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Saptarshi Ghosh From augmented reality (AR) to 3D scans of urban environments – Mira Felicia Malhotra, Gaurav Ogale and Varun Desai are three contemporary Indian artists whose practices harness latest developments in technology to critically reflect on contemporary concerns. They showed at the Digital Residency Hub at India Art Fair 2023, as part of the […]
Manjeera 23rd March, ON THIS DAY Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought. It is possible to invent a technique or a manner independently, but one cannot invent the whole complexity of a state of mind. –Juan
On the threshold of abstraction: Juan Gris’s meticulous Cubist paintings 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
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Saptarshi Ghosh Robbie Barrat Twenty-two years old Robbie Barrat hardly comes across as an artist. For someone who can almost always be seen dabbling with artificial intelligence (AI), you might mistake him for a computer programmer. Yet, he is one of the youngest artists to have taken the machine learning (ML) art scene by storm.
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Manjeera 22 MARCH, ON THIS DAY Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environment’. -Yayoi Kusama Yayoi Kusama is a world-renowned contemporary Japanese
Princess of Polka dots: Exploring the infinity in Yayoi Kusama’s art Read More »
Tsuktiben Jamir Something about Legos is so soothing and enjoyable; something about those little plastic bricks opens the door for our imagination to run wild and allows us to create anything that our imaginations can conjure up. We can say the same for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who has taken the hobby a step further
Legos and Artmaking: Ai Weiwei’s recreation Claude Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’ 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
Tsuktiben Jamir One of India’s most significant art galleries Nature Morte based in Delhi, is primarily known for showcasing and promoting contemporary works by mostly South Asian artists. They are currently hosting ‘Heed the Portent’, a solo exhibition by Mona Rai. Having started on the 15th of March 2023, the show is set to be
Heed the Portent: Exhibition by Mona Rai at Nature Morte Read More »
Tsuktiben Jamir Art does not belong only in museums and exhibitions. The Bangalore International Airport has installed a piece by L N Tallur called ‘V+Mana.’ If you are wondering what the title of the piece means, we will save you the trouble because we reached out to the artist himself, L N Tallur, and he
L N Tallur’s V+Mana: Art at the Airport Read More »
Digvijay Nikam Migration – forced and otherwise – of humans and of objects, entangled with the questions of ethnicity and race, is the defining feature of the modern globalized world. “How should art respond to it?” is the question that the diasporic artist Rina Banerjee tries to probe through her work. Born in 1963 in
Make Me a Summary of the World: Rina Banerjee’s carnivalesque sculpture installations Read More »