To commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of artist and literateur Abanindranath Tagore, the library sub-committee at The Bengal Club held a talk titled ‘Abanindranath Tagore at 150 — Rediscovering ...

Abanindranath Tagore’s paintings evoke the idea of India as a diverse cosmopolis, his great-grandson, a professor in California, said in Calcutta. Debashish Banerji, Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of ...

KOLKATA, (IANS) – A chance discovery at the famous Rabindra Bharati Museum housed in Jorasanko Thakurbari in Kolkata — the ancestral home of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore — which came into being in 1962 ...

Once upon a time, in the days before Shiladitya was born, when the last king of Raja Kanaksen’s dynasty was still ruling Ballavipur, there stood a huge temple dedicated to Suryadev, the sun god, next ...

This display of rarely seen artworks from the late 1930s and beyond, investigates the possibility of Plein Air painting in the Madras School. Paintings attributed to major Modernists in a recent show ...

At a time when insistence on chanting of ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ seems to raise questions of nationalism and freedom of speech, Bharat Mata, one of the most iconic paintings of Bengali painter ...

In the days before independence, Indians fought against British rule. They were part of the Swadeshi movement. In 1905, the British divided Bengal into East Bengal for Muslims and West Bengal for ...

Rabindranath and Abanindranath Tagore, two famous creative personalities from the Tagore household, had a great role to play in the artistic and literary scene of the country in the early 20th century ...

Abanindranath Tagore's paintings are now on virtual display at his restored bagan bari in Konnagar. The restored garden house at Konnagar is now a virtual museum One of the galleries known as the ...

Bengal of the 19th century was a time of raging nationalism, a blazing call for Swadeshi, of rekindled pride and renaissance. Painter-writer Abanindranath Tagore, the man behind the famous Bharat Mata ...

Would the term “Bengal School” mean anything to seven- to nine-year-olds? Would they feel any connection with Abanindranath Tagore, a critical figure in this art movement, born nearly 150 years before ...

A postcard exchanged between Abanindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose, bearing witness to their mutual admiration, will go under the hammer for the first time at an upcoming auction. KOLKATA: A postcard ...