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In the mind's eye
An exhibition at Siddhartha Art Gallery invites visitors to look inward and introspect
Looking at Nepal from Venice
Italian artist's exhibition of 30 years of works based on Kathmandu's evolution
Artful devotion
Bhaktapur artists pay homage to faith, myth and heritage in meticulous paubha paintings
Façades and flowers from Nepal to Italy
Illustrator’s show pays homage to the botanical diversity of heritage sites in two countries
Himalayan tipping points
Exhibition uses art to communicate climate breakdown in the Himalaya at an emotional level
Communicating existence through art
Visitors at exhibition ponder: Who am I? Why am I? What am I? Where am I going after this?
Tsherin Sherpa returns home to Takpa
Internationally renowned Nepali artist nurtures young talent to build a vibrant art community
Girl, unbothered
A young artist explores absences through stitch, fabric and photographs, with striking results
Sketching the chariot of the rain god
For 19 days in May, artist Sushila Singh followed the Rato Machhindranath chariot, its construction from the ground up.She sat, watching the…
Nepal's new generation of alternative artists
Aashma Dangol, "Sir Frog", Oil paint on canvas. All photos: BIKALPA ART CENTRE.Bikalpa Art Centre (BAC) in Pulchok is an interdisciplinary space…
The house of Kalapremi
All photos: MONIKA DEUPALAIn the centre of the room of the ground floor at Siddhartha Art Gallery, tattooed ceramic female figures stretch…
The anatomy of a flower
"I can’t help myself when I see flowers,” says botanical artist and illustrator Neera Joshi. “ I have to paint them.”Outside her studio, the…
Playing with symmetry and shadow
Sravasti Ghosh Dastidar’s photographic exhibition ‘Soul in Shades’ at Siddhartha Art Gallery was pushed back by one year because of the Covid-19…
Guru Rimpoche in a new light
An exhibition of contemporary art on Padmasambhava does not just revive the legend of the Buddhist guru, but also displays the wide variety of…
Nepali Art going places
Largest ever international exhibition of contemporary Nepali art opens at Weltmuseum Wien
Leaving an imprint
Photos: SEWA BHATTARAIPrintmaking is as old as Nepal's history itself, and printmakers have brought fame to the country by winning many…
Mithila art with a message
Photos: PRAKRITI KANDELArtist Ranju Yadav grew up in a village of Rajbiraj of Saptari, and learned Mithila art from her mother, grandmother and…
The pain of love and separation
Ragini Upadhyay calls her artwork an ‘artistic diary’, reflect her life events and yearnings. Her current exhibition Love Revisited at Le Sherpa…
Maureen Drdak’s Small Works
The banyan is often mistaken for the holy pipal. The banyan is ‘bar’ in Nepali and is often found in consort with the pipal on chautaris, where…
The craft of art
A painting by Ang TsherinThere used to be a time when Tibetan devotional art meant murals and thangkas. Not anymore. An internationally-renowned…