Kaavi art refers to a mural tradition indigenous to the Konkan coast, especially in Goa and adjoining parts of coastal Maharashtra and Karnataka. The term “kaav” denotes the maroon‑red pigment that artisans derive from laterite soil, while the white ground comes from lime plaster made with burnt seashells. Scholars date the practice to roughly 400 […]
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The Hurun India Art List 2025 names Anish Kapoor as India’s most valuable living artist by auction turnover, followed by Krishen Khanna and Sakti Burman, underlining the continuing strength of Indian modern and contemporary art in global and domestic markets. The list’s top ten artists together signal a market that rewards both long-established modernists and
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India has released a revised seismic zonation map under the Earthquake Design Code 2025, placing the entire Himalayan arc from Jammu and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh under a newly created highest-risk Zone VI for the first time. This landmark shift means that approximately 61% of the country now falls within moderate to high hazard zones, with three-quarters of
Tikuli art takes its name from “tikuli” or “tikli,” a term for the decorative bindi that women wear on the forehead. The form emerges in and around Patna and has a recorded history of more than 800 years, with references to production during Magadh and Mughal periods. Earlier, artisans created small, highly finished glass bindis
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Cheriyal scroll painting, part of the broader Nakashi tradition, developed in Telangana as a narrative cloth painting used by travelling bards.The practice took shape in and around Cheriyal village in the present Siddipet district and in urban centres near Hyderabad. Families of Nakashi artists supplied scrolls and related props to communities such as the Kaki
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In a historic move for the world’s most visited museum, Marlene Dumas has become the first contemporary female artist to have her work inducted into the permanent collection of the Louvre. The museum officially unveiled the acquisition, a site-specific installation titled Liaisons, in November 2025. The installation consists of nine paintings created specifically for the Porte
La Biennale di Venezia continues its ambitious Special Project “The Wind Makes the Sky. La Biennale di Venezia in the footsteps of Marco Polo,” curated by Luigia Lonardelli, with the fourth leg titled Indian Interior at Bikaner House, New Delhi. Running from December 2 to 28, 2025, in collaboration with the Kiran Nadar Museum of
1. Apple iPhone (2007) The Apple iPhone redefined what a smartphone could do by merging phone, camera, and internet browser into a single touch‑based device. It set the blueprint for modern mobile interfaces and turned app ecosystems into central parts of everyday life, from social media to navigation and banking. 2. Apple Macintosh (1984) The
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Abir Pothi founder Ruby Jagrut writes In today’s challenging time, when you decide to be an artist, I will surely congratulate you. We know what it is to be an artist—experiencing liberation and being able to see, express, and share one’s ideas through visual representation. To be an artist, you must choose first—choose to marry
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A painting is not merely a replication but a perspective of the painter. Who could have justified the statement better than Georges Seurat? A prodigy since a young age, he started drawing and painting in the 1870s. A course in sculpting and painting polished the rough edges. Soon he was enlisted in the military, where
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