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Young Santiniketan: Learning and unlearning in a pristine mecca of arts and culture

Young India /

One of the most prestigious universities of India, Viswa Bharati University better known as Santiniketan, was founded by Rabindranath Tagore in 1921. It has produced talented artists who have gone on to redefine as well as pioneer varied art practices. The village itself has become synonymous with arts practice and several artists and intellectuals have […]

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Exploring how art gives depth to design: Room For More Art with Sanjana Samel and Sachin Ambekar

Room For More Art /

Abir Pothi presents Room For More Art — a series of features on interior designers across geographic boundaries, discussing with them the nuances of their profession, their methods of sourcing and projecting art into their work, the challenges they face, and a whole lot more perspective. Sachin Ambekar and Sanjana Samel: \’Art adds a narrative

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No Freudian slip: The figurative master portraitist of the 20th-century

On This Day /

July 20, On This Day A master of figurative art, British painter and draughtsman Lucian Freud was known for his work in portraiture and the nude — and as the grandson of famed Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Sometimes called a realist, Lucian painted in a highly individual style, which in his later years was characterized

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\’James Bond\’ has art to display, and museums may have started tracking you

News /

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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Abstracts, layers, stone and spectres — these are the themes with our Artists Of The Week

Artists of the Week /

Ankita Daulatabadkar: Capturing a haunting muse Each incident we experience creates a form that leaves an impression on us, believes artist Ankita Daulatabadkar, and her art is one such manifestation that explores human behaviour and its effects. Using etching, aquatint, collography, lithography, Ankita has depicted some esoteric, symbolic and somewhat haunting themes in her artworks.

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Comparing cultural disparities, FIRST TAKE 2019 winner probes ethics and identity through art in NYC

Uncategorized /

Abir FIRST TAKE 2019 winner Abhishek Tuiwala has gone places. Today, he is pursuing an MFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institution, Brooklyn. He believes the essence of humanity is all about culture, ethics and identity and this philosophy translates into his research. He says his research study\’s primary objective is to investigate the effect of

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Rare Amrita Sher-Gil becomes second most expensive artwork by Indian artist in world

News /

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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Art, design are integrated, as the psyche behind both is the same: Kanika Agarwal Mahadevwala in Room For More Art

Room For More Art /

Abir Pothi presents Room For More Art — a series of features on interior designers across geographic boundaries, discussing with them the nuances of their profession, their methods of sourcing and projecting art into their work, the challenges they face, and a whole lot more perspective. Kanika Agarwal Mahadevwala: Designing processes that lead to ‘solutions’

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An artist brings audience into work, turns art into experience

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From being called a Satanist to teaching how to drink water, the \’shock art\’ of Marina Abramovic has always elicited strong and impromptu reactions from her audience. She has always laid great importance on participative art and has, over the years, engaged her fans into exercises collectively known as the Abramovic Method. Abir Pothi brings to you the artist

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