Sri Lanka plans to replace the existing Public Performances Board with a new ‘Public Performances Classification Board’, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said, calling for a culture of free expression in film and the arts devoid of censorship…
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he High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay, together with the Secretary of the Ministry of Buddhasasana, Religious, and Cultural Affairs, Somaratne Vidanapathirana,  inaugurated Chitralekha - the first-ever art exhibition of…
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Housed within the lobby of a popular shopping centre in Colombo, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is the sole museum in the country focused on displaying and creating public engagement for Sri Lankan contemporary art
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1940 - Lascaux cave paintings are discovered in France
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A fascinating and thought provoking series of watercolour paintings, line drawings with ballpoint pen and caricatures by artists Ranjan Ekanayake goes on display at the J.A.D. Perera Gallery, University of Visual and Performing Arts 46,…
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1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee
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An exhibition of paintings celebrating Ganesha in art by Mahen Chanmugam, a single subject artist who has devoted the last 30 years to portraying Ganesha, one of the best-known and most worshipped Hindu deities, will be held at the Barefoot…
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The Aragalaya may have lasted only about 124 days but it accomplished something previously unthinkable in Sri Lankan politics: the removal of a sitting prime minister and president – the strongmen Rajapaksas no less – through popular…
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The creative people who died this year include many whose lives helped shape our own — through the art they made, and through the words they said. Here is a tribute to just some of them, in their own voices
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The profusion of protest art in the form of paintings, drawings, cartoons and memes are fearless and unrelenting, flooding social media and reflected physically at the art gallery at GotaGoGama
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