Exclusive

Publication

Byline

Location

An exhibition creates a house of possibilities in Ahmedabad

New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- The exhibition, I Dwell in Possibility, unfurls like an accordion book, with each work building up momentum for the next one. Bengaluru-based Avinash Veeraraghavan creates dream-... Read More


Gallery Sumukha: 30 years of framing Bengaluru's art landscape

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- The last two years have seen several art galleries-be it Nature Morte and Art Alive in Delhi or Sakshi Gallery and Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai-celebrate milestone years. The... Read More


How 'A Moment in the Monumental' captures turns and changes in Indian art

New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- Veer Munshi's Maeras (legacy) offers a cartography of his lived experience. The relief painting on MDF sheets maps out his subconscious, invoking landmarks and motifs from his ho... Read More


Why tiffin censorship threatens diversity in school classrooms

New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- Tiffin censorship is slowly spreading through the country, turning the humble lunch box into contested ground. Parent groups petition schools to prohibit certain items, especially... Read More


Beyond nostalgia: Examining memory and erasure in the works of Merci Maku and Rahul Buski

New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- The idea of memory as not just a vehicle for nostalgia but as something discomforting that jolts you out of the present underlines two ongoing exhibitions, Phantasms at Anant Ar... Read More


How the changing climate is testing Indian craftspersons

New Delhi, Sept. 4 -- The water is no longer the same in Ajrakhpur, rues Khalid Amin Khatri. It's a lament you'd hear anywhere in the country due to dropping groundwater levels and rising salinity, bu... Read More


How climate change is reshaping Assam's craft and textile landscape

New Delhi, Sept. 4 -- Aditya Saikia, an award-winning mukha shilpakar, or mask maker, laments how unpredictable the weather is. "Kabhi bhi tez dhoop ho jaati hai, aur kabhi bhi tez baarish. (It gets v... Read More


Why you should be a lifelong student of social science

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- "Oh! You are an arts student!" Neighbours and relatives would wrinkle their noses as if the very idea of humanities threw up a stink. At a time when my cousins were charting out ... Read More


Seamus Murphy's Poetic Realism: capturing images of joy and resilience From Kolkata to Kabul

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- At Museo Camera, Gurugram, you come across an image of a lean boy, sporting chappals, captured in the act of having kicked a ball. The ball is nowhere to be seen, but his stance ... Read More


A photo project explores how the Partition reshaped families in Punjab's villages along the border

New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- On photographer Taha Ahmad's website, three-four geopolitical maps of the Indian subcontinent appear. They feature scribbles by schoolchildren of Preet Nagar, a village in Punjab... Read More