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Everybody knows that Vincent van Gogh loved the colour yellow. But why? Well, the story begins 19,000 years ago… Yellow is one of the oldest colours in art. For most of history it came from yellow ochre, a naturally occurring and readily available clay-like substance. These cave paintings from 17,000 B.C. in Lascaux, France, include […]
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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
MoMA apologizes to artist after ejection from ‘Black Power Naps’ installation Read More »
Tsuktiben Jamir Ratheesh T is a contemporary Indian artist born in 1980 at Kilimanoor and lives in Trivandrum, Kerala. He majorly concerns himself with painting and his works draw inspiration from the people and scenery of his native state, and depict existing landscapes that are rife with story potential. He is hosting his recent show
Dark Terrain: A dive into Ratheesh T’s rich world Read More »
Tsuktiben Jamir A digital exhibition titled ‘Coasting the Topography of South Asian Futurisms’ is currently live on Hyperallergic, curated by Sadaf Padder. This is an effort to bring together contemporary artists, activists and thinkers in an attempt to explore the future of South Asia through a collection of putative and hypothetical pieces of fiction, art
Coasting the Topography of South Asian Futurisms: Envisioning the future of South Asia Read More »
Digvijay Nikam ‘Prolific’ is the word that describes the artistic career of the Indo-Canadian artist Panchal Mansaram, who worked every single day over his decades-long career leading to a huge body of work. Born in India in 1934, Mansaram grew up in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, completed his graduation from the Sir J.J. School of Arts
Repetition as a Way of Finding God: The Modernist Collages of Panchal Mansaram Read More »
Rajesh Kumar Contemporary artist Vivan Sundaram passes away aged 79 today at 9:20 am. He breathed his last at a hospital in Delhi, where he had been sent after suffering a brain haemorrhage earlier this month. Born in Shimla on 1943, he attended Then Doon School, the Faculty of Fine Arts at Maharaja Sayajirao University
Indian contemporary artist Vivan Sundaram passes away at 79 Read More »
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
Gucci collaborates with bored ape Yacht club company yuga labs Read More »
Tsuktiben Jamir Ai Weiwei is a well-known Chinese artist and activist born in Beijing on August 28, 1957. He made a name for himself as an artist with his large-scale conceptual art, capital realism, and installation artworks highlighting social involvement and human rights concerns. Ai is known for his unapologetic advocacy for human rights and
Ai Weiwei’s Rebellious Movement: The Middle Finger Read More »
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
Historian says Eiffel Tower may have inspired Van Gogh’s Starry Night Read More »
Digvijay Nikam What kind of relationship does the work of art bear with the artist’s body? Is the latter only an agent to aesthetic creation where the locus of any transformation is the art work and not the body? The contemporary Indian artist Nikhil Chopra has tried to bridge this chasm by foregrounding the body
Using Time as Material: The genre-bending durational performances of Nikhil Chopra Read More »