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Climate change: This golf ball art installation in Gurugram is melting!

Below2° is a climate-responsive artwork, recently unveiled at Karma Lakelands. Read on to know how it's designed to melt every year, to signify global warming. 

Demolition of groundbreaking Iowa art installation set to begin soon

Demolition of groundbreaking Iowa art installation set to begin soon

Adorable Dachshund gets mini stairs to climb its bed. Watch

A cute video shows an adorable Dachshund trying to climb its bed through some mini stairs.

Restoration of Michelangelo's Pieta statue in Florence reveals flaws in marble

The works of restoration confirmed that the 2,700 kg piece of marble had veins and numerous minute cracks, particularly on the base, which may have been the reason for Michelangelo's decision to stop working on the sculpture before finishing it. 

Art Basel Has Postponed Its Namesake Fair Yet Again

Traditionally held in June in Switzerland, the marquee event of the global arts circuit follows its playbook from last year, which saw an eventual cancellation.

Delhi winter: Soak in the sun at these scenic spots in the city

Wish to bask in the sun, but don’t want to worry about rubbing shoulders with a crowd due to Covid-19 situation? Here are some lush green places in Delhi-NCR that offer a chance to do just that!

The Almirah Project: A cupboard as a metaphor for pandemic-era emotions

Sharmila Nair’s online art installation has Bharatanatyam dancer Ramya Suvi emoting inside a 100-year-old wardrobe full of unused saris.

Fun for fun’s sake: Artist seeks to lift gloom with London installation

Artist Amy Broch’s playful art installation in the heart of London aims to create a “joy bomb” as an antidote to tough times.

White House Rose Garden spruced-up for Melania Trump’s speech on August 25

The flowers in the garden are largely pastels, which are favoured by the first lady, Melania Trump, including taller white roses, which were in honour of the first papal visit to the White House by Pope John Paul II in 1979.

Huge virtual wave crashes against glass box in Seoul, it’s mesmerising to watch

The video has now mesmerised many and there’s a chance that it’ll amaze you too.

Berlin’s battle scars linger 75 years after Nazi defeat

Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will mark the May 8 “Day of Liberation” by laying wreaths at the Memorial to the Victims of War and Dictatorship, home to the tomb of the unknown soldier.

Art installation on mental health awareness in Delhi

Ashoka University’s Ashoka Centre for Well-Being (ACWB) in collaboration with Red Balloon’s Young People for Change put together a week-long residential workshop to initiate conversations around mental health among the youth.

NCPA to celebrate its 50th year with multi-genre festival

The festival, starting from November 29, will celebrate the five decades of NCPA working towards preserving and promoting India’s rich and vibrant artistic heritage.

Artist transforms football stadium into a forest using 300 trees

The installation has been supported by Klagenfurt’s municipality and has been criticised by some as an extravagance.

Hong Kong’s discontent fuels creative art

Railings festooned with tear gas canisters and colourful postcards are artworks that protesters in Hong Kong have made from materials left over from recent demonstrations.

NIFT students create plastic monster to discourage use

Two angel wings — in the shape of a butterfly — now welcome visitors at the Delhi Development Authority’s (DDA) Deer Park in south Delhi’s Hauz Khas.

This art show will make you confront the ordeals of a refugee's life

An ongoing exhibition of installations in Delhi provides an immersive experience of the grief and distress that refugees go through.

Czech art show in mock gym challenges escapist attitudes

At the Hard Times gym exhibition in the Dox Gallery, visitors can exercise but as they do art installations confront them with some of the world’s most troubling issues and allow them to vent their frustrations.

Art set to make a stop at every Metro station in Mumbai

A literature fest in the Himalayas looks forward to seeing you this weekend

Your weekend plan is getting a rejig with Himalayan Echoes, which is now in its third season and promises to be a haven for like-minded readers, writers, poets and people who love the mountains.

Robbers flee with art installations from Meerut crossing

The beautification drive at Meerut crossing was completed only last week.

At Kashmir’s century old silk mill, art unites Muslims and Pandits

Over 60 Kashmiri artists – Muslims as well as migrant Pandits – have come together to promote the idea of “togetherness and dialogue” through their paintings, pictures and art installations.

Still no home for controversial US art memorial for Paris attacks

A location for the installation by US artist Jeff Koons has still not been found.

Steel ‘sprouts’ near AIIMS in South Delhi set to be dismantled

The 35-feet high stainless steel work -- eight big stainless steel sprouts -- was created in 2008 created by artist Vibhor Sogani near the Kidwai Nagar Redevelopment Project.

Artists to create installation from discarded bottles and packets of chips in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony

The works will be exhibited on May 20 at a hamlet in Aarey, after which they will move to Juhu beach from May 23 to 25.

New York subway turns into mini museum dedicated to David Bowie. See pics

David Bowie was a frequent commuter on the New York subway, even though he was famous by the time he moved to the city. Now, giant posters and artwork adorn the Broadway-Lafayette station.