- by Sangita Shrestha
Artist Anisha Maharjan's second solo painting exhibition 'Think Pink', featuring 14 paintings since 2017, is on display at Gallery LA, Bauddha. The exhibition which began on March 9 has the theme related to the expression, experience and life of being a woman in the patriarchal society.
- by Reuters
Marcelo Toledo usually creates sculptures and jewelry out of metal. Now the Argentine artist is working with a new material: waste masks and syringes from the COVID-19 pandemic to create an exhibition exploring the painful impact of the virus.
- by Associated Press
A Banksy painting honoring Britain’s health workers in the pandemic has sold for a record 16.8 million pounds ($23.2 million), auction house Christie’s said Tuesday. Proceeds from the sale will be used to fund health organizations and charities across the U.K., it said.
- by Associated Press
Scribbled instructions for incoming patients plastered on the window of a silent hospital reception counter. A lone worker in a hazmat suit, steadily spraying disinfectant in an empty hospital hallway.
- by Republica
Kabi Raj Lama’s ‘Cycles of Impermanence’, an exhibition of etchings, lithographs and woodcuts exhibited at Siddhartha Art Gallery, Baber Mahal, concluded on Friday.
- by Reuters
The French government announced Monday that it will return a Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt landscape painting to its rightful owners more than 80 years after it was stolen from a Jewish family in Austria in 1938.
- by Associated Press
Samuel Andrés Mendoza carefully chooses from dozens of colored pencils spread out on his kitchen table, humming a reggaeton song as he deftly applies contrast to the Dragon Ball anime character taking shape on his sketch pad.
- by Republica
A group painting exhibition “Emerging Light from Darkness: A Promise of Prosperity and Joy’ began on March 13 in Souvenirs Gallery Café, Kathmandu.
- by Reuters
The Museum of Illusions in Zagreb has in reality grown into the world’s biggest chain of private museums, offering fun as well education as it explores different perspectives in the human mind.
- by Republica
With an aim to mark 70th anniversary of International Organization for Migration (IOM) along with the marking of 15th year since Nepal became Member State of IOM, IOM Nepal is organizing an art competition titled 'Nepal- Tales of Migration' with the theme of migration where there is no entry fee.
- by Associated Press
A rare painting by Dutch impressionist master Vincent van Gogh of a street scene in the Parisian neighborhood of Montmartre will be publicly displayed for the first time before its auction next month.
- by Sangita Shrestha
Transparency International Nepal (TIN) organized a one-day painting exhibition on Sunday at Nepal Art Council, Babermahal. TIN has been organizing painting exhibitions on an annual basis with an aim to inculcate in the viewers a sense of the virtues that people need to follow in order to eradicate negative effects of corruption on society through art.
- by Republica
The Department of Painting, Nepal Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) began an eight-day-long ‘Portrait Painting Workshop-2077’ on Tuesday in Naxal.
- by Associated Press
The 518-year-old Mona Lisa has seen many things in her life on a wall, but rarely this: Almost four months with no Louvre visitors.
- by Republica
The Society of Fine Arts Journalists (Sofaj) Nepal organized an award ceremony on Thursday in Lalitpur. The award is given every year to outstanding journalists from various media who have been contributing to the field of fine arts through their work.
- by Associated Press
Donald Verger has been putting heart into his art during the pandemic. And images of those intricate hearts made from vibrant sea glass are flowing back to schools and hospitals that have been hard hit by COVID-19 during the pandemic.
- by Reuters
Having rendered more than 5,500 of the insects in 30 murals and installations over the past five years, Willey says the shared experience of the coronavirus pandemic has made people more receptive to the sense of interdependence he aims to evoke.
- by Reuters
A rare Botticelli portrait sold for $92.2 million at auction at Sotheby’s in New York on Thursday, a world record for any work by the Italian artist.
- by Sangita Shrestha
Activists staged a protest demonstration in front of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) Office at Sundhara, demanding the conservation of Kamalpokhari, a historical pond in Kathmandu.
- by Associated Press
There is a ray of light for Parisians who, like the rest of the French nation this weekend, begin to observe a tightened coronavirus curfew: The famous Rodin Museum sculpture gardens is reopening to visitors.