As one steps into the white-walled, high-ceilinged hall on the first floor of the Durbar Hall Art Centre, the Last Supper I at the far end screams ‘look at me’ and ‘keep looking at me.’ It is very hard to take one’s eyes off the six-feet-by-eight-feet oil on canvas painting. The show features the artist’s […]
Wooden toys that one can make at the workshop | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The joy of building a paper boat with dad. The excitement of holding the same pair of scissors, the small shared silences while making something together. In a world of screen time and busy schedules, it is rare for fathers and […]
Artist Balan Nambiar’s home in Bengaluru | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Located a few lanes within Jayamahal Extension, is artist Balan Nambiar’s home studio. Sunlight sweeps in through the long windows and hits the framed glass paintings on the walls as Balan passes around freshly cut watermelon pieces to the group assembled in his living […]
In its 15th edition, Emerging Palettes returns to Srishti Art Gallery in collaboration with Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, presenting young contemporary artists who are pushing the boundaries of material and memory. Selected from over 300 entries, this year’s 11 participating artists explore diverse mediums ranging from textiles and ceramics to steel, wood, and video installation. They craft […]
Olympe Ramakrishna with her installation | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “I’ve displayed these portraits under high ceilings too, but I think this is the lowest one,” says Franco-Indian visual artist Olympe Ramakrishna, referring to the low ceiling at Alliance Française of Hyderabad. Her installation, Women of Urban India, currently showing at the French institute, features […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Late last year, Amitava Das held a solo show in New Delhi, In Another Time That Is Now, featuring a wide range of works spanning his career — from early pieces dating back to the 1960s to more recent works created in 2015. The show was held in collaboration with Shrine Empire Gallery and Art Exposure […]
