The case of a 1000-year-old Nataraja sculpture stolen from a temple in Tamil Nadu and allegedly sold to the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra, has just got murkier. Following public ...

The whole thing is there, you see. The world of space and time, and matter and energy, the world of creation and destruction, the world of psychology…We (the West) don’t have anything remotely ...

A narrow road hemmed in by paddy fields detaches the village from the hurly-burly of the Kumbakonam-Karaikal Road. A pair of peacocks leisurely cross the road and enter paddy fields covered with the ...

The Bulletin began publication in 1914, two years before the museum opened to the public. At first it published regular information on museum affairs as well as acquisitions, but with the directorship ...

A dance guru, scholar and musicologist par excellence, late Nataraja Ramakrishna needs no introduction. How he revived Perini Shivatandavam, the 700-year-old dance form of Telangana, is stuff of ...

No Hindu image has probably meant more things to more people than bronze statues of the god Shiva as Nataraja, Lord of the Dance. Auguste Rodin waxed lyrical about “the materiality of the soul that ...

NEW DELHI: Touted as the world’s tallest Nataraja statue made of Ashtadhatu (octo-alloy) is finally adorning the Bharat Mandapam, the venue of the G20 summit in the national capital. PM Narendra Modi ...

The Manhattan district attorney’s office has returned 248 antiquities to India, most of which were connected to the “prolific art smuggler” Subhash Kapoor, who was arrested in 2011 for smuggling and ...

One of the most celebrated sculptural forms in the history of Indian art, this elegant and dynamic figure embodies some of Hinduism’s most fundamental tenets. According to Hindu thought, time is ...