What the Anita Dube controversy reveals about the Indian art world

[ad_1] Last week, poet Aamir Aziz accused Anita Dube, one of India’s leading contemporary artists, of using his words without permission in four artworks exhibited at Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi. The phrase in question, Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega (Everything will be remembered), became a rallying cry during the 2019-2020 protests against the Citizenship […]

Artist Bindhi Rajagopal’s works showcase the ecological importance of mangroves

[ad_1] One of Bindhi Rajagopal’s works on show at the Durbar Hall Art Gallery. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Shades of mossy green, dominate artist Bindhi Rajagopal’s latest show, The Grounded Guardians: A Meditation on Mangrove Roots, on at the Durbar Hall Art Gallery. The latest show is an ode to mangroves which form a […]

Square roots: Lambadi artisans stitch the ordinary into the extraordinary

[ad_1] At Home in Sittilingi is an exhibition of embroidered textile art created by 10 women artisans from the Lambadi community. The works are stitched on organic cotton and draw from memory and immediate surroundings — trees that surround them, stories heard from elders, birds marking seasonal change, millets grown in their fields, and the […]

Special issue | Reimagining museums 2025

[ad_1] In Kolkata, a 71-year-old Muslim man’s “hoarding” of everyday objects — and his museum packed into travelling trunks — has won a coveted spot at the V&A Museum in London. In Kerala, a museum of love is slowly attracting visitors, while a museum of photography is spreading awareness and encouraging local talent. And across […]

How an erstwhile princess is on a mission to revive Kishangarh miniatures

[ad_1] Almond-shaped eyes, aquiline features, elongated faces with defined chins and noses, earthy tones, panoramic landscapes and stylised clouds — these are some of the things that set apart Kishangarh paintings from the other miniature traditions of India. Drenched in bhakti and sringara rasas, these miniatures originated somewhere around the 17th Century in Kishangarh in […]

The weight of water: Srisailam Dam’s tale at Berlinale and MOMA

[ad_1] Beneath the Placid Lake at the Berlinale | Photo Credit: Leo Hugendubel When artist Kush Badhwar was living in Hyderabad in the early 2010s, his building’s caretaker suggested he might be interested in looking at the personal archive of a neighbour who had passed away. Turned out, it belonged to Radha Krishna Sarma, a […]

Artist Romicon Revola’s Vortex calls for a double take

[ad_1] Galleria Triphe in Rome, is currently hosting the works of Romicon Revola. In her first solo show in Rome, Vortex, the artist from Bengaluru is exhibiting sculptures, lenticular installations and augmented reality artwork. Over the years, Romicon has made a name for herself as a visual artist, with works that highlight man’s equation with […]

Artist Thakare Naik with locomotor disability paints a world of his own

[ad_1] Thakare Naik with his works | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement There are numerous examples of differently-abled people who have overcome limitations to make a mark in their chosen field. Their struggles persist but they continue to pursue their passion. Here is one such inspiring artist, Thakare Naik, from the Lambada tribe, who found strength […]

Check out Baccarat’s first Indian store in Delhi

[ad_1] At The Chanakya, an upscale shopping mall in Delhi’s Chanakyapuri, a vibrant red storefront — associated with 260-year-old French luxury crystal brand Baccarat — catches your attention even before you head to its flagship boutique on the second floor. As you move closer, the Solstice chandelier greets you. Composed of hollow branches in blown […]

Artist Sovan Kumar’s works on show at Kochi use trucks as a symbol to explores political and personal struggles

[ad_1] Sovan Kumar’s painting May First at Marina Beach | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The truck is pink this time, Fluorescent, absurd, A joke rolling through the streets, On its back, Men made of stone, Green and cold, Push against the air, Their muscles taut, frozen in the eternal effort To move what will not […]