Chennai hosts the immersive Van Gogh experience with an art café and Infinity Room

Chennai hosts the immersive Van Gogh experience with an art café and Infinity Room

A view of the simulated experience | Photo Credit: special arrangement The ivory almond blossoms fall softly, almost callously, as curiosity mounts — can we leap up and maybe catch a few? The Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece that embodies the artist’s yearning for hope and awakening is just an outstretched arm away, consuming the space […]

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Chennai hosts Madras Art Weekend with over 100 artists, public art and interactive shows

Chennai hosts Madras Art Weekend with over 100 artists, public art and interactive shows

A view of the Broadlands Hotel in Triplicane | Photo Credit: special arrangement Chennai is home to multiple art institutions, and a legacy that boasts of a regional Modernist movement that is unlike any in the country. Yet, conversation surrounding visual art is often restricted to the usual suspects: galleries, artists and patrons alike. Madras […]

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Ever watched a play blindfolded? Chennai’s Evam experiments with sensory fantasy theatre

Ever watched a play blindfolded? Chennai’s Evam experiments with sensory fantasy theatre

Audience at the show | Photo Credit: special arrangement As soon as the blindfolds come on, a nebulous mass of anxiety and excitement parks itself in my head. Where do I go, what or whom do I hold on to, what if I fall on my face?…before the questions can multiply, an outstretched hand finds […]

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A play that you cannot see? Chennai’s Evam is back with fantasy theatre for a blindfolded audience

A play that you cannot see? Chennai’s Evam is back with fantasy theatre for a blindfolded audience

Audience at the tester show | Photo Credit: special arrangement Enter a room of endless possibilities filled with a blindfolded audience glued to their chairs, completely oblivious to what is going to hit them next. This is a room that fosters imagination, no, one that demands it. In this room, every other sense apart from […]

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Chennai to see a play adaption of Oscar-winning, Anthony Hopkins-starring ‘The Father’

Chennai to see a play adaption of Oscar-winning, Anthony Hopkins-starring ‘The Father’

Actor TM Karthik will play the protagonist | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT When one thinks of the Academy Award-winning film The Father, Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Coleman, and their exceptional, almost visceral, performances come to mind. Adapted for screen from a play of the same name by French playwright Florian Zeller, The Father was originally […]

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