border literally ?came alive with the sound of music?, with a gripping performance of an exclusive Opera-Pastiche, ?Alexander The Great In India? ? performed in the unusually spectacular setting of Neemrana Fort-Palace?s open-air amphitheatre. Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/3072-arias-in-the-aravallis.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/3035-small-is-artful.html Small Is Artful Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/3035-small-is-artful.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/3006-negotiating-sculptural-spaces.html The importance of Sculptural Art in the Indian gallery-circuit is often overlooked, in an overwhelming emphasis on painterly works. India bears an extremely complex and rich sculptural tradition. Our historic temple and cave-sculptures at Konarak, Ajanta, Ellora, Elephanta and Khajurajo, as well as Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/3006-negotiating-sculptural-spaces.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2978-vestures-of-being.html Maturity of concept and expression in Fine Art is not an easily-achievable construct. Quite the opposite - it is an infinitely difficult Sadhana, one that involves a lifetime of introspection, and a deliberate shedding-away of outworn beliefs. To demonstrate this, the current art season is blessed Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2978-vestures-of-being.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2950-creative-destruction.html The 'creation' of 20th-C. Modernism, in the 'Gallery' sense, involved the painterly 'destruction' of outdated visual modes of Realism and Classicism ? a feat accomplished in the early decades of the past century by such schools as Cubism, Surrealism, Action painting, Kinetic Art a Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2950-creative-destruction.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2892-a-hundred-years-of-amrita-shergil.html This season marks a major milestone on the Fine Art calendar - the 100th birth anniversary of India's inimitably-flamboyant visionary painter, Amrita Shergil, a legendary art-icon and pioneer of modern art, unique in her genius and her ancestry. This eminent artist, born to a Punjabi Sikh ari Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2892-a-hundred-years-of-amrita-shergil.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2878-crafting-an-international-mela.html Outside the ambitious and aggressive urban art-and-crafts arena, the relative rusticity of the annual Surajkund International Crafts Mela makes it a necessary alternative to the city?s gallery and craft-boutique circuits. The idea of the Mela is to provide rural craftspersons an opportunity to sell Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2878-crafting-an-international-mela.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2874-gargantuan-gallery-gala.html Gargantuan Gallery~Gala Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2874-gargantuan-gallery-gala.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2848-art-for-aspirants.html Art For Aspirants Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2848-art-for-aspirants.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2817-hymn-to-the-homeland.html The sublime and moving earth-installations and sculptures of Baroda-based sculptor Trupti Patel - Homeland ? on display at Gallery Alternatives until mid-February, mark a moving aesthetic beginning to a new year in need of meditativeness and a deep re-connection to a humanistic value system. Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2817-hymn-to-the-homeland.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2791-volcanic-visions.html The intensely- revealing early works of promising younger artists most often get lost in the Art-world's mad rush for fame, visibility and image-building. At the Retrospectives of some of the world's great painters and visionaries I am usually struck by their introspective, intricately cross- Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2791-volcanic-visions.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2756-sublime-sunscapes-and-160-mystic-muses.html New Delhi's NGMA (National Gallery of Modern Art) at Jaipur House is currently showcasing a major retrospective of powerful, sublime, sun-drenched landscapes and other paintings by the great Bengal School pioneer artist Gopal Ghose (1913-1980). This body of 220 evolved artworks, marking the bril Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2756-sublime-sunscapes-and-160-mystic-muses.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2725-magnificent-masterweave-art.html In a new year marked by mourning, due to disastrously violent events against women and children that eerily echoed the Mayan Calendar?s ?End of Days?, we are now in desperate need of inspiration and positivism. One way of renewing our values is by celebrating and supporting the inspiring positive e Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2725-magnificent-masterweave-art.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2693-an-operatic-art-oeuvre.html AN OPERATIC ART~OEUVRE Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2693-an-operatic-art-oeuvre.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2657-lost-in-concrete-wastelands.html The erosion of spiritual and aesthetic values is the inevitable fallout of living in the contemporary wasteland of a concrete jungle. A human soul that is disconnected with Nature, and torn asunder from one?s authentic cultural roots, is a deeply-ailing, suffering entity, thirsting and struggling t Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2657-lost-in-concrete-wastelands.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2653-clay-contemplations.html After ten years working with the fashion fraternity in New Zealand, Parul Srivastava and her husband Rohan shifted to Gurgaon with their four-year-old daughter, Mia, in 2010. Rohan soon got busy in his new job with PlayUp, as their Global Marketing Head, and Parul was left to manage the house and b Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2653-clay-contemplations.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2613-pottery-paradise.html The Poetry of Pottery is evidenced by these timeless lines, that remain etched in humanity?s immortal memory-bank. The reason why pottery evokes the High Muse is because it is one of the world?s earliest (prehistoric) art-forms. Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2613-pottery-paradise.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2506-emerging-energies.html Gallery Alternatives' Group Exhibition, of over a dozen emerging Indian artists - as well as some established names such as Laxma Goud and Anupam Sud - once again presents Gurgaon audiences with an engrossing range of India's aesthetic talent. As a growing hub of all manner of activities, Gur Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2506-emerging-energies.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2470-incandescent-160-indian-icons.html The auspicious Diwali Season opens with a vibrant group Exhibition by twenty-two noted Indian artists having a "special sensibility". They have been carefully selected for this major group show entitled 'Indian Icons,' at the elegant Art Pilgrim Gallery at Sushant Lok, on display till 6 Decem Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2470-incandescent-160-indian-icons.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2451-seasons-abloom.html There is something refreshing in the childlike ebullience of Gurgaon-based painter Krishnendu Sen's playful acrylic paintings. They unabashedly rejoice in seasonal blooms, bright Indian landscapes, moonlit vistas and Durga-devis depicted in a disarmingly naive palette. A native of Delhi for thre Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2451-seasons-abloom.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2420-sci-fi-160-surreal-spiritual.html Alan Dougans, a Scotsman by birth, who later made Australia his home, lives in Gurgaon since 2009. He is head of Project Management at Cairn India Ltd., supervising the Company?s oil-fields in Rajasthan. Although he has worked and travelled in a plethora of countries over three decades, it is only Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2420-sci-fi-160-surreal-spiritual.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2388-art-oct-26-nov-1-2012.html Art Oct 26-Nov 1, 2012 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2388-art-oct-26-nov-1-2012.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2348-shakti-160-stylistics.html In this auspicious Season of Shakti - with ?Maha-Shashthi? heralding Durga Devi into our environment this weekend - it is appropriate to review a collection called ?Artists From Bengal? ? on display for the Durga Puja week until Oct. 22, at the HDFC Bank and Vatika Atrium on Golf Course Road. This Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2348-shakti-160-stylistics.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2323-doppelganger-digital.html New York, once known as 'Fun City', soon became 'Gun City' - just as Hollywood fast morphed into 'Follywood'. And yet, we repeatedly see the echoes and reflections of such decadent and degenerate cultural practices within our own country's urban milieu. Of late, we find the Bo Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2323-doppelganger-digital.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2275-virtual-visions.html '@RT VIRTUALLY REAL?, the first annual Show at ?Art Alive Gallery?, of a new art portal for emerging artists?Emergingartists.in?assembles an unusual array of experimental art practices by 22 young Indian artists from varying regions. This synergetic collection includes works by Abir Patwardhan, Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2275-virtual-visions.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2242-art-mela.html The recent 3-day Art Mart held at Epicentre - the fourth of an annual series ? put together a very erratic collection of Indian Art, along with an overly-diversified range of crafts-oriented pieces. This 'eclectic' forum was, seemingly, our answer to Delhi's International Art Fair. However Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2242-art-mela.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2204-united-colours-of-art.html An innovative, experimental global Art Exhibition at Epicentre marks the onset of a new art-perspective. In a fresh initiative which could impact future art-activity for years to come, Southfields Gallery of London has organised an International Mixed-Media Group Show of successful and significant Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2204-united-colours-of-art.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2157-art-s-fine-ideals.html Ever since its prehistoric inception as sketches on cave-walls that strove to immortalise the drama of human existence, Art, with its magic mix of form and colour, its emotive and expressive intent, beauty and visual harmony, has been like an oasis in a desert for humans striving to make sense of t Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2157-art-s-fine-ideals.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2088-vibrant-visions.html This Monsoon season, Gurgaon?s ?Gallery Alternatives? brings to us yet another Group Exhibition. This eclectic collection features artworks in a variety of media ? from canvasses and paper to sculptures. The artists are of every age-group, and from all parts of India ? from the 91-year old Tantric Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2088-vibrant-visions.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2039-shaping-dreams.html Continuing with our series on creative people in Gurgaon, FG has a tete-a-tete with the well-known and highly talented sculptor, P.R Daroz, at his beautifully appointed home in Sector 56. Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2039-shaping-dreams.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2029-troubling-tracts.html In the realm of Contemporary Art, the Naive should not be a synonym for either ignorance or immaturity. Neither should a Purist approach adhering to painterly principles, be misprepresented as an ?immature idiom that lacks cutting-edge?. Pure painterly skill remains the highest point in artistic ac Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/2029-troubling-tracts.html Fridaygurgaon http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/1998-monsoon-maestros.html Monsoon Maestros Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fridaygurgaon.com/news/1998-monsoon-maestros.html