EXHIBITION
Sultans Of Deccam India, 1500-1700 : Opulence and Fantasy Metropolitan Museum New York Uma Nair The magnifi cent museum Sultans who ruled the Deccan in the middle ages, prided themselves on attracting the best available literary and artistic talent to…
EXHIBITION
Jeevan Chakra : Multicity Arts Project, Curator Laitka Gupta Uma Nair January 2016 saw an exciting programme of cultural activity across three cities -Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi – all part of Medicine Corner. The programme was an initiative of one…
EXHIBITION
Calligraphy and Fine Art Aiyana Gunjan Craft vs Art : vCraft is a tradition passed on, repeated, done over and over again. In craft there is the collective unconscious made conscious with every stroke. The form, the subject, the lines,…
EXHIBITION
Spirit of Children : Christine Margotin Uma Nair At the celebration of India International Centre’s Experience Festival as well as Lalit Kala Akademi ChristineMargotin’s sculptures of children drew gazes and interest alike.” I do not paint bronze but I prepare…
ARCHITECTURE
Sanderson : ICC Art Gallery Uma Nair At the India International Centre Gallery was an exhibition that made Delhi’s ancestors grin with happiness. ‘Graphic brilliance vies with vintage vitality’. A delightfully laid out aesthetic extravaganza of the historic haunts of…
PHOTO ESSAY
Paris Palette Text & Photographs : Rupin Nair Thomas It was 2001, as I sat in my honors seminar class I was handed the reading package for the semester. We were to participate in a ‘conversation’ for a semester on…
COVER STORY
Accumulated Consciousness: An interview with Hema Upadhyay Rajesh Punj Mumbai based artist Hema Upadhyay appears utterly affected by the cityscape, as she explains of movement and migration as though it were a modern disease inflicted upon the masses. As they…
& SNIPPETS
& SNIPPETS Gerald Wilde : From the Abyss 27 November 2015 – 30 January 2016 October Gallery presents From the Abyss, an exhibition of Gerald Wilde’s paintings comprising his early wartime works of the 1940s to his re-emergence in the…
COVER STORY
A Satirical demand for time-bound Graffiti and Street Art: Art on Public Walls and Streets in Bengaluru H.A. Anil Kumar To represent what one wants to but doesn’t wish to be identified as its author, due to the pleasure inherent…
COVER STORY
Street Art- A perceptible trend to rekindle social cognizance Apurva Sinha “I have always paid a great deal of attention to what happens on walls. When I was young I often even copied graffiti”- Pablo Picasso Wide walls, artistic valour,…
COVER STORY
Paris: Beauty of Graffiti – ART & DEAL CORRESPONDENT History shows that the street art flourished in the 1980s. Two pioneers are at work: Blek le Rat, stencil painter who was inspired by a cartoon character, Blekle Rock, and Jérôme…
COVER STORY
Establishing The Public Space as a Canvas Aastha Duggal Today’s Indian street art takes on the same mission with its inclination towards social commentary. From matters of civic welfare to implications of political conditions, street artists choose to address various…
COVER STORY
At the heart of the 56th Biennale di Venezia is a consideration of the state of things Art & Deal International Correspondent Okwui Enwezor, director of the Biennale and curator of the international exhibition, organized a show that pushes his…
COVER STORY
Sunset at Shanti Niketan-Jehangir Art Gallery : Sanjay Bhattacharya Uma Nair Imagine standing before canvasses that are bathed in golden, warm sunlight with the setting sun burning in its coppery sheen like Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s narrative in The Ancient Mariner.12…
