an art of RANGOLI!!!!!!!!!!

Rangoli is the dry color art/ paintings that inadian people do in front of their houses every new year, which represent beilef to let the color of joy and happiness come in to life forever.

Graffiti Art on Private Property......... BIG SHAME!!!!

Art made by cancer kids...........

Little gifts of memories they leave for us..........

My family.........

When I say my Family, its not just my parents and my brother. In our culture we live in a huge family with atleast 16-20 people. My couzins live with us, our workers live in a same house, there is always guest coming over and staying. But those were the days, no worries and just fun. Life was amazing. Family seems more imp when you it is not around. You feel lost, alone, sacred in the new world with starnge people. Family is imp.

My experience in different world

I am a small town girl....... i bet that you heard that a lot, but this is different. I am girl from small village in india. My first day in U.S.: wonders, mysteries, life, freedom, fear........ and many more things that i was feeling. I got goose bumps when our plane first landed in NY. When I came here i had an indian accent, so i was scared to talk to people, but then the most amazing thing i nocied is that nobody here makes fun of you like India. I was so welcomed by everybody, everywhere. This leaves me a question: What is mine and whats not? Is that these people who are complete strangerand stilll helps me at every point, or those people who were my own and still unknown. I was alive in India, but I am living here.

Interview with a curator

I interviewed Nihal kaur, one of my dad's friend who is a curator at Mythological museum in India. He spend 25 years working there. He was an art major when he started working in the museum. He knows lots of stories related to the sculptures in museum. He was personally interested in it beacuse when he was in art school he visited there in field trip. The best part of his job is that he loves telling people all that stories related to those paintings and sculptures. He always use to tell me the story about "The Rath" which means a cart tied to flying swan. Our god use to travel on that Rath when goes comes from heaven to earth. He loves to tell all that mythological stories to children visiting there. According to him, its the smile and wonder on the childrens faces that makes him love his job.

Artist in society

Many of Artists are out on the street in these hard economic times and I am curious if you think the Arts are even necessary today. Are our times too dire for the Artist mentality and only hard work and labor matters? We should ask to try to help these artists position their Arts background against what can be an unforgiving "business first" mentality on the street. Few people realize the life of the Artist is unforgiving and hard: Most work 18 hours a day 7 days a week with zero vacations and no days off.
Many are hooked into their destiny of trying to bring context to the world -- and so they earn the endless days and barter the early graves. Art creates the standards for perception and cognition for a society. Without great Art, there are no great ideas and a lesser community. The entertainment business usually does well in times of economic crises as people flee their everyday covenants in search of release and fantasy. I wish there were more inherent value placed on the non-commodity Artist by the business community. If you don't have immediate perceived value -- you are not considered, or accepted -- as a necessary part of the economic sanctity of the populace.