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
Books, Art & Design
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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.
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.
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
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?
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
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?
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”
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
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
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
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?
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
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?
I live and breathe art and heritage, says Sangita Jindal
The JSW Foundation chairperson on her cultural restoration efforts, including the David Sassoon Library and Reading Room at Kala Ghoda, Mumbai
Geopolitics in a rug | Pavitra Rajaram’s carpet collection for Jaipur Rugs
Designer Pavitra Rajaram’s collection for Jaipur Rugs is taking stories of history, syncretism and tradition to the Salone del Mobile
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