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Born for Art Niren Sen Gupta Interview Upasana Bhattacharya It is not every day that one gets to meet a man as illustrious as humble. It is indeed remarkable how an artist who has painted masterpieces over many decades, one…
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“My life has been a broad canvas…” A Satish Gujral Interview Ritika Lall Chakravartty I was basking in the sun, surrounded by the magnetic life size sculptures, while I also walked through the layers of architectural marvel and set my…
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Baluchar: A Textile Heritage Darshan Shah Baluchar has been synonymous with rich textiles bearing a lineage. Patronized by the elites, the Baluchar evolved creating its own specific genre. Its designs and motifs, its comparison to relevant art forms, the socio-economic…
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Subho Tagore’s Collection of Bauchari Sarees Siddhartha Tagore Subho Tagore’s My Father, Subho Tagore, was an artist, thinker, writer and poet all combined into one. He was one of the founding fathers of cubism in India and had showcased his…
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A Unity of Opposites An Elmgreen and Dragset Interview Rajesh Punj Given the choice between success and failure, it is likely we would want to triumph every time. But the order of things, the inevitable sequence of mistakes and melodramas…
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“On His Last leg” Story of the Hand pulled Rickshawalas in Kolkata Photographs & Story: Dilip Banerjee The documentary seeks to narrate the story of the hand-drawn rickshaw pullers of Kolkata who have, for years, dotted the landscape of the…
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The Mystic and Her Colours Subhra Mazumdar For the art world, Pratiksha Apurv was always unique, and best described as a mystic who prayed through colours, to unravel the spiritual path without sinking into prayerful jargon. Somewhere down the line…
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Van Gogh to Picasso: the thannhauser Legacy Guggenheim Museum, BilbaoRajesh Punj Bequeathed by the German industrialist Justin K. Thannhauser (1892 – 1976), the Guggenheim Foundation and Frank Gehry’s monument to Modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, join hands to celebrate…
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Soft Diseases Matthew Ronay interview Rajesh Punj For years I use to talk a lot about ‘muscle memory’. There is a thing inside my body that makes me do certain kinds of lines, that leads to a certain kind of…
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MONUMENTAL TERRACOTTA Photographs & Story: Sanjay Das I am a Travel Photographer, majorly working on storytelling from different parts of India for the past two decades. During my journey I have made an effort to discover interesting known and unknown…
Review – Delhi
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…
Review – Delhi
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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Glass Architecture Jean-Michael Othoniel interview Rajesh Punj In his early correspondence on glass, seventeenth century Italian glassmaker Antonio Neri referred to the Roman author and natural philosopher Pliny the Elder, who cited that its origins could be located to the…
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Indigenous Australia A Visual Insight into the Folklore and History of Aboriginal Australia Indira lakshmi prasad The art work on display ranged from traditional Australian Aboriginal tribal works to contemporary paintings, installations and sculptural works from Australian Aboriginal artists working…
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Oral Tradition and Depictive Narration : Rural Stories in Images Vikas Harish for Naithani Foundation While in the Hindu classical cultures the epic texts; The Mahabharata, The Purana’s and The Ramayana formed a chronicle that was created in the three…
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READING MAY 1968, PARIS : POSTERS OF ATELIER POPULAIRE Amit Mukhopadhyay The Legacy: Alain Geismar, one of the leaders of May ‘68 movement later pointed out, the movement succeeded: “As a social revolution , not as a political one. May’s…
Editorial
This mid-point of the season, when the intense sun is at its most merciless, is the time we usually associate with the winding down of the art season – however I’m glad to see that there are still a wealth…
