Tamarind Art Council is proud to celebrate Asian Contemporary Art Week May 10, 2009

Tamarind Art Council is proud to be a part of Asian Contemporary Art Week. During this time Tamarind Art Council will host a number of exciting events featuring artists, dancers, and musicians. Featured performances include, Indra-nila, Rebecca Aier, Lakshmi Kurup and Troop, Bani Ray, and Tabla Triveni , in addition to Tamarind Art’s exhibition Silt of Sentiment. Performance times will vary and are listed below. To attend performances please RSVP to rsvp@tamarindart.org. For more information visit our website at www.tamarindart.org

Tamarind Arts Council’s featured Asian Contemporary Art Week events include:
12 May - Opening Reception for Silt of Sentiment. Featuring paintings by contemporary female artists, Sumana Chowdhury, Mahjabin Majumdar, and Kajal Shah.

14 May – Odissi dance performance by Bani Ray. Ray will be presenting the Vedic and Tantric aspects of Devi.
16 May - Bharathnatyam Performance by Rebecca Aier. Aier will perform classic of the genre. 4:00 – 5:00 pm.
Also on 16 May, there will be a Mohiniyattam performance by Lakshmi Kurup and Troop who will perform Ganesha Stuti, Padma, and Thillana. 6:30 – 7:30 pm.
17 May – Tabla Extravaganza by Tabla Triveni. Tabla Triveni features two of the country’s most accomplished classical tabla players of non-Indian background. 5:30 – 6:30 pm.
Also on May 17, a Bharathnatyam performance by Indra-nila. Apart from her classical dance performance she will have a brief demonstration of the Nritta – Technique and Abhinaya – expression. 7:00 – 8:00 pm.

About Tamarind Art Council
Tamarind Art Council (TAC) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting contemporary art in North America. Our focus is to support all types of artistic expression, including performing and fine arts, by sponsoring art-related activities and cross-cultural events in order to expand awareness for art and culture.
Our mission: Tamarind Art Council exemplifies how life can revolve around the arts. Our mission is to impel the work of contemporary artists and performers and to facilitate public appreciation for these unique cultural art forms. Some of our events include art exhibitions, performing arts, book launches, lectures and other cultural programs. As part of our on-going efforts, we support art museums, cultural communities and not-for-profit organizations around the globe. Tamarind Art has become a nexus for many art organizations and is a foremost resource center for gaining an understanding of all art forms, artists, and other areas of interest to individuals, businesses and art connoisseurs.
Tamarind Art Council is proud to announce sponsorship of The Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) film screening “INDIA NOW,” a bi-annual program launched in 2007, which is to be presented at the museum as “NEW INDIA” again in June 2009.
Our most successful and well-received exhibition, displayed from April 10th – May 3, 2008, entitled “Gandhi: The Legacy,” was held in collaboration with Philip Glass Opera and Satya Graha Forum. This unique photography exhibition captured a nostalgic view of Gandhi’s true legacy. There were two scholarly lectures presented during the exhibition. One from Ram Rahman, who placed contemporary Indian Photography into the context of the “lost” histories of photography in the post-Independence era, and another lecture on Mahatma Gandhi by Prof. Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, dept of philosophy, Director, Heyman Centre for the Humanities Columbia University, concluded this special exhibition.
Other sponsorships include Festival of India with WMI featuring Shivkumar Sharma and Zakir Husain, Masters of Indian Music – Rahul Sharma & Zakir Husain with WMI in November 2007, Prema Murthy’s Fuzzy Logic Exhibition at P.S. 1 MoMA from June – September 2007, and the Contemporary Photography and Video Art exhibition “India Public Places/Private Spaces” held at the Newark Museum of Art from September 2007 – January 2008. Our ongoing effort continued in 2009 with a lecture by Pablo Bartholomew in April 2009. A talk by Rebecca S. Brown, an associate professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University, and author of the recent book, Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980. April 17, 2009. We are participating in ACAW with several performances in the Asia Art Week, and many others.
For more information about Tamarind Art Council, please visit our website at www.tamarindarts.org. Tamarind Art Council is located at 142 E. 39th Street, New York, NY, 10016. Contact us by calling (212)200-8000 or emailing admin@tamarindarts.org.