Artist Kabi Raj Lama in his studio.Kabi Raj Lama was a student in Tokyo when Japan was hit by the Great Sendai Earthquake that set off a deadly…
Nepali archer training for the Tokyo Olympics. Photo: NEPAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEEAs Nepal plunges headfirst into 2021, it is worth reflecting back…
Rob Powell in his Koh Samui studio.Last Wednesday, 16 December 2020, marked the passing of a visionary artist who shared his unique perceptions…
Photos: JEROME EDOUJerome Edou’s monochrome ink exhibition A Single Brushstroke marks the first physical exhibition at Siddhartha Art Gallery in…
Narayanhiti Palace Museum reopens after eight month long closure during the Covid-19 crisis. Photos: BIKRAM RAISince March, Nepal’s museum…
Ranju Yadav’s modern take on traditional art injects progressive messaging into Mithila art adorning households in the Nepal Tarai as she…
Bronze sculptures by an Italian artist inspired by Kathmandu Valley’s lost-wax process and exhibited earlier this year at the Patan Museum, is…
Puneeta Sharma working on the restoration of the 160-year-old water colour on paper painting by Rajman Singh Chitrakar of a Tibetan antelope at…
Photo : MONIKA DEUPALAGerman architect and curator Wolfgang Korn first came to Nepal in 1974 to work on the Bhaktapur Project. But it was not…
Erna Anema is a Dutch artist who has painted landscapes, worked with copper, and created digitally. A professor of art at Rietveld Academy in…
This week Siddhartha Art Gallery brings to us the rare opportunity to view the works of two celebrated Tibetan thangka artists, Tenzing Dhargay…
Sarah Yonzan Giri never intended to become a sign-language expert. The wife of Nepal’s famous Panchayat-era prime minister, she was living in…
The visitor to the Taragaon Museum is surrounded by faces: from large, realistic examinations of elderly men and women to symbolic portraits in…
Photo : GOPAL GADTAULAManoj Rai was a 17-year-old student in a school in Tashigang, Bhutan in 1990, when soldiers arrived at his dorm and took…
Lavkant ChaudharyAs they enter Lavkant Chaudhary’s Masinya Dastoor exhibition at the Siddhartha Art Gallery, the visitors are strongly drawn to…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI1CkRG7MxU“Had I not become a woodcarver, I don’t know what I would be doing today,” says Indra Prasad…
Heinrich Meyer came to Nepal in 1975 to work on the German government-supported Bhaktapur Development Project to restore the old town and its…
Singapore-born Nepali American designer Prabal Gurung has brought out a pictorial autobiography of his life and career in a hefty coffee table…
An exhibition of contemporary art on Padmasambhava does not just revive the legend of the Buddhist guru, but also displays the wide variety of…
Franz Frei at his exhibition in Taragaon Museum. Photo: KUNDA DIXITFor decades, Franz Frei’s drawings used for adult literacy classes in Dolakha…
President Bidya Devi Bhandari concluded her four-day state visit to Burma on 19 October by inaugurating an exhibition on Lumbini, a UNESCO World…
Photo: TARAGAON MESUEMSurrounded by overwhelmingly large ‘Sale’ signs is a tiny object in a large hall. Ang Tsherin Sherpa’s golden statue of a…
