something different · kumara krupa road · ₹ · bangalore
Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath
Eighteen galleries, an art college, and a Roerich room. The institution the city's painters and sculptors actually came up through.
why we keep going,
Thirteen galleries hold the permanent collection. The Roerich room, with Nicholas and Svetoslav's Himalaya paintings, is the one you'll remember.
The remaining galleries rotate. Open shows by working artists, with prices on the wall. Buy something if it grabs you.
Time it with Chitra Santhe in January if you can: the lane outside fills with affordable art and the queue's part of the day.
local context
Established in 1960 by M. Arya Murthy and M.S. Nanjunda Rao; runs an in-house College of Fine Arts and hosts the annual Chitra Santhe street art fair every January.
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