Museum of Nepali Art (MoNA), a private museum, opened to the public in February 2020. MoNA has traditional and contemporary art on display. Photos: DRISHNA STHAPIT Just entering into the basement ...
East meets west, traditional meets modern at a gallery in Zurich, where two Nepali artists are exhibiting their art using digital frames cycling multiple works in a single slideshow. Kailash K ...
Paubha remains a common painting method in Nepal but the austere religious observances once followed by its artists have fallen out of practice – Copyright AFP ...
"Necklace Inscribed with the Name of King Pratapamalladeva" (ca. 1650), gilt copper with semiprecious stones (image via Art Institute of Chicago) According to the inscription, King Pratap Malla ...
The Vietnamese monks said they wanted a river. So Lok Chitrakar, one of Nepal’s most prominent painters, wrote “need river” amid the folds of a landscape on a preparatory sketch for the gateways of a ...
Sneha Shrestha, the Arts Program Manager at Harvard’s Lakshmi Mittal and Family Institute of South Asian Studies, is a Nepali visual artist known for her work with graffiti, Nepali scripture, and ...
The two artifacts will be returned to the Department of Archaeology in Nepal, which will in turn determine their final location. Nepal’s acting consul general, Bishnu Prasad Gautam [L], with Rubin ...
"Bronze art of Nepal bears its distinctive stamp on the cultural history of the country. Meager and sporadic research on the subject carried out so far deals only with the description of the features ...
The intricate Mithila art is made up of hundreds, maybe thousands, of fine lines and details, depicting human figures with proportionately large eyes and noses, telling the stories of the rituals, ...
The Art Institute of Chicago announced Monday that it is returning a 12th-century sculpture to Nepal. The museum said it learned that the sculpture, "Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda," ...