Kathmandu, May 16 -- Walking into any art gallery, you'll see some people focused on the artworks in front of them, while others are busy taking pictures. These galleries are no longer stuffy white cubes filled with silent adults deep in contemplation. Instead, they serve as potential locations for Instagram and Snapchat stories. But what's the connection? For the many working artists out there, it's not so black and white.

Three Nepali artists who spend time in galleries discuss this cultural phenomenon: Krisha Tamrakar (artist and co-director of Artudio), Bijaya Maharjan (multidisciplinary abstract artist and teaching faculty at Kathmandu University), and Sugat Shakya (cultural artist and teaching faculty at Srijana College of Fine Art...