National Gallery of Modern Art is a street art installation in Colaba in Mumbai. This place has 1493 reviews and an average rating of 4.4 of 5. This is a very good rating.
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The National Gallery of Modern Art helps people to look at the works of modern art with greater joy, understanding and knowledge by extending their relationship with our daily life and experiencing them as vital expressions of the human spirit. The National Gallery of Modern Art is to ensure quality and to set and maintain standards of excellence. The aesthetic and educational purposes are not only defined in the aims and objectives of the National Gallery of Modern Art, but efforts are also being made so that they become implicit in its organization and pervade all its activities.
I love visiting this place whenever I get a chance to go to colaba, the gallery of modern art keeps changing their displays once in 2 months, I absolutely love the ambiance of the place, very polite and helpful staff , + art makes everyone happy.
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai was opened to the public in 1996. It hosts various exhibitions and art collections of famous artists, sculptors and different civilizations. It is situated in the Cowasji Jehangir Hall, near Regal Cinema in Colaba.
The idea of a National art gallery was first mooted in 1949,[by whom?] and further developed by Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru and Maulana Azad, bureaucrats such as Humayun Kabir and the local art community. Vice-president Dr. S.Radhakrishnan formally inaugurated the NGMA in the presence of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and artists and art lovers of the city on 29 March 1954. The choice of Jaipur House, one of the premier edifices of Lutyens’ Delhi, signified the envisaged high profile of the institution. Designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield, as a residence for the Maharaja of Jaipur, the butterfly-shaped building with a central dome was built in 1936. It was styled after a concept of the Central Hexagon visualised by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It was Lutyens, along with Herbert Baker, who visualized and gave shape to the new capital in Delhi. Along with buildings designed for other princely potentates like Bikaner and Hyderabad, Jaipur House girded the India Gate circle.
Nice and cozy place. Been here in February 2009, one painting I can't still forget. Modern artist, don't remember the name. Some psychedelic picnic or something. View from above. People hanging on the lawn, some sitting some laying on a mat. Some objects also on the mat - don't remember exactly, maybe some food, maybe some other stuff. One of the people smoking a cigarette, a classic transparent plastic lighter (green or yellow?) is laying on the mat near the smoking person. Colors are psychedelic, objects seem glowing like you are tripping on mushrooms or acid. If someone could tell me what is the author or painting or what author it can be look like. I tried to ask writing email directly on the gallery email, but they didn't tell.
Very silent, like a library. Wonderful art as well. But there were some things I couldn't comprehend, and some that didn't make a lot of sense. Art is art, anyway. Liked the place!
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