MUMBAI, January 31: Art, heritage, photography and literature will gather together for 14 days at the Kala Ghoda art festival from today. Initiated by the Kala Ghoda Association, the festival will mark the formation of Mumbai's first art district and will include events such as talks, film screenings, workshops, and food festivals.The proposed art district will stretch from the Regal Chowk at the southern end of Mahatma Gandhi Marg to the University of Mumbai at the northern end, flanked by Oval Maidan to the west and Lion Gate to the east. Kala Ghoda is home to art galleries, restaurants, educational and cultural institutions, including Jehangir Art Gallery, Artists' Centre, Indo-Japanese Association Gallery, the open pavement Art Plaza, University of Mumbai and Max Mueller Bhavan. ``The art festival is not an end in itself. Yes, it is a pilot project, but we expect similar events to follow for the on-going relationship with the project,'' Amita Desai of MMB told Express Newsline.
TODAYONWARDS:
Max Mueller Bhavan: Art Talk: 10.00 am to 1 am for children between 8 and 14. Atul Dodiya to speak on Art-Aesthetics context.
- Cartoons by Rudolf von Leyden, 11 am to 7 pm. n Prince of Wales Museum: Architecture for a changing world - Coomaraswamy Hall, 10.30 amto 6.30 pm. n Jehangir Art gallery: An Artist of non-violence, water colours by Atul Dodiya, 10.30 am to 6.30 pm;
- 50th All India Exhibition: Photographs from the Photographic Society of India, 11 am to 7 pm.
- Acrylic on Canvas by Dr Sudhir Patwardhan.
- Marble Sculptures by Ashok Gaur.
National Gallery of Modern Art: - Shantiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism: 11 am to 6 pm.
- Film screenings on contemporary Indian artists, 2 to 5 pm.
David Sassoon Library: Bombay Clock: Photographs by Chirodeep Chaudhary.
- Exhibition of Tiles, 10.30 am to 6.30 pm
Artists' Centre: Lithographs by Jose Gonsalves.
Apollo Apparao Gallery: Mahadev
Vishwanath Dhurandar's water colours.
Open PavementGallery: Partiality to paper.
- Wall Paper by Lakeeren Art Gallery.
- Site Specific Work by Sakshi Art Gallery.
Army and Navy Book-store: Exhibition and sale of books.
Cafe Samovar: Food festivals, lunch time.
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