From the ancient times patachitra has provided a platform to many rural bards or wandering artists to communicate and give out visual messages through painted scrolls, and recite stories from the ...

A national awardee artist from West Bengal, Noordin Chitrakar, has urged the central and state governments to provide a platform to the folk artists to showcase their talent on a global scale.

In the labyrinthine bylanes of Kolkata’s Kalighat resides Bhaskar Chitrakar, the last of the Patua painters whose family has been producing the Patachitra art unique to the area for six generations.

A lost art from the land of mangroves and tigers is the subject of an ongoing exhibition at a south Calcutta gallery. Over 50 paintings inspired by the patachitra or scroll painting of the Sunderbans ...

On the pristine whitewashed walls of a Salem, Massachusetts museum hangs an old Bengali couple’s art waiting to educate visitors about the 9/11 attacks in the United States. Early in their careers, ...

In the quiet, sunlit corners of Rampurhat in West Bengal, a man bends over a piece of cloth stretched taut across a wooden frame. With steady hands and a brush carved from bamboo, he paints—not just ...

In one corner of Forum Art Gallery, an elderly man sporting a waistcoat and a dhoti, sits on a charpai. He is busy at work. The fine outlines of a half-done figure of Krishna, with tiny loops and ...

Hardly bothering about the political heatup in West Bengal, buzzing with issues like polarisation, demographic change, infiltration, and religion, a Muslim couple in the state's Purba Medinipur ...

Patachitra is one of the most important art forms of Bengal, showcasing mythology and ecology through a myriad of rich colours. Not many know that the Sunderbans were once a hub for patachitra, before ...

The Kala Ghoda '˜Festival of India' is a wonderful opportunity to showcase art forms that are rapidly disappearing. As Mumbaikars happily buy vibrant pieces of art, few realise that their purchases ...

At the ITC Sonar, the sheer white Christmas tree, covered in snowflakes, is actually a tribute to the age-old "sholapith" craft of West Bengal. The unassuming herbaceous Shola plant grows wild in the ...

Now Bengal’s traditional folk art ‘Patachitra’ is all set to be used in Uttar Pradesh poll campaign by Akhilesh Yadav. Mrinal Mondol the intermediary handed over the artwork to Akhilesh Yadav recently ...