{"id":1676,"date":"2021-07-21T20:56:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T15:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2021-07-21T20:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T15:26:50","slug":"union-culture-minister-shri-g-kishan-reddy-and-ministers-of-state-for-culture-shri-arjun-ram-meghwal-and-smt-meenakshi-lekhi-visit-national-gallery-of-modern-art-ngma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"Union Culture Minister Shri G Kishan Reddy and Ministers of State for Culture , Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal and Smt Meenakshi Lekhi visit National Gallery of Modern Art NGMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Union Culture Minister Shri G Kishan Reddy and Ministers of State for Culture , Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal and Smt Meenakshi Lekhi visit National Gallery of Modern Art NGMA<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"ltrSubtitle\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Posted On: 21 JUL 2021 6:16PM by PIB Delhi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Key Highlights:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>-Ministers visited Temporary Exhibition Hall and newly renovated Jaipur House , appreciated display of paintings of Nand Lal Bose<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>&#8211; \u00a0Reviewed various initiatives of NGMA including virtual museum, audio-visual app<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>&#8211; Best Modern Art Gallery of the country with a new look will be re-dedicated to the nation as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Union Culture Minister Shri G. Kishan Reddy visited the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in New Delhi today along with Ministers of State for Culture \u00a0Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal and Smt Meenakshi Lekhi.\u00a0 Secretary, Culture, Shri Raghvendra Singh; Director General of NGMA Sh. Adwaita Gadanayak; Director Ms. Temsunaro Jamir and other officials of NGMA were also present on the occasion.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The Ministers visited the Jaipur House which has been renovated to house the works of renowned Artists like Amrita Shergill, RabindraNath Tagore, Raja Ravi Varma, Nicholas Roerich, Jamini Roy, Ramkinkar Baij among others. They also visited the Temporary exhibition hall and \u00a0Exhibition House (New Wing) \u00a0and perused the paintings and artworks installed there. The ministers showed special interest in the exhibition of paintings and Haripura panels of Nand Lal Bose which have been artistically displayed at the Gallery.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image001KQE7.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1417778600237879300&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fpib.gov.in%2FPressReleasePage.aspx%3FPRID%3D1737545&amp;sessionId=1e8918268d317a8ae33ec87a70eeb1a0d4d2c536&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1417778600237879300\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Shri Kishan Reddy along with Ministers of State also reviewed various initiatives of NGMA including virtual museum, audio-visual app among others on the occasion.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Speaking to media, Shri Reddy said that the National Gallery of Modern Art is being renovated in the context of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav as per the vision of \u00a0Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The Minister explained that after the completion of the renovation and re-organisation works, the new look of the NGMA will be presented before the people as it will be re-dedicated to the nation. For this, a large number of paintings and artworks are being collected from different parts of the country to be displayed at the Gallery and this collection will remain available for the future generations of the country . Soon the best modern art gallery of the country will be ready in the capital of the country with a special collection, the Minister added. After its completion, it will be opened to the public , he disclosed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image002KATI.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>National Gallery of Modern Art \u00a0which houses \u00a0modernized and contemporary Indian art is one of the largest museums of modern art in the world.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image003XZOI.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1417778600237879300&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fpib.gov.in%2FPressReleasePage.aspx%3FPRID%3D1737545&amp;sessionId=1e8918268d317a8ae33ec87a70eeb1a0d4d2c536&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1417778600237879300\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>NGMA was established with the objective of promoting modern art in the country. It aimed to acquire and preserve works of art from 1850s onwards. The art collection of the NGMA is vast and eclectic. \u00a0Its treasures span miniature paintings to modernist interventions and au courant contemporary expressions.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image004ZZYY.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The NGMA had also acquired from various sources by way of purchases and gifts, works of various European and Far Eastern artists. There are in the collection many works by European artists who visited India in the 18th and 19th Centuries and portraits and exotic Indian scenes.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Culture Minister Shri G Kishan Reddy and Ministers of State for Culture , Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal and Smt Meenakshi Lekhi visit National Gallery of Modern Art NGMA Posted On: 21 JUL 2021 6:16PM by PIB Delhi Key Highlights: -Ministers visited Temporary Exhibition Hall and newly renovated Jaipur House , appreciated display of paintings &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}