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Coasting the Topography of South Asian Futurisms: Envisioning the future of South Asia

Tsuktiben Jamir A digital exhibition titled ‘Coasting the Topography of South Asian Futurisms’ is currently live on Hyperallergic, curated by Sadaf Padder. This is an effort to bring together contemporary artists, activists and thinkers in an attempt to explore the future of South Asia through a collection of putative and hypothetical pieces of fiction, art […]

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Repetition as a Way of Finding God: The Modernist Collages of Panchal Mansaram

Digvijay Nikam ‘Prolific’ is the word that describes the artistic career of the Indo-Canadian artist Panchal Mansaram, who worked every single day over his decades-long career leading to a huge body of work. Born in India in 1934, Mansaram grew up in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, completed his graduation from the Sir J.J. School of Arts

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Using Time as Material: The genre-bending durational performances of Nikhil Chopra

Digvijay Nikam  What kind of relationship does the work of art bear with the artist’s body? Is the latter only an agent to aesthetic creation where the locus of any transformation is the art work and not the body? The contemporary Indian artist Nikhil Chopra has tried to bridge this chasm by foregrounding the body

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Loud Silence: Shakuntala Kulkarni’s visual stories

Tsuktiben Jamir More than often, artists are influenced, or rather inspired by the environment around them, their experiences, their understandings, their connections with people and their culture. They condense all of these encounters into their artistic expressions. The artist, the subject as well as the perspectives of perception are all reflected in art. This can

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Art from the ancient Indian caves

Deepshikha Cave paintings are oldest form of wall art or simply ‘art’ known to humankind made by the early men with crude tools and natural colours to depict their daily life. Many renowned cave art are found all over the world such as – Lascaux – France, Altamira – Spain, Argentina, Indonesia, Coliboaia – Romania,

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