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Aditya Sisodia Manchester’s renowned Whitworth Gallery has announced the appointment of Sook-Kyung Lee as its new director. Lee, currently serving as a senior curator at London’s Tate Modern, will bring her expertise and experience to lead the innovative and audience-focused art institution. The Whitworth, part of the University of Manchester, has a rich history dating […]

Pratiksha Shome Climate activists erected flags, banners, and a tiny oil rig outside the Museum of Modern Art on Thursday evening during its annual Party in the Garden, a significant fundraiser for the institution, as the sky over Manhattan turned a murky yellow from smoke brought down from Canadian wildfires. In order to get MoMA

Pratiksha Shome Egyptian officials disallowed archaeologists from the Leiden National Museum of Antiquities from doing further excavations in the Saqqara necropolis after they offended them with their portrayal of ancient Egypt in the exhibition “Kemet: Egypt in Hip Hop, Jazz, Soul & Funk.” According to a leaked email from the chief of the Egyptian Antiquities

Pratiksha Shome The size of the human brain has increased thrice throughout the millions of years that it has been evolving, and behaviour has become exponentially more complex. Simple stone tools were all that the early, small-brained hominins (human family members) could produce. Later, more intelligent ancestors created more advanced tools and established more sophisticated

Tsuktiben Jamir The Downtown Minneapolis Street Art Festival is a highly acclaimed event that graces the heart of Minneapolis, USA, every year. This unique festival captures the essence of street art in all its vibrant forms, inviting locals and tourists to indulge in a captivating downtown art extravaganza. With its distinct charm, the festival unfolds

Tsuktiben Jamir Despite having hands and feet that resembled those of modern humans, Homo naledi, a hominin found in the Rising Star cave system in Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, had a brain that was just one-third the size of a modern human, a trait that experts had previously ascribed to a sign of the species’

Tsuktiben Jamir Children’s Art Museum of India (CAMI) was founded by Manya (16) and Krish (13) during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the pandemic came the lockdowns, and this put a stop to all activities outside the home. During this time, the duo came up with the idea of starting the Children’s Art Museum of India

Tsuktiben Jamir Born in 1958, Peter Howson is a Scottish painter. He is well known for his stint as a British official war artist for the Imperial War Museum in 1993 during the Bosnian War. As a result, many of the paintings he produced show scenes of abhorrent depravity, such as rape, castration, and impaling.