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India through the eyes of a Russian Polymath, 150 years of Roerich.

Editor's Pick, Exhibitions /

Art enthusiasts, scholars, and cultural connoisseurs gathered on 4 March 2025 to witness something extraordinary—the unveiling of “Nicholas Roerich: The Eternal,” a landmark exhibition commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of one of history’s most enigmatic artists at The National Gallery of Modern Art. The exhibition, painstakingly curated over many months, brought together pieces from across […]

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Revisiting the Guerrilla Girls’ Feminist Art Crusade and the Met’s Gender Bias

Columns, Editor's Pick /
Metropolitan Museum of Art exterior and gender representation in female artists

From Provocation to Progress: Has the Art World Evolved Since 1989? In 1989, the Guerrilla Girls—an anonymous collective of feminist artists—put up a billboard asking a relevant (yet biting) question: “Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?” Originally supposed to be a billboard, commissioned by the Public Art Fund in

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Cartoonists React to Zelensky-Trump Feud in the Oval Office

Editor's Pick, Photo Gallery /

The typically stoic diplomatic process was a session of finger-pointing, metaphorical fists in the air, making the abrupt outburst the most intense public spat between foreign leaders in the Oval Office of the United States. The two leaders were meeting to strike a deal but what ended up happening was the deal itself got striked.

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Jeff Koons’ Made in Heaven is the Public’s Best-Kept Secret

Editor's Pick, Opinion Feature /

The Beginning of Jeff Koons’ Art Controversy It all began in 1989, when via an invitation by the Whitney Museum, and guest curator Marvin Heiferman, Jeff Koons created a piece focused on media for a billboard for the exhibition “Image World: Art and Media Culture.” Koons’ billboard promoted a fictional film named Made in Heaven.

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Luigi Mangione is “kind of pretty” in his New Courtroom Sketches: Christine Cornell

Editor's Pick, News /
Luigi Mangione Court Sketcg by Artist Christine Cornell

Luigi Mangione is NOW Among the Famous Courtroom Drawings The New York City courtroom was surrounded by Luigi Mangione’s fandom rallying in his support. Tried for the murder of United Health Care CEO, Brian Thompson, Mangione appeared in front of a judge and pled not guilty, sending the courtroom sketch artists into a frenzy. Suffice

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Framing The Black History Month With An Ambedkarite Vision.

Columns, Editor's Pick /

Bakery Prasad Illustrates a Shared Space Between Black History Legends and Dalit Community Icons. In the United States of America, February is celebrated as Black history month. To commemorate the long struggle of the African-American community in the states, the annual remembrance helps in keeping history alive and thriving and celebrating Black art and culture. 

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Why Is Western Art Defined by “Isms” While Indian Art Is Rooted in Regions and Traditions?

Columns, Editor's Pick /
A composite image featuring vibrant traditional Indian artwork depicting Krishna playing the flute alongside mythological figures, juxtaposed with a classical European painting of Jesus surrounded by disciples, showcasing diverse artistic styles and cultural storytelling.

Introduction Art mirrors society, with its cultural, historical and philosophical underpinning. One of the organising principles of Western art history has been the categorisation of the development of the arts into movements or “isms” such as Impressionism, Cubism and Surrealism, which represent identifiable styles, philosophies, and historical phases. Indian art, by contrast, is usually named

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The Dune Popcorn Bucket Is One of the Rare Cases Where Form-Over-Function Has Actually Worked

Editor's Pick, Featured /

Next Gen Popcorn Buckets When ‘Dune: Part 1’ came out, the fans (including yours truly) went gaga over it. Frank Herbert must be delighted looking at a faithful adaptation of his beloved sci-fi novel series. Watching the film touched me in places I never knew existed (pun un-intended). As the cinematic masterpiece unfurled infront of

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