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Nightmare Gallery: 11 Horror Paintings You Need To Know About This Halloween.

Do You Know?, Featured / October 26, 2023

It’s spooky season, and we at Abir Pothi are nothing if not avid followers of festive moods. Following are 11 horrifically mesmerizing and beautifully spine-chilling paintings to give you the perfect feel this Halloween. 1. Judith Slaying Holofernes Known as one of the most iconic works of Artemesia Gentileschi, “Judith Slaying Holofernes” is a grotesque […]

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Magdalena Abakanowicz: Weaving the Fibres of Existential Agony

Columns / October 26, 2023

Not everyone can harness the power of shapes and geometry the way Magdalena Abakanowicz has. A trailblazer in fibre-based sculpting, she was born in 1930 in a Polish aristocracy. Her teenage years were spent amidst the Nazi occupation. The horrors of the war scarred her, which can be felt in most of her installations. She

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Why to Care about Y2K: Nostalgia, Optimism and Existential Anxiety

Columns, Featured / October 26, 2023

Human society lives for its fashion trends- the explosive, colourful choices that have come to mark specific periods in time also often represent the socio-economic atmosphere of the era they originated in. While a major criticism of trends is that they are short-lived, in recent decades, a cyclical pattern has been noticed in popular fashion

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Venice Biennale Controversy: Israel Proceeds with Pavilion, While Palestinian Exhibition Faces Rejection

News / October 26, 2023

As conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, the world-famous Venice Biennial is embroiled in a geopolitical conflict. Israel has decided to go ahead with a planned pavilion for the 2024 biennial games, despite ongoing hostilities. In contrast, the organisers of an exhibition of Palestinian artists associated with the 2022 biennial faced obstacles, rejecting them for

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Exploring India’s Visual Identity: Saloni Doshi’s Photographic Odyssey

Exhibitions / October 26, 2023

Saloni Doshi’s Exhibition of Art is thought- provoking mediation on visual currents which define India’s historical past and current identity in a world where images catch hold of our sensibility. Through an audacious curation deep in history yet securely in the present, Saloni’s collection defies our basic right to contemplate the world. Saloni asks us through the

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The Language of Art: An Alexandra Grant Vision

Columns / October 26, 2023

Keanu Reeves’ girlfriend Alexandra Grant may be famous in the entertainment industry due to the fame of her boyfriend. However, in the art circles, she is a well-known face and needs no introduction. She is a visual artist dabbling in mixed media, paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, clothing, and more. She has been teaching since 2009

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Domestic Worker Turned Artist: Sathyabhama K’s Inspirational Journey from Pandemic Struggles to Artistic Triumph

News / October 26, 2023

Introduction Sathyabhama K was a daily wage worker who unfortunately fell victim to the pandemic that ravaged the world in 2021. At 65 Sathyabhama is now famous as an artist having a solo show just organised at the main Thrissur Lalithakala Academy gallery. Her story is inspiring for those who look for various approaches of overcoming crises

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Sachida Nagdev: The Artist Who Bridged Time and Technique

On This Day / October 25, 2023

Sachida Nagdev was born on his day October 25, 1939. At the young age of nine, he sought out freehand guidance from neighbourhood signboard painters, which marked the beginning of his career as a painter. His love of the arts was sparked by this early experience, and he spent the rest of his life developing

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The Art of RK Laxman in 10 Pictures

Photo Gallery / October 25, 2023

Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist RK Laxman was a renowned artist. When Laxman was a student at Maharaja College in Mysore, he started drawing stories written by his older brother, R. K. Narayan, for The Hindu. This was the beginning of his voyage into the worlds of art and satire. In the beginning, he wrote

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11 Facts about Faith Ringgold that you never knew

Columns, Featured / October 25, 2023

Say it with us, “Black Rights ARE Human Rights”. “Women’s Rights ARE Human Rights”. An artist extraordinaire, Faith Ringgold has dedicated her life to realizing these slogans and ensuring mainstream acknowledgement of Black women artists. Born on October 8, 1930, she is a Jane of all trades. She dabbles in paintings, quilting, performance art, and

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