The Third Sphere by Amit Mukhopadhyay
One may look at antiquity and say that public art or art in public places existed in ancient Greece where the busts of political figures in the squares and the games, in the circuses were powerful carriers of political meanings….
How Green is My Valley by Kishori Kaul, Review By Uma Prakash
The spirit of Kashmir pervades through Kishori Kaul’s retrospective exhibition titled How Green Is My Valley and presented by Anant Art at Shridarani in Triveni Kala Sangam. Wonder and sensitivity, an integral part of the artist’s persona, is reflected in…
Metaphors of the Inner Realm by Latika Katt, Review by Uma Prakash
Well-known Indian sculptor Latika Katt’s (born in1948) eclectic exhibition at Gandhi-King Plaza, India International Centre, Delhi titled Metaphors of the Inner Realm showcased a collection of 57 sculptures, made from marble, terracotta, stone, and bronze. These remarkable sculptures move between…
Tuwaiq Sculpture 2023, Saudi Women Artists, Rajaa Alshafae
This is the fourth edition of what has become central to the Riyadh Arts calendar in Riyadh and Saudi Arabia, The Tuwaiq Sculpture Symposium rewards its artists, selected from an open call, with a tenacity that serves them, as they…
Of Lines and a Legacy: Remembering K.M. Namboothiri by Christina Ravi
From among the many artistic greats India has produced, a lithe, gentle giant stood larger than life through his nuanced, sensitive art using the most primitive two-dimensional form – lines. K.M. Vasudevan Namboothiri (13 September 1925 – 7 July 2023),…
The Spirit of Chromatic Metaphors By Elizabeth Rogers
Spirits and symbolic languages of art are universal, ever-evolving with paradigms of form, technique, and materials. The essence of a work reveals itself in an unending, unfolding of its receptivity and endurance, through viewers and the artist’s embrace of the…
Creating Magic: One Stitch at a Time by Amrita Mukherjee
The two-storey house is located in a typically quiet and thin lane of extended South Kolkata. The main door opens into a huge hall, and a flight of stairs leads to a first-floor room with large windows. As the sunshine…
Banglar Mati, West Bengal: Through The Lens of Love, Preview of The Red Hibiscus Trail by Sanjay Das
– Upasana Bhattacharya “Through my lens, I aim to tell the stories of India’s diverse traditions, capturing the essence of a bygone era that still lives within our communities.” – Upasana Bhattacharya There lies a thrilling, entrancing quality of nostalgia…
Art for Amity by Isha Modi Patodia
‘THE AIM OF ART IS TO REPRESENT NOT THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE OF THINGS, BUT THEIR INWARD SIGNIFICANCE.’ -ARISTOTLE In the modern-day multicultural ethos, while the “global village” has shrunk closer, it has also become a cauldron of conflict. Art has…
Oscar Kokoschka, Guggenheim Bilbao Dieter Buchhart, Anna Karina Hofbauer Oberwildling by Rajesh Punj
Closing in on a hundred when he died in February 1980, Austrian artist Oscar Kokoschka’s oeuvre appears to pulsate with an increasing nervosity that riddled much of his life; as a teenager, moving from one makeshift home to another, to…
The Third Sphere II by Amit Mukhopadhyay
DARE TO KNOW– Horace “BEGIN, BE BOLD AND VENTURE TO BE WISE”– Horace Immanuel Kant, the author of – What is Enlightenment? describes Enlightenment as man’s emergence from immaturity which is not only a lack of understanding of the self…
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