Smiling Bronze
On the Open Road: A Conversation with K.S. Radhakrishnan on the occasion of his Retrospective Journey Through 50 Years of Sculptural Excellence at Centre for Contemporary Art, Bikaner House By Gaurav Kumar Sculptor K.S. Radhakrishnan’s first-ever inaugural retrospective, titled “On…
Plural India at Visual Arts Gallery from 18th to 23rd October
For serious art collectors, the process of editing their collection is as emotional an affair as it is to add. Anjani Kumar Singh, a prolific and avid art lover, who is the force behind the truly international Bihar Museum holds…
FLIGHTS OF FANCY: ABU DHABI ART – Rajesh Punj
With everything of our lives online for many months of the pandemic, and the visual becoming the video experience, a much anticipated return to the real has the 2021 edition of Abu Dhabi Art making up for lost time, with…
THE VENICE BIENNALE – Uma Prakash
Venice Biennale 59 was fascinating, invigorating and extremely engaging. Curator Cecilia Aleman’s Milk of Dreams shares its title with surrealist artist Leonora Carrington fantastic book and illustrations with the same name. It describes a constantly changing magical world brought about…
COMPANY PAINTING VISUAL MEMOIRS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY INDIA- Gaurav Kumar
A lengthy black tattoo line running from a tribal woman’s nose up to her forehead may be a mark of her caste or tribe. She is carrying a parrot in her hand. The woman is dressed in a white sari…
WHEN THE NEEDLE IS THE BRUSH: IN CONVERSATION WITH GOPIKA NATH -Gaurav Kumar
A significant element of material culture is textiles. They might be considered as works of art, as cultural symbols, as technological objects, or as commodities. The textile arts reflect much of what is valuable in any society metaphorically. They are…
FLUID EMOTION: DISTILLED ECSTASY
DEVESHI GOSWAMI CAPTURES THE JUXTAPOSE OF FREE-FLOWING EMOTIONS AND THE FEELING OF ECSTASY THAT EMANATES FROM IT. Presented by Sanchit Art, the show will be held at Shridharani Gallery from 1st to 9th October. Her art resonates with the playful abundance of a…
SHRINGĀRI – Upasana Bhattacharya
Sometimes I wonder, how overwhelmed a curator must feel, when he decides to put together a leviathan number of artworks, each outstanding, into one tangible assemblage. How does he screen, how does he eliminate, and how does he win his…
WEAVING AVANT-GARDE- – Krispin Joseph PX
Making textile is considered itself an art practice in antiquity. The continuing exercise of creating and transforming the richness of the cloth in the contemporary art world is an enduring activity. Weavers are indigenous art practitioners engaging with cultural settings…
EARTHLY MANIFESTATION OF LORD SRI VISHNU AT SRIRANGAM- Apurva Sinha
‘vede rāmāyane caiva purāne bhārate tathā ādāv ante ca madhye ca harih sarvatra gīyate’- Bhagavad Gita Imagine, you are in a meditative loop and you wait for the religious experience to happen which could be in the form of a…
THE REVIVAL OF THE TRIBAL MANADANA ART OF RANTHAMBORE: Ensuring sustainable livelihood to the downtrodden tribal women painters- Prof. Dr. Chinmay Mehta
When we go through the history of Modern Art we find how French modernists were liberated from the age-old conventional naturalistic and photorealistic trends in art. Modern French painters started exploring alternative art forms of other countries breaking all the…
FEMALE BIOPICS IN INDIA: ALTERNATIVE NOTIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS – Saraswathy K Bhattathiri
Life writing had entered formally intoliterary genre in the 18th century with the Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell but its earliest traces are as old as Plutarch’s writings on emperor Alexander. Biographies intend to focus on larger-than-life/ eminent…
EXPRESSIONS OF NATURE – Vikash Nand Kumar
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations. Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective.” -Paul Cezanne Nature has always fascinated mankind by its sheer beauty, power,…
Rita Jhunjhunwala presents a beautiful confluence of poetry and paintings in her solo exhibition ‘Bheegi Lakeerein’
24 th to 28 th September | Living Traditions Center (LTC), Bikaner House, New Delhi Celebrated artist Rita Jhunjhunwala presents her solo show BHEEGI LAKEEREIN at Living Traditions Center (LTC), Bikaner House that will be inaugurated on 23rd of September and…
People, Moments, Lives: Portraits by Sanjeet Chowdhury- Ranu Roychoudhuri
As a representational genre, portraiture has a long and diverse history provoking intellectual debates across cultures and generations of artists, subjects, patrons, curators, critics, and viewers. It manifests in varied media as one of the most versatile forms to visually…
In Conversation with “FOREST MAN” Bulu Imam-Gaurav Kumar
Padma Shri Bulu Imam is a gem that many people are unaware of. He is an archaeologist, a revivalist of tribal paintings, and the recipient of the Gandhi Foundation’s International Peace Award for his humanitarian efforts. He is a big-game…
How Women Became A Medium of Social Critique For Artist Bikash Bhattacharjee – Sneha Gautam
A mention of artist Bikash Bhattacharjee brings to mind the large repertoire of his spellbinding portraits, which depicted Bengali people from different classes and social milieus, especially women. Portraying his subjects with minute details of their form and depth in…
India Art Fair 2022: Celebration for enthusiast art lovers – Uma prakash
The 13th India Art fair held at NSCI was a wonderful celebration for enthusiast art lovers who flocked to the venue regardless of sultry weather and a revival of a few Covid cases. This much waited fair returned after two…
The Lost Pair – Saraswathy K Bhattathiri
Review on the solo show ‘Is Today Better than Yesterday’ by Surekha Sharada at 1 Shantiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, 17th -24th May 2022. Surekha Sharada is a contemporary visual artist based in Bangalore. Her works have been exhibited in various national…
Rokeya Sultana – Gaurav Kumar
Exhibition of works and launch of monograph at Lalit Kala Akademi, National Academy of Art, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, 6th -26th June 2022 This knee-buckling collection of more than forty years of Rokeya Sultana’s art, which is most known for…
ART MAGNUM & GOLF GREEN GALLERY PRESENT NIRMAYA SPARSA BRINGING BENGAL ART TO DELHI
A rich representation of master artists the show comes alive on 12th August 2022 at Shridharani Gallery. Art Magnum and Golf Green Gallery present ‘ Healing Touch (Niramaya Sparsa)’, a group exhibition featuring eminent modern and contemporary artists from Bengal and showcasing the cultural…
‘Can we Talk’ – a solo show by Mohd. Intiyaz at Method Kalaghoda
Date – Ongoing until 21st August Address –Method Kalaghoda – 86, Nagindas Master Rd, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001 Description – Many hardships are not unique, yet despite being a reality shared among many, things are difficult to talk about…
Bind/ Bond – Uma Prakash
Threshold Gallery’s latest exhibition Bind/Bound speaks to a wide variety of contemporary concerns from bonding to the necessity of acceptance. It examines the fragility of human existence, and speaks about life and the human spirit on a most profound level….
Inherited Arts Forum at India Art Fair 2022 Exploring the world of indigenous art forms in India-Chhavi Jain
Indian lore is rooted in storytelling, iconography and symbolism that, in grandiose or mundane forms, surrounds us inevitably. From the first known source of communication, take the logosyllabic script and signs found in caves dating back to the Indus Valley…
Spirit from bondage to freedom: An Interview with Sonali Chaudhari – Yeindrila Das
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. -Auguste Rodin Sonali Chaudhari is a Visual Artist based in New Delhi, India, having…
Affect to Effect: an interview with Julia Crabtree and William Evans – Rajesh Punj
For British duo Julia Crabtree and William Evans sculpture, and the sculptural experience, have less to do with fixed forms, those that become the icons of the modern age, theirs is an almost adolescent interest in materials and matter that…
ZAMIN: HOMELANDS- CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS AT JNAF – Harshada Mane
On the momentous occasion of the 100 years of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) coinciding with the artist S. H. Raza’s centenary, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation (JNAF) presented Zamin: Homelands, showcases a thoughtfully curated collection of the artist’s work…
Prominent singer Bhupinder Singh passed away at the age of 82 in Mumbai on July 18 at a Mumbai Hospital.
Renowned ghazal singer Bhupinder Singh, known for crooning classics like ‘Do Diwane Shehar Mein’, “Naam Gum Jayega” and “Dil Dhoondta Hai”, died on Monday due to suspected colon cancer and COVID-19-related complications at a city hospital, his wife Mitali Singh…
Famous artist Achuthan Kudallur at 77 passed away in Chennai on Monday morning, July 18
Famous artist Achuthan Kudallur, 77, passed away in Chennai on Monday morning, July 18, from an illness associated with ageing. The artist was admitted to a private hospital in the city after becoming ill over the previous few days. He…
Artist Suvigya Sharma allies with OwlUnited to protect globally endangered species
Renowned international miniature artist Suvigya Sharma partners with OwlUnited- a revolutionary NFT project uniting business, charity, and digital art, towards their mission to protect endangered species globally. Suvigya a TEDx speaker and an artist known for his miniature paintings, fresco…
AKSHYA PRATISTHAN PRESENTS BROTHER’S @2022 WITH ITS 27TH EDITION; SUPPORTS SPECIALLY-ABLED CHILDREN
For the first time since the pandemic, the cultural melange will offer the best of Indian sustainable brands, as Akshya Pratisthan Brother’s @2022 continues to support a conscious lifestyle. When: 12th July Where: Ballroom, Hyatt Regency, New Delhi Timings: 10.30am…
Interweave Consulting Marks Pride Month with Critically Acclaimed Play ‘Ek Madhav Baug’
Bangalore, 14th June, 2022: As part of its initiatives to mark Pride Month, Interweave Consulting, a leading Bangalore-based inclusion solutions consulting firm is hosting a virtual reading of the critically acclaimed play Ek Madhav Baug, from 3:30 – 5:00 pm…
Gallerie Nvyā presents a solo show by Aparna Bidasaria titled “FALAK – Meditations on the Banyan” that showcases a tapestry of evocative paintings of the Banyan Tree, curated by Uma Nair
What: A solo show by Aparna Bidasaria: “Falak – Meditations on the Banyan” presented by Gallerie Nvyā When: Opening on 18th June, 2022. The exhibition will be on view till 25th June, 2022 Where: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Bikaner House, between Pandara…
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