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Smile Train India’s photo exhibition on children with clefts at KNMA Delhi is a powerful portrayal of reality and hope

In a world obsessed with perfection, airbrushed images, and filtered realities, a black-and-white portrait exhibition at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) quietly but powerfully disrupts the noise. Every Smile Belongs is a compelling collaboration between Smile Train India, the world’s largest cleft-focused charity organisation, and photographer Komal Bedi Sohal, who has come up […]

Gieve Patel: A canvas of camaraderie

When a deeply loved and admired artist passes away, it is the city left behind and the vast pastiche of friendships made and sustained in it, that offer the best possible summation of a working life in the arts. When that artist is poet, playwright and painter Gieve Patel (1940-2023) and the city as capacious […]

Caravaggio: lover, murderer, artist – The Hindu

I have visited Italian painter Caravaggio in many cities — London, Florence, Rome, Venice, Paris. Now here he is, returning the visits, a guest in my hometown Bengaluru, where Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy is on display at the National Gallery of Modern Art. Caravaggio had carried the painting with him while escaping to Naples after […]

Artist Bharati Sagar on her tryst with Nature

From A Tryst With Nature by artist Bharati Sagar | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement As much as she loves working with new media, Bengaluru-based artist, Bharati Sagar, is happy to return to her water colours, dry pastels, charcoal and oil to capture her heart’s delight — Nature and people. Her latest solo show, A Tryst […]

This weekend, Hyderabad fundraiser showcases works of masters, from Thota Vaikuntam to Ramesh Gorjala

Sushma Thota with an artwork by Thota Vaikuntam | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement An art exhibition showcasing the works of acclaimed artists such as Thota Vaikuntam, Jogen Chowdary, Shakti Burman, Laxman Aelay and Ramesh Gorjala, is on view in Hyderabad. The showcase is a part of Paropakar 2025: Art for Education, a fund-raising initiative by […]

The Real Van Gogh Immersive Experience set to arrive in Bengaluru by June end

Self-portrait with bandaged ear, 1889 painting by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) obtained on June 30, 2021. Courtesy of The Courtauld/Handout via REUTERS | Photo Credit: The Courtauld Even the most art-impaired among us have marvelled at those stars swirling in a blue, blue sky or that splendid clatch of sunflowers. That is how impactful the […]

Air India Art Collection at NGMA Bengaluru carries a whiff of nostalgia

Once upon a time, there was a maharajah who flew around on his private jet, sharing glimpses of India with people all over the world. And whenever he returned to his country, he would come laden with tales of the many wonders he had seen during his travels. The Maharajah (for that was his name […]

Krishen Khanna | Marching to his own beat

The first time we met was at a gathering of luminaries at a retreat in Goa intent on saving “Democracy in India”. We did such things in those distant days of the 70s. Goa was still an unexplored destination. There were dancers, poets, historians, political activists, the odd freedom fighter, one of each. Manohar Malgoankar […]

100 years of Krishen Khanna

When I first met Krishen Khanna in early 2001, the clean-shaven gentleman in a sharp waistcoat hardly looked like an artist. I was used to most in the community outfitted in kurta-jholas and, in the case of Khanna’s contemporary M.F. Husain, walking barefoot, with his beard and unruly white hair in tousled glory. In contrast, Khanna was […]

Meditations, an art exhibition in Thiruvananthapuram, showcases colourful fragments of dissimilar visions

Dr Boban Ramesan at Meditations, Chapter One | Photo Credit: Nainu Oommen Chapter one of Meditations, an art exhibition by Dr Boban Ramesan, currently on at Vylopilly Samskrithi Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram, presents a glimpse into what truly affects the artist — consciously and subconsciously. From depictions of frames inspired by legendary filmmakers Satyajit Ray and […]