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Sujani Art from Bihar was awarded by UNESCO this year In a diverse country like India, embroidery has always been the expertise of women, both working and homemakers. For every important moment in a woman’s life like wedding, birth, and…

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Painted Almanac   framing time: past, present & future  Anindita Bhattacharya Desmond Lazaro Gulam Mohammed Sheikh Manisha Gera Baswani  Manjunath Kamath  Roshan Chabbria  Ruby Jhunjhunwala  TarshitoStrippoli V Ramesh  Curated by Tunty Chauhan Time and human relationships are crucial elements in the…

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Delving into Roots Painter as Anthropologist Dr. Rajasri Mukhopadhyay Laxman Aelay’s solo exhibition entitled “Euphonic Myths” at the gallery Art Exposure; Kolkata held from 14 September to 06 October 2018 is a tour de force. It exudes a raw energy…

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Indigenously fan-tastic Upasana Bhattacharya As a child growing up in the late 80’s, I fondly remember certain quintessential elements from our middle class Bengali household. The standard haathpakha1 from Shantipur was one of them. Each time there was a power…

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PIDGIN: A Visual Interplay Pidgin: A Visual Interplay took place between the 12th and 14th July at NIV Arts Center in New Delhi, and was the result of a residency by artist Khandakar Ohida. Her thought process leading up to…

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Queer: Identity, Sexuality & Desire Mansi Dhiman Mandhwani “This exhibition celebrates the un-confinable and unflinching individualism of over 25 artist voices, self identified as QUEER, this exhibition works at the intersections of identity and life experience, genre and process…. shattering…

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A Contemporary Approach to Floral Still Lifes Spring in the Wintertime A Series of Photographs by Bas Meeuws Tanishka D’Lyma In seeking inspiration, or not, an encounter with nature brightens the senses stimulatingan overcoming urge to come up to scale…

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Those Days: An Exhibition of Vinatege Photographs Mansi Dhiman Mandhwani In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.’ Photography’s long-acknowledged supremacy to mirror the face of the world was by no means forsaken,…

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Explorations of the Natural World with a Brush and a Camera Elizabeth Rogers “For Man is by nature an artist.”Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Within the hues of monochrome,exploration of myriad media defines artists and their respective realm of connection with nature….

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Everything is Black & White Art & Deal correspondent Palette Art Gallery’s summer show ‘Everything is Black & White’opened to the public on the 4th of May 2018, with the main theme being that all works were representations of the…

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A Reflection of the Earth in Art Ragmala – Songs of Anthropocene Tanishka Dl’yma The song of the earth is the first thing the protagonist takes in when he steps out of his hut in the morning, and finds it…

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Caressing History – A draft for body based Historiography INDIRA LAKShMI PRASAD The skin is a central theme throughout the exhibition, in its context as a vast register for history. The skin tells a story which is both inexorable and…

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IGNOU ROAD 4 Korean Artists’ Unknown Journey Insang Song I G N O U R O A D is a 2km road leading to the Niv Art Center in New Delhi. The road usually suffers from a high level of…

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Pratul Dash – In the Twilight Zone INDIRA LAKSMI PRASAD Delhi Based, Odisha born artist Pratul Dash held his first solo show in 8 years at the Indira Gandhi International Center for the Arts in March 2018, titled ‘In The…

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Street Art India + Asi an Paints initiative ‘Art for All’ festival Gneev Nagi Who could have imagined turning a fish market into a street art project? St+art India in association with Asian Paints managed to beautifully convert the Sassoon…

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Showstopper INDIRA LAKSMI PRASAD Showstopper, the solo exhibition curated by Rahul Bhattacharya is a presentation of the bold practice of young artist Varnita Mahanjan. Conceptually the work of this artist explores ideas which are largely socially taboo, seamlessly juxtaposing aesthetics…

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BUILDING BRIDGES – Art & Deal Correspondent And international, New Media Project; Building Bridges is an international collaborative project between Ushmita Sahu and Emergent Art Space, who brought together a group of 14 young artists from India and overseas to…

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Shades of Green: Abhijit Saikia Art & Deal correspondent Arts4All Gallery in Greater Kailash hosted the solo exhibition of Abhijit Saikia, aptly titled ‘Shades of Green’. It is the artists first ever solo exhibition which consisted of 14 works, including…

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‘I Wonder’ Rajesh Ram’s fifth solo show Indira Lakshmi Prasad Rajesh Ram’s fifth solo show ‘I Wonder’ came about after a hiatus of nine years, consisting of the artist’s most recent body of work. The water color and life-size bronze…

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Layers of The Gaze Andréia Dulianel, Solo Exhibition Art & Deal Correspondent The exhibition ‘Layers of The Gaze’ by the Brazilian plastic artist Andréia Dulianel was organized by the India International Center and exhibited in the Art Gallery in the…

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FOLKUS – LOOKING BACK SANJAY DE Folkus, the first-ever folk & tribal art gallery of north-east India, was opened on 6th December, 2017 at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road in Silchar, Assam. Sandipan Dutta Purkayastha, Pranab Seal and Ritam Chakraborty are…

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Revisiting Sailoz Mookherjea (1907- 1960): An Artist With a Bohemian Soul Mallika Chakrawarti Many years ago, an artist had begun a silent revolution in India. At least two decades before the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group was conceived, Sailoz Mookherjea imagined…

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Yes Art Can Art & Deal Correspondent Yes Art Can 2017 is just the beginning installment of a series of exhibitions which will take place over the next few years. The exhibition was held at the prominent IGNCA (Indira Gandhi…

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This, The Sublime and it’s Double : Tanya Goel Indira Lakshmi Prasad The ultra-modern architecture of Nature Morte Gallery, South Delhi, was perhaps the perfect complimentary environment for Tanya Goel’s most recent solo exhibition ‘This, The Sublime and it’s Double’….

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Review (Delhi) Swadeshi Art: Treasures of Calcutta’s Pre-Bengal School Mallika Chakrawarti A treasure-trove of vintage lithographs and paintings from 19th century Bengal was showcased at New Delhi’s Akar Prakar Art Advisory. The exhibition titled ‘Swadeshi Art’ was on view from…

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Review (Hyderabad) Two solo shows Palak Dubey Apart from regular group shows and art events, the city of Hyderabad recently hosted two noteworthy solo shows. Kiran Kumar Varikilla’s preview show at Gallery Space (8th August to 14th August) titled ‘Form…

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Review (Delhi) Art Bahrain, Across Borders Art & Deal correspondent There could not have been a more opulent setting for ‘Art Bahrain, Across Borders’ than Bikaner House in central Delhi. The atmosphere on the opening night was certainly electric; a…

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Delhi A TEMPORARY MUSEUM OF OUR TIMES AND IDEAS Dhritabrata Bhattacharjya Tato ‘Permitted’ and ‘prohibited’ are two sides of the same coin. They switch over from one side to the other with the change of location – both politcal and…

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Kolkata Between Method and Material: The Shifting Shape of Pedagogy Sampurna Chakraborty “The reason why art practice changes is not far to seek. Whatever its position in the hierarchy of activities in a society, art practice is a part of…

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In Retrospect: Recollections of Four Abstract-Loving Artists Mallika Chakrawarti Recollections can be a walk-through of significant events and memories that shape the identity of an artist. Certain recollections may rekindle a faint smile or trigger a grim mood, but nonetheless…

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SHRUTI MAHAJAN TRAVERSING THROUGH PERIPHERIES AND OPEN EXTENTS PALAK DUBEY The series of works on display at Goethe Zentrum, Hyderabad by artist Shruti Mahajan (from 29th June to 11th July) were an extension of her series of works done on…

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WALKING IN AN ICONOGRAPHIC PAST OF SOUTHERN INDIA: GOMBE MANSI DHIMAN MANDHWANI ‘The subject of India Iconography is one of the most fascinating branches of indology which found its origin in the womb of remote post.’ -D. N. Shukla ‘What…

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MEET CHELSEA MANNING, WHOSE DNA IS MADE INTO A WORK OF ART ASHISH SHARMA After being in prison for seven years for disclosing sensitive military documents to WikiLeaks, Manning is back with the artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg for a collaborative show…

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A Journey Towards Traditional History: Mukhosh Mansi Dhiman Mandhwani Art Konsult Gallery is situated at a place which is a hub for food joints, designers, hippy culture, contemporary art and artists! yes I am talking about Hauz Khas Village, it…