KATHMANDU, Feb 2: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that honoring artists will enhance the dignity and image of the nation.

As we approach the end of a very unusual year we take a look at the artists you've Googled the most in 2020. After a crazy year of COVID-19 enforced lockdowns this year's most searched for things on Google were likely to have been skewed somewhat by the abnormality of the circumstances. In entertainment there were a few obvious chart toppers but also a few wild cards. Let's take a look at who you searched for in 2020.

Here's the list of top 5 artists in billboard this week

Social media has been serving as a strong platform for people to evince their talents. Discerning this fact, we tried reaching out to few young artists through their Instagram accounts to shortly delineate how they feel about art.

With a voice known to millions of Indian movie goers, Zubeen Garg crooned one of his old songs with patriotic fervor, but he is protesting against the government, not singing its praises.

More than 80 artists gathered to record the title song of ‘Prem Geet-3’ at the recording studio of Radio Nepal.

KATHMANDU, May 5: Danish Beer company Tuborg has announced the return of its music campaign Tuborg OPEN, which this year sees Grammy award winners Clean Bandit collaborate with Neetesh Jung Kunwar on a new track.

Though the gallery is congested and the wall is crowded with different sized paintings, it is definitely a platform to know women artists of Nepal and the forms and themes they work on.

Angel-like ladies clad in traditional Chinese attire making tea on stage with undeniably celestial grace left many Nepali viewers filled with awe in Kathmandu on Thursday evening. Almost 500 members of the audience on stage were soaked in a quintessential Chinese ambience for two hours (well, that passed so quickly!) when the artistes performed.

The government of neighboring country India issued postal stamp on Madhubani-Mithila art in 2000 AD. Now the present government has implemented it. It started publishing and distributing the stamps from April, 2016. This news has encouraged the artists of India and Nepal alike. Such initiation will help to understand its glorious tradition. Its original expression will be maintained in the years to come. The modern age has made possible for artists to see color afresh.

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Vice president Nanda Bahadur Pun felicitated six personalities with “Nepal Sangeet Tatha Natya Rastriya Pragya Puraskar-2074” amid a special program organized at the premises of his own office on Friday.

Nepal Art Council is holding an art exhibition featuring the works of grade 12 students of Sirjana College of Fine Arts. The exhibition, June 2 - June 5, is a culmination of the works of twenty students who worked throughout the academic year under the guidance of their teacher, Roshan Bhandari, towards this production.

KATHMANDU, May 18: Tuborg, the Danish lager brand, has announced the return of their successful music campaign Tuborg Open, which this year sees global pairing Diplo and MØ exploring musical influences and creating new collaboration tracks with artists from around the world.

Under the leadership of the chancellor of Nepal Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and veteran artist Ragini Upadhyay, nine Nepali artists have left for Bangladesh on Sunday. They will participate in the Nepal Art Week being organized in the capital of Bagladesh, Dhaka. The event commenced on Monday.

Hundreds of artworks from over 400 artists are being showcased at Nepal Art Council, Babarmahal, Kathmandu in the eighth edition of ‘National Lalitkala Exhibition’, that was kicked off on Wednesday. The annual exhibition is organized by Nepal Academy of Fine Arts.

KATHMANDU, April 11: Celebrated Nepali artists will be exhibiting their paintings in an exhibition, “Ages of Paintings Mini-Large” at Music Art Gallery, Jhamiskhel from April 14 to May 1.

KATHMANDU, March 29: Nepal Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and Toyama Nepal Cultural Exchange Association jointly organized Nepal-Japan Art Exhibition 2018 on Wednesday at Mithila Yein Art Gallery, Thamel.

DHARAN, Mar 5: On the occasion of Holi on Friday, youngsters of Dharan were busy celebrating the festival of colors whereas a group of youth artist from Pokhara and Dharan decide to head toward the historically as well as naturally significant Bijayapur.

Scientists have found the first major evidence that Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, created the world’s oldest known cave paintings – suggesting they may have had an artistic sense similar to our own.

KATHMANDU, Feb 24: ‘Spectrum’, a solo exhibition of photographs by American photographer Laurence Kent Jones is underway at the premises of Siddhartha Art Gallery, Babarmahal since February 6.

The Department of Folk Art at Nepal Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) organized a cultural folk art workshop and exhibition titled ‘Basanta Utsav’ in Itahari on Monday.

KATHMANDU, Dec 3: The works of as many as 53 artists have been put on display at Park Gallery, Pulchowk on the occasion of 11th Annual Park Art Fair, 2017. Art enthusiasts can observe as well as purchase several works of art at the three-day fair that kicked off on Friday.

KATHMANDU, Nov 22: Film Critics Society of Nepal (FISCON) has distributed Critics award on Wednesday. The organization has distributed the awards for the year 2014, 2015 and 2016 together.

Kathmandu: Nepal Academy of Music and Drama (NAMUDA) organized a press meet on Sunday at its premises, Bhatbhateni. The event aimed to inform about the distribution of Identity cards to various artists related to music and drama to honor their contribution. It was informed that the ID cards will be distributed soon under the proposal of 2073 BS about the distribution of identity cards to artists, approved by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation.

A group art exhibition ‘Golden Horizons’ kicked off at Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal on Wednesday. The exhibition aims at initiating exchange of culture between India and Nepal through art.

KATHMANDU, Oct 10: From little kids to renowned artists, everybody uses water color as it  is widely available and can be washed away easily. Though water color is used by all age groups, it is mostly favored by artists for they need not worry about dried paint and ruined brushes.

KATHMANDU, Sept 10: The first edition of Himalayan Art Festival kicked off on Thursday at Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal. The festival is organized by E Arts Nepal, an online art gallery.

KATHMANDU: SAARC Artists Camp 2017 has started from Friday with more than 30 artists from SAARC nations coming together to celebrate the cultural diversity in SAARC countries.

KATHMANDU: The 7th edition of ‘SAARC Artists Camp and Exhibition of Paintings 2017’ is scheduled to be held from Friday to Monday at Gokarna Forest Resort, Kathmandu.

Nepali artiste duo Mahesh Acharya and Samundra Man Singh Shrestha were honored with the 'Excellent Award' in Mumbai on Monday.

‘Crossing Borders’ an art exhibition with a focus on prints and drawings is taking place from Sunday at Siddhartha Art Gallery, Baber Mahal Revisited. The exhibition consists of 85 artworks by 20 artists who participated in a two-week long workshop conducted by international printmakers Damon Kowarsky and Hyun Ju Kim.

KATHMANDU: Many Nepalis have enlisted themselves in the international arena as a successful individual. From Manisha Koirala to Prawal Gurung, they have made Nepal very proud by establishing themselves in their respective profession.

Party Nepal is a multimedia event management company that started in 2001 when event management agencies were only established for entertainment purpose. The company manages over 50 events all across Nepal and also provides marketing services.

KATHMANDU, Jan 28:  Shouting slogans such as ‘Long Live Yama Buddha’, hundreds of kin, relatives and fans on Saturday thronged to Nepal Academy to pay their tribute to the body of famous rapper Anil Adhikari.

KATHMANDU, Dec 22: Writers, media persons and artists from various genres have been participating in a month-long residence session that started on December 2.

KATHMANDU, Dec 6: A Chinese artists' delegation today called on Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal at latter's official residence at Baluwatar and handed him the portraits of him and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Nepali movie actor Sudhanshu Joshi and actress Usha Paudel have tied the knot in Virginia in the United States of America.

KATHMANDU, Nov 6: ‘The Ten Water Jars, art from the time of earthquake’ by late Jim Danisch opened last week at Siddhartha Art Gallery, Babarmahal.

MUMBAI, Oct 22: As Bollywood remains divided on MNS call for a ban on Pakistani actors, Pooja Bhatt has also spoken out on the controversy.

NEW DELHI, Oct 9: Pakistani singer Shafqat Amanat Ali made headlines recently when he said he condemned the Uri attack, with many saying he was the first Pakistani artist to do so after the clamour over 'banning' them for not speaking up.

NEW DELHI, Oct 1: On Friday, Salman Khan entered the ongoing war of words about banning Pakistani artists from the Hindi film industry by saying that art and terrorism shouldn’t be mixed and Pakistani artists aren’t terrorists.

MUMBAI, Sept 30: Asserting that all Pakistani artists have left Mumbai following their 48-hour ultimatum, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Sunday continued to stay firm on their stand that no artist from the neighbouring nation will be allowed to work in Mumbai, adding that if anyone is still “hiding” in the city, they will be hunted down.

KATHMANDU, Aug 26: 32-year-old Kathmandu based artist Kabi Raj Lama adopted lithography printing out of desperation.

KATHMANDU, July 23: Worried by the news reports about the deteriorating health condition of Dr Govinda KC, cine artists reached the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) to draw the attention of the government to the just demands of Dr KC, whose fast-unto-death entered its 13th day on Friday.