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Krispin JosephPX

Krispin Joseph PX, a poet and journalist, completed an MFA in art history and visual studies at the University of Hyderabad.

Jogen Chowdhury: Memoirs of an Indian Dream and Alchemy of Expression

Artist Profile /

Jogen Chowdhury is an eminent Indian artist considered one of the most important and seminal figures in the history of postcolonial Indian Art. Jogen knows his painting bonded to Partition, the landscape, folk tales, and figurative and political injustice-motivated compositions. He was born and brought up in an ambience of Partition, exist it his post-Partition […]

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And the Art Thieves’ Award for Most Appealing Work Goes to ‘Ghent Altarpiece’

Do You Know?, Featured /

We know how treasures are robbed during wartime. War gives the winning team the ultimate freedom to do anything against the lost. Usually, most winners (mis)use this freedom at most and commit as many crimes against the lost, including looting precious materials, gold and other valuable things and setting fire to their heritage and history.

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We Should Know About the Exercise of Power Hides in Rembrandt Painting

Columns, Do You Know?, Featured /

Do you think the visual representation of power hides in paintings or Artworks? Power is an inevitable element of human culture; as Foucault claims, ”individuals are the product of power”. A painting, ‘The night watch’, was completed in 1642 by the Dutch golden age master Rembrandt (1606- 1669), evidently narrates the visual representation of power

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Glen Martin Taylor: (Un)Broken Ceramics meets Japanese Philosophy

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Kintsugi is a Japanese way of repairing wounds in ceramics or pottery. As a philosophy, Japanese belief brings back beauty from the broken; experts use lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver or platinum to do this. The Kintsugi technique aims to bring damaged things back to life and use; it’s the art of

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Zarina: The Sad Song of Partition, Painted World of Displacement

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Zarina, a beloved Artist who crafted poetical ‘Art’ in different mediums, was honoured and remembered last day worldwide. Zarina Hashmi was an Indian-American artist celebrated for her works encircled with printmaking, drawings, lithography and sculpture, more as an associate of the Minimalist movement and the narration of abstract and geometric patterns and forms.  Zarina was

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Art and Capitalism: Why Luxurious Hotel Matters in Indian Art?

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Why do Luxurious Hotels matter in Art? Why is Art connected with Luxurious things, and are they any ordinary people who participate in Art events? We should identify the absence of ordinary people in the Art events, which may be held in five-star hotels or other luxurious spaces. The ‘Art event’ vocabulary is standard and

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