Design surrounds us in everything we use and see, from the chair you sit on to the app you scroll through. It is the silent language that shapes how we interact with the world. Fundamentally, design is a thoughtful process of solving problems through form, function, and emotion. It creates connections between aesthetic intention and practical usefulness. […]
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Charles Correa (1930–2015), one of the most important and celebrated architects of India, practiced architecture and urban planning for over five decades. Born in Secunderabad, he studied at the University of Michigan and MIT, blending Modernist principles with local climates, materials, and social needs. His work addressed India’s post-independence challenges, prioritizing affordable housing, energy efficiency,
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Between 1962 and 1965, the Second Vatican Council ushered in liturgical reforms emphasizing participation and clarity, freeing Italian architects from rigid typologies to create bold, modernist sacred spaces. Postwar Italy’s economic boom, urban sprawl, and secular shift met Vatican II’s call for renewal, birthing experimental churches that anchored new communities. Marta Minuzzo’s “Templi Moderni. Costruire
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Dr. Amin Jaffer, an internationally celebrated curator with a career spanning institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Al Thani Collection, and major biennials, brings a deeply transnational perspective to his role as curator of the India Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. His practice has consistently explored how objects, materials, and histories travel
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Gallerie Splash will present Grammar of Seeing, a major retrospective of Ratan Parimoo’s abstract phase, curated by Satyajit Dave, at Bikaner House’s Centre for Contemporary Art in New Delhi from June 12 to June 16, 2026. The show brings together paintings, prints, drawings, collages, works on paper, and archival material to trace Parimoo’s artistic evolution and
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Ashiesh Shah Explores Material Transformation – Mumbai-based designer, architect, and artist Ashiesh Shah will present a new solo exhibition at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, opening on June 11. Known for his multidisciplinary practice that bridges architecture, design, and art, Shah’s latest body of work marks a significant evolution in his creative trajectory. Rooted in a
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Fields of Chamba, presented by Bridge Bharat, is an unfolding of land, labour, and the tactile intelligence of making. On view until May 2, the show repositions the Chamba Rumal as a living, thinking surface that holds memory, rhythm, and care. At its core, the exhibition draws from the ecological and cultural landscape of Chamba,
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Lorraine THIRIA is a contemporary french artist, whose practice moves fluidly between painting, photography, writing, and material research. Her Art is anchored in a singular visual world shaped by walls, matter, memory, and time. Trained in mural art and visual arts, and having arrived at photography through painting, she treats surfaces as living skins that
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Art Alive Gallery will present Paresh Maity‘s monumental brass sculpture Equilibrium at Personal Structures: Confluences, a major contemporary art exhibition running alongside La Biennale di Venezia from 9 May to 22 November 2026 in Venice. The European Cultural Centre Italy organises Personal Structures as a biennial event, and this 8th edition will occupy Palazzo Bembo,
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At the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai, Subodh Gupta’s A Fistful of Sky is one of the artist’s most expansive exhibitions in India in recent years. Curated by Clare Lilley and on view from 3 April to 17 May 2026, the four-floor presentation brings together new commissions, key works from across Gupta’s career, and immersive
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