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Pratiksha Shome Stephanie Temma Hier described the opulent visual contrasts that distinguish her work as “the flotsam and jetsam of daily life.” Her pieces blend glossy, careful oil paintings with three-dimensional ceramic sculptures in a real avalanche of shapes—lobsters, teeth, horses—that frame them, creating an unsettling visual tension. Hier shows a stack of three automobile […]

Pratiksha Shome Thanks to a senior neighbourhood garbageman, archaeologists last year unearthed more than 20 old Roman and Etruscan statues in Tuscany, close to a thermal treatment where specialists had spent years looking in vain for supposed nearby historic remains. The 2000-year-old statues will now, after months of cleaning and restoration, go on display in

Pratiksha Shome The exhibition “It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby,” which debuted today and received unfavourable press in ARTnews and the New York Times, has been defended by the Brooklyn Museum. More than 100 pieces are included in the exhibition, which Gadsby and senior curators Catherine Morris and Lisa Small of the Brooklyn Museum

Tsuktiben Jamir When it comes to superhero teams, The Avengers is a favourite among many. From Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor, to Hawk-Eye and the Hulk, these names are not uncommon in the world today. Unfortunately, they have never been to India; we can only imagine the supposed scenario in our heads. However, an

Pratiksha Shome The title of this show at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art in Cape Town is a parody of Ava Duvernay’s 2019 Netflix film “When They See Us,” which centres on the Central Park Five, a group of Black teens who were wrongfully charged with killing a white jogger in 1989 before being

PratikshaShome The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that a 16th-century painting known as Madonna with Child that is credited to the baroque painter Alessandro Turchi has returned to Poland after being stolen by Nazis during World War II. The artwork, one of 600 pieces that have been returned to Poland since the war and discovered

Pratiksha Shome According to Bjrn Karmann’s website, the Paragraphica camera generates a stream of text that is then transformed into a “photo” using censors and geolocation information, including weather data. The red item, which according to the photography website Digital Camera World resembles a TV aerial crammed where the lens should be, substitutes the lens