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Monthly Art Magazine in India

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    Shampa Sircar Das’Devi Uma Nair The colours are juxtaposed to construct a range of hues that sedate and inspire a quiet meditative mood. And as the work progresses it is becomes more aesthetic and less of an idea, and the…

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    Crafting Creative Intricaies With Time And Space: Sumakshi Singh Dr. Ashrafi S. Bhagat She is a designer who crafts her painted, embroidered or sculpted artistry with dexterous skill and acute perception. Her crafted creations of forms and objects have saliency…

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    Traversing Inhabitants Works By Fawad Tamkanat And Nipun Kumar Palak Dubey The works by Fawad Tamkanat and Nipun Kumar clubbed together into a showtitled, ‘Crosscurrents’ were recently on display at Gallery Space, Hyderabad from July through August. The works by…

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    Magic of colours, poetry of gestures:Sen Shombit Art & Deal Correspondent Darkness to light: Landing in Kolkata from Shohidnogor 50kms away was like entering a foreign country. I’d leave my mud-bamboo home in a squatted refugee camp without electricity, potable…

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    Kashi Art Residency Tanya Abraham For the four artists who recently completed the 2016 Kashi Art Residency in Kochi based on the concept of ‘material culture’, the outcome from the exchange of thought and the depiction of skill has been…

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    Heritage Conservation- The Church Of Santa Monica Goa: A Case Study Lina Vincent Sunish The Museum management, aware of the deteriorating condition of the 450 year old chapel due to climate conditions and neglect, worked on creating a project proposal…

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    A Monthly Feature On Art Events in Chennai V.V. Ramani Meera – The Soul Divine Meera the poet princess is an epitome of bhakti and total surrender, and her life story that is so strongly embedded in the minds of…

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    Giving Time to Time: Film pieces by Manon De Boer Preeti Kathuria Born in 1966 in Kodaikanal, India, Manon De Boer gained her professional art education in Rotterdam and is currently based in Brussels. Working primarily in photographs and films,…

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    Humankind endeavours hard to evolve and cope with global warming, to accept that September is a really warm month, in Delhi. Change although is inevitable. It constitutes the fabric of existence, what was, cannot remain, forever. We trace the changes…

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    A Peine J’Ouvre Les Yeux Director : Leyla Bouzid Alliance Francaise de Delhi Farah has just graduated, and her family can already picture her as a future doctor. She, at the same time, doesn’t have the same idea. She sings…

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    Evolution of Art in bengal and Kolkata Partha Mukherjee Bengal soaked in different cultures and thereby grew as an important centre for art and culture in the eastern part of the country. While the ‘Caterpillar’ metamorphosed into a ‘Butterfly, it…

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    Nineteenth Century Art of Bengal Amit Mukhopadhyay Opening an exhibition of historic prints in 1954, the famous historian Jadunath Sarkar said, “British role in India did inspire pictorial art of a high order, and the first full century of their…

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    East is East, and West is West and when the Twain meet Dr. Seema Bhalla “East is East, and West is West, and never the Twain shall meet”, the opening lines from “The Ballad of East and West”, written by…

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    Story of a Street Park Street: the past and present swati mishra Every neighbourhood forms a definite part of the memory and identity of a city. Several historians and urbanists have talked of a city being a theatre of memory….

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    Kounteya’s Kolkata-Sainthood Project Uma Nair Kounteya’s photographs have become a massive draw across Italy with hundreds of people stopping to see the photos closely and learn about the city that gave Mother Teresa her name. Imagine a set of photographs…

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    Saint Teresa of calcutta Dilip Banerjee

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    Amina Ahmad Kar a forgotten name from international modernism in Bengal Aparna Roy Baliga When one starts research on women artists from Bengal, the name which familiarizes the work of one of the earliest woman artist, Sunayani Devi with the…

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    Delhi and the national Capital Region catapult into chaos as traffic goes berserk with jams that last for hours at end, courtesy of the heavy monsoon. Rampant downpours and water logging notwithstanding. Almost as if the heavens mourn the loss…

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    Kaleidoscope Piramal Art Gallery Get ready to explore Kaleidoscope, a painting exhibition by group of legendary artists. The two month long exhibition willdisplay the artwork of K.G Subramanyan, M.F Hussain, Ganesh Pyne, K. Ramanujan, Sujata Bajaj, F.N Souza, S.H Raza,…

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    Mona Lisa and My Experience of Viewing A Novel Magnum Opus: An Ecstatic Feeling And Brief Overview Dr. Raj Kumar Mazinder Though my interest in Mona Lisa or Leonardo and also the great European painting tradition especially the Renaissance period…

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    Goa’s Sacred Art Kaavi:Heta Pandit Lina Vincent Sunish Goa (N 15 13’ E 73 37’) would probably topple over if you tried to fit it on a pinhead on the map of western India. Best known for its beautiful beaches…

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    Anubhav Gallery National Museum Making a difference for sightless visions Apurva Sinha Through this article, the writer shares her thoughts on her visit to the ‘Anubhav’ gallery of National Museum, New Delhi. Her exploratory nature brought her in conversation with…

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    Divine Pleasures:Met Museum New York Kronos Collection 17th-19th Century Miniatures Uma Nair Divine Pleasures at the Met museum belongs to a curator who has gifted them to the Met museum-the sanctuary he worked at. This act of generosity speaks of…

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    Syed Haider Raza(1922-2016) Art & Deal Correspondent Syed Haider, legend of modern Indian art breathed his last in Delhi on 23rd July, 2016. He was 94 and had been working up to his last days till his body gave way…

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    Mahasweta Devi(1926-2016) Art & Deal Correspondent Mahashweta Devi, the 90 year old noted writer-activist from Bengal, passed away on July 28th 2016. Born in 1926 in Dhaka, now in Bangladesh,Mahashweta was inspired by both her poet-writer father, Manish Ghatak, and…

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    The Portrait Of A Collector Lina Vincent Sunish In a country with a rich legacy of materialand built heritage, but a relatively smallnumber of museums to house the arte factsor conserve them in-situ, a few individuals are investing personal time…

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    Dhiraj Looking Back Dhiraj Choudhury I landed at the Mexico City airport on the day of my 80th birthday, April 1st 2016. I had left for Tampa airport from Seminole in Florida early in the morning, changing my flight from…

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    Najmi Sura – Remembrance of Things Past Edward Lucie-Smith In her new series of paintings, Najmi Sura evokes the court life of the Indian subcontinent that was ruled by the Mughal emperors. ‘Ruled by’ is, of course an inexact description….

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    Intricate Intaglios in Kolkata(Kolkata) Uma Nair No one thought a sculptor from Shantiniketan would go to France, to forge a new process in printmaking that celebrated the broken colour or pointillist colour printing process. Using techniques of plate preparation such…

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    Two Solo Projects by Artists: Prasanta Sahu and Ushmita Sahu(Hyderabad) Palak Dubey Works by PrasantaSahu, titled, ‘Blueprint of City’ and UshmitaSahu’s titled,’White Noise’ were recently on display at Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad from 1st July to 15th July. Both the…

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    An Inner Retrospective: Laxma Goud Lina Vincent Sunish To celebrate 20 years of Gallery Sumukha Bangalore, an artist who has had a long association with the space was given a solo exhibition- Laxma Goud, ‘An Inner Retrospective’ brought together drawings,…

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    The art fraternity lost a veteran artist this June. K G Subramanyan passed away at the age of ninety two. We contribute this issue to the master who shall be greatly missed, a veteran versatile and prolific, who had been…

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    Terracotta Jewelry Making by lamour Bloom & Grow Creating a piece of adornment is satisfying to the very soul of a woman who’d like to adorn a being with yet another layer of beauty. This craft form unleashes your creativity…

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    K. G. Subramanyan: Mentor to Half A Century of Students/Academia Uma Nair As an artist, Subramanyan or Manida is known as one of the most versatile practitioners, having done works, apart from painting, in the traditions of muralterracotta tiles as…

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