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In India, we have grown up listening to the voices on the streets. It’s often the bells of the ice cream stall, the cries of sabzi wale or a metal rod hitting a steel wok to indicate that popcorn is here. On winter day breaks, among all those voices there was also one of a […]
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In one of the most talked-about installations at the sixth Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Delhi-based artist Niroj Satpathy transforms the overlooked detritus of urban life into a meditation on memory, labour, and the invisible rhythms of a city at night. Titled Dhalan, the installation at S.M.S. Hall in Mattancherry is constructed entirely from materials sourced at Delhi’s landfill
Waste Becomes Art: ‘Dhalan’ by Niroj Satpathy at Kochi Biennale Read More »
In the vibrant world of Indian architecture, few voices resonate as intuitively and empathetically as Sneha Ostawal’s. As Principal Architect and Founder of Source Architecture—a Bangalore-based studio celebrated for its context-led designs across architecture, interiors, and experiential environments—Sneha has spent over 15 years redefining how spaces can truly inhabit lives. A graduate of RV College
Sneha Ostawal on Experiential Architecture and the Human Touch Read More »
Opening on 27 March 2026, Akanksha Patil’s Narratives in Transit is a deeply political solo exhibition curated by veteran critic-curator Georgina Maddox, and hosted at Gallery Art Positive, Lado Sarai, New Delhi. The Exhibition Narratives in Transit takes as its subject one of the most pressing yet under-examined crises of contemporary India — the forced displacement of rural and
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RAJAN ONE, an exhibition of artist CK Rajan’s early works, is the first half of a two-part exhibition at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, providing a clear but subtle look into the artist’s practice. The exhibition, which features works created after 1990, highlights an artist who has consistently pushed against spectacle, developing a modestly scaled, conceptually
C.K. Rajan: Slow Fuse and the Subtle Art of Resistance Read More »
Artist Manjot Kaur’s paintings, the lush, liminal world interprets the Indian miniature tradition and seeks novel ways to present it, producing a new lexicon and visual delight. As we know, painting is the art of seeing, and it enlarges and broadens the viewer’s world when engaged with. This is achieved in Kaur’s painting through translating
Manjot Kaur: Interspecies Agency and the Rewriting of Myth Read More »
The Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) has confirmed that a sexual harassment complaint filed against artist and co-founder Bose Krishnamachari was among the reasons for his resignation from the post of President of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) and from the Board of Trustees of KBF in January 2026. Krishnamachari helped found the Biennale in 2012 and
Portraits in Time: Power, Presence, and Identity Across Centuries, curated by Sonali Batra, showcases 50 works from many years and places at LTC, Bikaner House in New Delhi from 8th to 15th April 2026. About the Exhibition This show brings old and new portraits together. It traces how faces in art show power, feelings, and
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At Vadehra Art Gallery, an ongoing exhibition, Circle of Stories by Ranbir Kaleka, unfolds as a quiet yet deeply immersive experience that asks viewers to slow down and reconsider how stories are told. Spread across six multimedia installations created between 2007 and 2025, the exhibition resists the familiar idea of narrative as something with a
Ranbir Kaleka’s Circular Stories: Time, Memory and the Moving Image Read More »
Ibrahim Mahama, the world-renowned Ghanaian contemporary artist ranked No. 1 on ArtReview‘s 2025 Power 100 list and the first African artist ever to hold that distinction was allegedly assaulted by Ghana police officers in Tamale on Saturday, March 21, 2026. The incident has triggered a wave of outrage from Ghana’s art community and renewed urgent calls
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