June 8, 2025
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Toys from trash – The Hindu

Educator and Padma Shri awardee Arvind Gupta who makes toys from trash to teach science to underprivileged children | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Arvind Gupta folds a sheet of paper to the right and then to the left, and comes up with a design that shows the rhombus, diagonals, and the mathematical rules hidden within […]

How the Kalamkari craft travelled from Srikalahasti to Thanjavur

150-year-old tapestry | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement When people think of Kalamkari, the first words that come to their minds are Srikalahasti or Machilipattanam and not Karuppur or Thanjavur, though the art form has its roots in the latter towns too. “Kalamkari first found royal patronage in Tamil Nadu in 1540, when Sevappa Nayak, the […]

Theatre as an antidote to loneliness | Interview with Jehan Manekshaw of Drama Schools Foundation Mumbai

A rehearsal session at Drama School Mumbai. From studying theatre at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and Birkbeck College in London to working as an associate executive producer with Zarina Mehta and Ronnie Screwvala at UTV, to becoming the Director (Strategy and Vision) at Drama Schools Foundation Mumbai (DSFM), Jehan Manekshaw has come a long way. […]

Prasanta Sahu’s subaltern focus – The Hindu

A cherished time of the day in many parts of India is the convivial gathering around a cup of tea. In tea stalls, the chatter ranges from the raucous to the intimate and from the political to the personal, so when one beholds artist Prasanta Sahu’s installation Tea Table Talk, it makes one pause. Three-thousand commissioned […]

Art made affordable – The Hindu

Deer Family, Gond artwork by Venkat Raman Singh Shyam in Ink and Acrylic on Canvas at Affordable Art in India exhibition in Delhi | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Method Contemporary Art Space, in collaboration with Baro Market, has launched the ‘Affordable Art in India’ exhibition in Delhi. The initiative provides a unique opportunity to collectors, […]

Chennai’s House of Klothberg hosts Coalescence a contemporary art show in a retail setting

Coalescence at The House of Klothberg  | Photo Credit: Sangita Rajan shot on OnePlus A place for everything, and everything in its place. That is how the world makes sense. But art is meant to, and often does, defy boundaries. That defiance is what gives this art exhibition its quiet power. Rather than hang politely on […]

Twenty-five rare M.F. Husain paintings to be auctioned after Bombay HC nod

Archive image of artist M.F. Husain. | Photo Credit: K. Gajendran 25 rare paintings of late Indian modernist painter M.F. Husain, secured by NAFED as part of the proceeds of an alleged loan default case, will be auctioned on June 12 pursuant to a nod from the Bombay High Court. The auction titled, ‘M.F. Husain: […]

This botanical illustrator is charting the endemic and endangered species of the Western Ghats, one brushstroke at a time

Nilgiri Chilappan | Photo Credit: Special arrangement At the intersection of art and science, lies the realm of botanical illustration. For Suresh Ragavan, a bird artist, who has served as a botanical illustrator at the Botanical Survey of India for over 33 years, this realm has not only been a source of his bread and […]

A kaleidoscope of perspectives at Andhra University’s annual art show in Visakhapatnam

Visitors going around the artworks on display at the annual BFA and MFA 2025 exhibition – Spectrum at the Department of Fine Arts, AU, in Visakhapatnam . | Photo Credit: KR Deepak Spectrum, the annual art exhibition of the Department of Fine Arts at Andhra University, is an honest dialogue between artists and the world […]