Parmod Mann with one of his sculptures. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT It takes courage, devotion, and an instinctive understanding of the human condition to carve vulnerability into black marble or paint evocative symbolism onto canvas. Parmod Mann does it with grace and his artworks haunt and heal at the same time. Inside Triveni Kala […]
Painting by Francis Newton Souza | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement As Passion Week looms near beginning April 12, one recalls India’s enfant terrible Francis Newton Souza, one of artist Krishen Khanna’s greatest friends and founder of the Progressive Arts Group now known as India Moderns. Why does one remember Souza, and how does he connect […]
There is nothing quite as intriguingly beautiful as a Persian carpet, feels Fannan Raza. The artist and interior designer has crafted over 25 pieces of these lovely “art in carpets”, currently on display at Sublime Galleria. Apart from being strikingly eye-catching, these works of art come alive when one scans the QR code below the […]
Weeks before she set a new record for Indian art by buying a lost M.F. Husain painting called Gram Yatra in a Christie’s sale for ₹119 crore, Kiran Nadar was sitting in the conference room of her museum’s Saket outpost, musing about how her art collecting style had grown. “When I’m collecting an artist, I try to […]
Last September, fashion designer Jenjum Gadi briefly stepped away from clothes. He dipped into an alternate creative outlet, instead — that of sculpture. He took inspiration from his mother’s garden back home in Arunachal Pradesh for Apase, an exhibition featuring brass fruits and vegetables. With its resounding success, Gadi secured a space for himself in […]
At Raghurajpur, art flows like a river through time. Situated in Odisha’s Puri district, this heritage village is a living testament to creativity. Narrow, winding lanes are lined with homes that double as workshops, their verandahs adorned with intricate Pattachitra scrolls, delicate palm-leaf engravings, and vibrant wooden toys. Seated on low stools, men and women […]
Artist Moka Vijay Kumar working on millet art works in Visakhapatnam. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Visakhapatnam-based artist Moka Vijay Kumar, who makes art works with millets, has gained international recognition by securing a place in the America Book of Records as the first artist in the realm of millets. His achievement was recognized on […]
Akkitham Narayanan’s work on display | Photo Credit: Gowri S Akkitham Narayanan strongly believes that art cannot be translated into words, and so he shoots a friendly directive at me: “Don’t exaggerate! I have nothing to say, I am here only to show”. It is almost strange that a veteran artist, one of the pioneers […]
Bukhara at the National Crafts Museum, Delhi | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Step back in time to the 19th Century, where the hues and patterns of Central Asian textiles flourished along the Silk Route, beside spices, precious metals, glassware, horses, and cultural ideas. Bukhara, a city along the route, was at the heart of this […]
Phad artist Prakash Joshi. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries and India share common cultural and civilisational linkages that go back a very long time. A lot of similarities can be found in their literature, architecture and religious texts as well as folk practices. The Ramayana is an epic that has been a […]
