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Muses of the mountains

Bharat Rai's ongoing exhibition ‘Whistle Blower’ at Ekantakuna's Wind Horse Gallery is a quasi-surreal take on the world of tourism and mountaineering....

Ashish Dhakal

The anatomy of a flower

"I can’t help myself when I see flowers,” says botanical artist and illustrator Neera Joshi. “ I have to paint them.”Outside her studio, the...

Shristi Karki

A Single Brushstroke

Jerome Edou’s monochrome ink exhibition A Single Brushstroke marks the first physical exhibition at Siddhartha Art Gallery in nine months. Nepali Times got a glimpse as...

Shristi Karki

Nepal's history through art

Rediscovering the Victorian-era paintings of Kathmandu by early British and Nepali artists

Lisa Choegyal

An antelope and an artist

A painting of a rare Tibetan antelope by a Nepali artist gifted by Jang Bahadur Rana to the British resident in Kathmandu...

Hearing for the deaf, seeing for the blind

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...

Portraying portraiture at Taragaon

The visitor to the Taragaon Museum is surrounded by faces: from large, realistic examinations of elderly men and women to symbolic portraits...

God and Superman

Surrounded by overwhelmingly large ‘Sale’ signs is a tiny object in a large hall. Ang Tsherin Sherpa’s golden statue of a Tibetan...

Continuum

Artist Sunita Rana’s imaginary locations transfer the viewer to a dream world: ethereal light shines through trees with red, yellow and pink...

Lost in Transition

Though the medium is oil on canvas, Mann Gurung employs only sepia tones in his paintings, evoking the era of old photographs....

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