Books, Art & Design

The Established • 17th December 2024

What Makes Indian Art Festivals Like Serendipity So Special? | The Established

A new wave of young, bold artists is reshaping India’s art scene with new perspectives and experimental mediums. And the Serendipity Arts Festival is providing the platform

The Nod Magazine • 4th December 2024

Viraj Khanna is becoming kind of a big deal in the art world

Featuring Starbucks coffee and cross-body bags, the-29-year-old’s photo dump-inspired art about ‘young people doing the things young people do’ is taking over Miami

The Hindu • 29th August 2024

Samyukta Madhu’s ‘Reincarnations’ | Culture, colourism and CGI

Digital artist Samyukta Madhu’s newest series, Reincarnations, offers fresh perspectives on South Asian beauty, ancient cultures and hypothetical futures

The Hindu • 28th June 2024

Portrait of an artist in the rains | Indian artists on monsoon inspirations

Rabindra Sangeet and Bollywood songs to train rides and art. Six creators share monsoon-drenched memories and inspirations

The Hindu • 14th June 2024

Patriarchy in stainless steel | Sonal Ambani at the 2024 Venice Biennale

A bull riddled with crimson arrows brings sculptor Sonal Ambani’s statement on the gender pay gap to the Venice Biennale

The Hindu • 10th May 2024

Cover Story: Building with Indian craftsmen

Local architecture, hugely influenced by the West, is now finding its way back to its roots — with jaalis, lime plastering, stone and ironwork popping up on large, prestigious projects

The Hindu • 5th April 2024

Cover Story: What India’s Jewish buildings have to say

Jewish-origin architecture in the country appears to advocate a community-led way of life. What’s unique is that the restoration and adaptive reuse of synagogues, hospitals and houses is often funded by people of other faiths

Vogue India • 14th March 2024

What does it mean to be young in India today? A new art research project attempts to find out

In Prarthna Singh and Snigdha Poonam’s new art research project, 2024: Notes from a Generation, the youth of India speak through dynamic portraits and audio recordings

The Hindu • 8th March 2024

Art Dubai: Taming the digital

One of the takeaways from the third edition of Art Dubai Digital is that AI is not evil. It is the intention behind it that matters

The Hindu • 9th February 2024

Thukral & Tagra’s ‘Sustaina India’ trains the spotlight on climate change

Can art do more than build awareness around climate change? This Delhi exhibition would like to find out

The Hindu • 22nd December 2023

‘Bhanu Athaiya made India cool 60 years ago’

At a time when the conversation in the country is all about design, craft, textile and art, Prinseps’ new exhibition in Goa spotlights a creator who had nailed the brief decades ago

Moneycontrol • 17th December 2023

Year Ender 2023: 24 best Indian books of the year, fiction and non-fiction

Year Ender 2023: 24 books of fiction and non-fiction that evoke contemporary India, from Siddhartha Mukherjee's Song of the Cell to Deepti Kapoor's Age of Vice.

Moneycontrol • 10th December 2023

Book review | ‘MCU - The Reign of Marvel Studios’ review: The thrilling big business of superheroes

Through years of exhaustive research, three American pop culture journalists — Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales and Gavin Edwards — have produced what might be the definitive inside story on Marvel Studios.

Vogue India • 1st December 2023

A new exhibit at the NMACC brings the greats of the American Pop Art era to India for the first time

Through works by renowned artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Elaine Sturtevant and others, POP: FAME, LOVE AND POWER unfolds as a concise, coherent show, distilling a major art movement into 12 artists

The Hindu • 20th October 2023

Cover Story: Writers’ retreats | Finding their muse, from Goa to Himachal

Retreats for writers are popular in India — with big-name mentors, masterclasses on the beach, and yoga and heritage walks to spur the imagination. But is there value beyond networking and bragging rights?

The Established • 17th October 2023

How textile trails across India hold potential to boost tourism if done right

The growing popularity of textile tourism in the country can only be sustained if it goes beyond merely displaying the handiwork of these indigenous cultures

Moneycontrol • 8th October 2023

Jon Fosse and the tricky slope of relevance for the Nobel Prize

How do you react when an author you’ve literally never heard of before wins the most prestigious award in the world — with chagrin or curiosity?

The Hindu • 17th August 2023

Inside Toiletpaper’s largest show, ‘Run As Slow As You Can’, in Mumbai

The cult art & photography magazine’s founders Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari’s investigate “our hyper consumption of imagery”

Moneycontrol • 2nd August 2023

Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room at the NMACC: An escape into the unknown

As one of the Japanese contemporary artist’s Infinity Mirror Rooms debuts in India, here’s a look at what makes them so popular around the world

The Hindu Sunday Magazine • 21st July 2023

Where Shanti Dave belongs

India’s original calligraphic abstractionist and co-founder of the Baroda Group, Shanti Dave, gets his first-ever retrospective, with DAG showcasing his work from 1950 to 2014

Moneycontrol • 16th July 2023

Milan Kundera—author, dissident, philosopher, lover

Best known for his 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera's impact and influence on the form of a novel, the place of humour and intellectual labour in our lives is more relevant now than ever before. A tribute

The Established • 12th July 2023

How relevant would street art be minus the power of social media?

In the age of the Internet, a viral moment for a work of street art is all it takes for it to get noticed. But how is art, today, more than just its potential to go viral?

Moneycontrol • 2nd July 2023

The Harry Potter universe at 26: How one woman spawned an unlikely empire

In June 1997, JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was released. No one foresaw the worldwide brand it was about to become

1 Finance Magazine • 20th June 2023

Is Art a Good Investment? A Guide for Art Enthusiasts | 1Finance

What kind of returns can you expect when you buy a piece of art?