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For her latest show, artist Anjolie Ela Menon taps into her memory bank

New Delhi, April 12 -- Revisitations feels like a flip book. As you move from painting to painting at the exhibition at Delhi's Shridharani Gallery, the passage of time is palpable through the changes... Read More


Why adults are getting in line to watch kids' animation?

New Delhi, April 10 -- A mischievous assassin-a giant white shark named Diane-ripped through the air, carried on the wings of seagulls. She had every intention of plonking her weight down on the car o... Read More


Why adults are getting in line to watch kids' animation

New Delhi, April 10 -- A mischievous assassin-a giant white shark named Diane-ripped through the air, carried on the wings of seagulls. She had every intention of plonking her weight down on the car o... Read More


Panjeri Artists' Union: A collective that speaks in one voice

New Delhi, April 5 -- In January this year, the Coir Godown at the Aspinwall House, Kochi, turned into a site of performative memory as two artists-Samapti Mondal and Bhaskar Hazarika-walked around wi... Read More


Goutam Ghosh and Sujata Bajaj: Two unique languages of abstraction in art

New Delhi, March 26 -- The exhibition space at Project 88, Colaba, Mumbai, resembles a transit area right now. Sculptures are propped up against wooden crates while paintings featuring hieroglyph-like... Read More


How 'Wicked: The Musical' is defying gravity and patriarchy

New Delhi, March 23 -- I first heard the song Defying Gravity a few years ago. Actor Idina Menzel's raw intensity made this a powerfully rousing piece about inner transformation and defiance of societ... Read More


Stepping inside artist Nalini Malani's 'thought chamber' at the upcoming Venice Biennale 2026

New Delhi, March 20 -- Starting 9 May, the heritage site of Magazzini del Sale, a 15th century salt warehouse in Venice, will transform into a 'thought chamber', with animated images, text, thought bu... Read More


Making history tangible to children through curated walks

New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- In December last year I was reading a book on stepwells of India, around the same time I had a group of rambunctious teens in the house. To save myself from hearing K-Pop Demon H... Read More


'Disobedient Objects': A show spotlights the labour that goes into making clothes

New Delhi, Feb. 20 -- In the sun-kissed space of STIR Art Gallery in New Delhi, a large muslin scroll with a kurta sewn into it hangs from the ceiling. Looming large in the middle of the arts space, t... Read More


'Typecasting: Photographing the People of India': An exhibition critically examines the ethnographic image

New Delhi, Feb. 12 -- The link between the rise of photography and anthropological studies in the 1850s is inextricable particularly in India. The camera became a means to explore, investigate and cla... Read More