Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

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Colombo Art Biennale ‘Makes History’ with it’s Third Edition Kurchi Dasgupta Colombo Art Biennale saw the contemporary manifestation of the turbulent though dead yet alive past through the aesthetics of the present with the eye of the future. Kurchi Dasgupta…

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival Uma Prakash In August, Edinburgh witnesses the world’s largest art festival, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Born out of Edinburgh International Festival, the fringe festival is a festive platform celebrating all genres of art from music to theatre…

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A Site Where Art Awakes 3rd Regional Art Workshop’ 2014 at Silchar, Assam Abhibrata Chakrabarty The green meadow of a remote village of Choto Dudh Patil in Silchar was awash in colour on the evening of 15th January of 2014….

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WAVES FEST MAKING WAVES Art and Deal Correspondent Ever since it’s humble inception in 2007, Waves has quickly grown to become a national level festival with participation from colleges all over the country and footfalls reaching over 60,000. Being the…

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Banaras Utsav 2013 – Sushma SabnisThe Banaras Utsav – 2013, an art, literature, architecture and cultural extravaganza with a wide range of programs planned, is aimed at reclaiming the city’s reputation as the cultural heritage centre of the country. The…

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George Town Unobscured Penang as a regional art centre Waswo X. Waswo A large crowd was also in attendance during the opening talk by Maggie Steber at her exhibition, The Audacity of Beauty. The venue, at George Town’s soon-to-officially-open Camera…

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Being Afloat in Kustia Binoy PaUl’s Vashan Art & Deal Correspondent Binoy Paul used plastic and cloth as his artistic media. He started a sort of story using patches of a thinly-threaded towel, locally called gamcha in Bengali, stitched to…

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The Modern Miniature : A Global Collaboration? Sandhya Bordewekar In late 2009, she returned to India to work on a complex collaborative project with Ajay Sharma. In such a situation, it was already clear that both artists came from tremendously…

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Women Re-Claiming Their Bodies in R.A.P.E Show JohnyML You may ask why. To answer this question I have to go back to the time when I conceptualized this show. Delhi was a morally shaken city after the gang rape issue….

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With Love from a Cement Company R Dhanya A few years ago the BBMP (Bruhat Bangalore Mahanangara Palike) took upon the task of painting a large part of Bangalore’s public walls in blue, with historical ethnographic and cultural visual platitudes…

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MATI Preserving the Art & Heritage of our Times….. Management of Art Treasures of India is a trust dedicated to the promotion of India’s alternative art heritage, and be a discursive platform for its continuing journeys. It aims to be…

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TRIALS OF THE ARTISTS AS AUTEUR Th is note on ‘Trial and error’ would try to bring in some of the aspects which are associated with these words. Th e word error can be the starting point. When one talks…

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People for Animals People for Animals (PFA) is the largest animal welfare organization in the country. They have 34 hospitals, which are working progressively to make India free of rabies. They do animal rescue work and their efforts have shown…