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Make Me a Summary of the World: Rina Banerjee’s carnivalesque sculpture installations

Artist Profile, Featured /

Digvijay Nikam Migration – forced and otherwise – of humans and of objects, entangled with the questions of ethnicity and race, is the defining feature of the modern globalized world. “How should art respond to it?” is the question that the diasporic artist Rina Banerjee tries to probe through her work. Born in 1963 in […]

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Shades of Folk Art: Haku Shah combines tradition and modernity 

On This Day /

Manjeera March 21, ON THIS DAY Haku Shah revitalized folk art in India, recognizing its importance to the country’s cultural inheritance. His paintings, which were a product of his careful observation and study of different types of folk and tribal art, convey a rooted sense of history to the viewer. At first glance, Haku Shah’s

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From Cybernetics to GANs: Tracing the history of AI-generated art

Artificial Intelligence, Columns /

Saptarshi Ghosh AI-generated art is part of the larger realm of generative art. Generative art refers to art created autonomously by systems like computer programs or machines. In this piece, we will be taking a short trip through time, exploring the critical moments in the development of the fascinating world of machine-generated art. Origins of

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Interested in people who haven’t had as much of a chance: Mary Ellen Mark from the Perimeter

On This Day /

Iftikar Ahmed March 20, ON THIS DAY Photographing people from the margin is what Mary Ellen Mark is known for.  From portraits to reportage, from the US to Mexico to India, Mary Ellen Mark’s photography spans a wide and inclusive spectrum that explores themes of social belonging, otherness, and various life trajectories. The work of

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Painting with Machines: An Introduction to Machine Learning Art

Artificial Intelligence, Columns /

Saptarshi Ghosh Machine learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), which allows computers to learn from experience rather than being programmed. It has contributed to the development of a loosely-defined field of arts wherein artists use various AI algorithms to magically conjure up images hitherto unconceived of and unimagined. DALL.E 2, Stable Diffusion,

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‘Inclusion and Diversity’: Times of India’s initiative to celebrate the diverse Indian art

News /

Tsuktiben Jamir The Times of India is once again putting together the ‘Art of India’ exhibition curated by Dr Tarana Khubchandani, Director of Gallery Art and Soul, and mentored by renowned artist Brinda Miller. This is the second edition and includes more than 150 works of art by 100 artists from all over India. This

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Investigation links Indian antiquities in the Met to art trafficker Subhash Kapoor

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A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends

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