Snubbed, Palekar slams NGMA

Mumbai, February 10

Veteran actor-director Amol Palekar, who was last week interrupted during his speech by some members of the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) here, today said he was only trying to seek reasons behind the cancellation of retrospectives of two senior artists.

Retrospective is an exhibition showing the development of an artist’s work over a period of time. At the opening of an exhibition in memory of artist Prabhakar Barwe on Friday evening, Palekar was repeatedly interrupted during his speech by some NGMA members.

A video available on social media showed Palekar criticising the Ministry of Culture for reportedly scrapping the advisory committees at the gallery’s Mumbai and Bengaluru centres. Despite being interrupted during his speech on Friday, Palekar had refused to stop. — PTI

Committees not disbanded: govt

Responding to actor-director Amol Palekar’s charge, the Ministry of Culture on Sunday clarified that the NGMA committees in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi had not been dissolved, their terms had ended recently