Madhuri Katti | madkat70@gmail.com | 58 posts
I am a writer and a voracious reader, film and music buff too...
Abdel Halim Hafez’s songs were mostly about loneliness, pain, love, longing and nationalism. People instantly related to the powerful lyrical soulful music.
May 27, 2009
Tracey Emin celebrates love, sexuality and womanhood through her work. She depicts herself and all experiences with naked candidness.
May 24, 2009
Andrew Krasnow uses human skin from bodies donated by people to medical science for creating sculptures and art work. His art itself is his political statement against cruelty and suffering inflicted by human beings on other human beings.
May 22, 2009
Michelangelo’s first painting will be on public display at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from June 15th onwards.
May 20, 2009
Welcome to Sarajevo is a rare war feature film shot in Sarajevo and Croatia just a few months after the gruesome Bosnia and Herzegovina war.
May 14, 2009
For the first time in its entire history Cannes Film Festival opened with a 3D animation film.Thus animation moved into 3D as well as artistic dimension.
May 11, 2009
Both the song and the movie look closely at the heartache. Billie Holiday’s song addresses heartache as an entity living inside one’s own self. The movie takes a perspective of a camera to reveal subtle human emotions and follies that lead to heartache.
May 8, 2009
Often branded as one of the earliest feminist plays, A Doll’s House, is more about hypocrisy and trappings of a marriage, family and death of individuality
May 5, 2009
The exhibition Van Gogh and the Colours of the Night is a rare attempt to look at Van Gogh's vision and fascination about nights.
May 3, 2009
Pete Seeger, folk singer turns 90 today. His songs connect to dark realities of life and has inspired generations to fight for their rights and justice.
May 1, 2009
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan and has been brought up Britain. He carries both his identities very well. He keeps swinging into the past and to his roots in his novels and stories. He has a good reason for doing so. He prefers to represent the culturally displaced, migrated generation and project them [...]
The Fiendish
May 30, 2009
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