Kolkata: When was the last time you got the opportunity to achieve an illustration of the 18th century about a rare Roxburgh collection in the Botanic Garden? Or walk through the remnants of the awadh kingdom which was exiled in Metiabruz while exploring the eternal influence on arts and culture Bengal? Or walking around Lal Dighi after the office keeper retired for that day? All this and more of this have been included as part of the first-of-three-of-three-day art festival – titled ‘The City As Museum’ – on the occasion of World Heritage Week.
Starting November 19, this festival will help viewers undergo kolkata with refreshing new light and find new stories in familiar and foreign spaces.
Helped at eight historical sites, it will feature inheritance inheritance, historical talks with barges who explore traces of travelers of European painters, workshops, and two nights of music in Ganges.
While there was an opportunity to visit the Abanindranath Tagore Taman House in Konnagore, riding a ferry in Ganges crossing to Nihar (River Heritage House in Panihati) for the sunset concert with Srikanta Acharya also on the card.
Another attraction is the Guide and Workshop of the Indian Museum which will track the evolution of the visual language of the Miniature Mughal with the Swarup Dutta artist and Head of the Arnab Basu Museum.
Sumona Chakravarty, Deputy Director, Ghare Baire, Museum DAD, said: “Connection between art and history together we often disappear when we see it in isolation in the museum.
That is why we hug the unique experience in the whole city and beyond it to reconnect art In our past, with the history of our city life and our current life.
By imagining the city as an extension of the museum, we hope to connect deeper than our art and cultural heritage.
“Jayanta Sengupta, Secretary and Curator (Director) at Victoria Memorial Hall , describing this as a “independent collaborative event” for VMH and DAG during World Heritage Week.
“This event was designed to produce creative responses ‘in places’ from artists and players to heritage room.
We have partnered with DAG for several online events in the past or more years, but this time our partnership is intended to produce special artistic and creative responses for One of the most iconic space of the city, “he said.
According to the art historian Paula Sengupta, The Chitpur Walk will start from Garashata and continue towards the captain of the mosque.
“The viewers will be shown by Radha Krishna Mandir, known as the bat-tuning that is ‘chat’ is the center of the environment from which popular literature is an overager.
My guide will introduce viewers to Bat-Tunal culture,” Sengupta said.