Context: Recently, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi will organise online NAIMISHA 2020- Summer Art Program from 8th June 2020 to 3rd July 2020, to reach its audiences during the Covid-19 outbreak.
About ONLINE NAIMISHA 2020 

• The title of the program NAIMISHA-represents a sacred place where people offer their shraddha or devotion.  
• During this pandemic situation and lockdown, museums and cultural institutions cannot serve visitors and audiences as usual.
• It led NGMA to explore new areas and platforms to reach to its audiences.
• In the last two month or so NGMA has organised many programs and exhibitions virtually.
• The technological development  provides  an opportunity to organise such programs digitally.
• NGMA is making an endeavour to host its most popular summer art program NAIMISHA digitally.

AIM: The month-long ONLINE summer program by NGMA, New Delhi is an initiative to provide a chance to its participants to create and learn from practicing artists.
Four inclusive workshops have been planned by NGMA to engage and increase engagement virtually. In the online NAIMISH 2020 program, four workshops will be organized entitled:

• Painting workshop,
• Sculpture workshop,
• Printmaking and
• Indrajaal – The Magic of Art (Interdisciplinary creative workshop to understand Freedom).

About National Gallery of Modern Art

• NGMA was established in 1954, at the Jaipur House, New Delhi.
• It is run and administered as a subordinate office to the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
• The NGMA has two branches, one at Mumbai and the other at Bengaluru.

Its principal aim and objective are

• To acquire and preserve works of modern art from 1850s onward
• To organize, maintain and develop galleries for permanent display
• To organize special exhibitions not only in its own premises but in other parts of the country and abroad.
• To develop an education and documentation centre in order to acquire, maintain and preserve documents relating to works of modern art
• To develop a specialized library of books, periodicals, photographs and other audio visual materials
• To organize lectures, seminars and conferences, and to encourage higher studies and research in the field of art history, art criticism, art appreciation, museology and the inter-relations on visual and performing arts.