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Dear Art Hose community….

Art Hose has been around for around 9 months now and I am quite happy with the response we have received. We get decent traffic from our supporters and have a steady community on Facebook. Art Hose has done quite well to act as platform for artists and providing a well-rounded view of the art [...]
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Master Artist: Surendra Rao

This is a gallery of paintings created by Surendra Rao. You can find him doing his work at the Himalaya art store near the CST railway station in Mumbai.
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Art Action: Create a Masterpiece in 5 minutes

It is a little boring to write articles on the subject of art and wait for things to change. I guess just consuming art without creating it must be even worse!  The few people who have written to me and my friends realize the importance of art in life but hit a wall when asked [...]
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Mix Sense: Story of Takete and Baluba (Kiki/Buba)

A scene from Agantuk (Director: Satyajit Ray) set in the dining room. A well-traveled gentlemen is having a conversation with a young boy and his mother. The gentleman is a relative of the theirs but meeting them for the first time. The conversation moves from the exchange of pleasantries to the food on the table and then [...]
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Image Gallery: Goa International Pinhole Photography Contest 2010

507 entries from 191 artists covering 41 countries — proclaims the Goa-CAP website. It is a lot of hard-work to put a competition like this together and get such a large and vivid response. I spoke to one of the organizers of the site recently and they were still hunting for sponsors to fund the event. [...]
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‘Are’are Panpipe Music – Straight from the Solomon Islands

‘Are’are are the people from the Solomon Islands. Hugo Zemp, an enthnomusicologist documented some of their music. They make their music using bamboo stems of different lengths. *one of my friends on Facebook posted this video. I think it was Erik Franden.
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Goa International Pinhole Photography Contest 2010

The folks at Center for Alternative Photography are organizing a pinhole photograph contest. Deadline for submission is on the 5th of April. The notable photographs will be part of an exhibition (25th April – May 2nd) So if you have some time of your hand, you should trying taking a few photographs and submit them. If [...]
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Evening Ragas on the Sarod by Ali Akbar Khan

Here are some clippings of the master from Maihar playing two evening ragas – Marwa and Shree. Accompanying him on percussion (tabla) is Swapan Chaudhari. This first clip of the recital known as Alaap. The artist elaborates the rage in different ways. The tempo starts of slowly and since most of it is improvisation, this [...]
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Kala Ghoda – Final Day Images

The stage, on the final day, hosted a performance by folk performers from West Bengal. The dance enacts scenes from Indian epics – Ramayana and Mahabarata. The dance is quite acrobatic and is accompanied by a ensemble consisting of drums, a synth and a shehnaai. The highlight for many was the masterpiece conceived and produced [...]
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LaPeru stall — Day 2 Kala Ghoda

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