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Saptarshi Ghosh Painting with Machines: An Introduction to Machine Learning Art Machine learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), which allows computers to learn from experience rather than being programmed. It has contributed to the development of a loosely-defined field of arts wherein artists use various AI algorithms to magically conjure up images […]
Poetics of the Machine: When technology meets the Arts Read More »
Digvijay Nikam To go to the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi on a weekend to engage in a contemplative appreciation of intricate paintings and sculptures might be one way of confronting art where the cackle of the street and the concerns of the crumbling everyday life may be kept at bay. One might
To promote Indian ceramic art among the Indian art fraternity and around the world, the Indian Ceramic Art Foundation (ICAF) publishes a journal of Indian ceramic art titled ‘MRIN’. ICAF is the national, non-profit organisation aimed at promoting knowledge, engagement and appreciation of ceramic art through establishing networks among the artist community, educators, designers, collectors,
MRIN to serve as the catalyst for the recognition of Indian ceramic art 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 »
Abirpothi interviews Preeti Garg, co-founder of Gallery Veda “To make art more inclusive and not intimidating was the idea behind the gallery. Chennai, with its well-known love for the arts, provides the perfect setting for such a concept. The need for a distinctive space amid the homogeneity is what urged me to start the gallery,”
Gallery Veda wants to find space for every art piece Read More »
Digvijay Nikam “What I am interested in is the fact of many hands…when people see work like that, they should be able to feel the presence of those people.” – Anatsui El Anatsui is a Ghanian sculptor who has garnered international acclaim for his ingenious use of everyday discarded materials in his work, especially the
The ‘Spiritual Charge’ of discarded materials in El Anatsui’s sculptures Read More »
Rishiraj Sethi A joint initiative of IIM-A and the Mumbai-based Aura Art Development Pvt Ltd, the IIMA-AuraArt Indian Art (Price) Index — or IAIAI — has been called a “head-heart confluence” While the international art market is at least a whopping 250 years old — if one were to take the formation of notable auction
Understanding the unique art index that bolsters art investment in India Read More »
Saptarshi Ghosh Belonging to different eras and hailing from radically different backgrounds, Anupam Sud and Mary Cassatt are two artists who have left an indelible impression in the history of art. Sud is a veteran artist, who is considered one of the finest printmakers in India. Belonging to a conservative family, Sud’s commitment to her
The Enduring Legacies of Anupam Sud and Mary Cassatt Read More »
Saptarshi Ghosh Judy Chicago and Shirin Neshat are two very different artists, but what links them is the struggles they had to face as women in the male-dominated American art world. That being said, their individual struggles were very different owing to their different backgrounds. Born in the city of Chicago in the late 1930s,
Two Faces of Resilience: Judy Chicago and Shirin Neshat Read More »
Rajesh Kumar “In the best art there is an inescapable element of strangeness, the sense of a novel wonder, a mystery burning at the heart of life, and it is the strangeness this incandescence which above all the painting of Mithila transmits”. The overwritten statement is the words William G. Archer chose to end his
Mithila Art: Reincarnated from the rubbles of an earthquake Read More »