Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens Shraddha Shrestha has said that it is essential to preserve Mithila art as ...

When Dulari Devi says, “Painting is my everything,” she means it — the practice of art changed her life in a very real and tangible way. Born a member of the lower caste in Bihar, India, Devi spent ...

Mithila painting has evolved as a tradition that started about 700 years ago, with women using flower pigments and bamboo to adorn walls with religious motifs and wedding décor. The themes of the ...

Art undoubtedly offers many benefits, and among them is serving as a means through which to understand a specific place or point in time. That’s precisely the case in an exhibition at the Chazen ...

Tribal and folk art in India didn’t begin in studios. It began on floors, and courtyards. These were created for festivals and moments that mattered to the community.Art + Culture ...

New Delhi [India], September 28 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared the success story of a girl from Madhubani district in Bihar during the 126th episode of his monthly radio broadcast, 'Mann ...

At the Vaidehi Utsav exhibition, on view at the Civil Services Officers Institute in New Delhi, Mithila art’s bold, meticulous lines lend shape to a figure who has long been flattened by scripture and ...

ArtRage Gallery in Syracuse’s Hawley-Green Neighborhood, opened its newest exhibition entitled “From Gods to Social Justice: Indian Folk Artists Challenging Traditions” on April 6. In keeping with ...

The exhibition 'Dasa Mahavidya' explores the work of Krishnanand Jha and Santosh Kumar Das, male artists navigating the traditionally female art form of Mithila painting. Their depictions of the ten ...

This is the paradox at the heart of Dasa Mahavidya: Gesture, Form and the Feminine Divine, an exhibition that brings together the works of Krishnanand Jha (1947-2018) and Santosh Kumar Das. For ...