Tennis legends Venus Williams and Serena Williams, along with their sister Isha Price, are set to make a significant impact in the art world and beyond. The trio has consigned four never-before-seen works by the iconic Black artist Ernie Barnes to a charity auction. These extraordinary pieces, consisting of two paintings and two drawings, will […]
The realm of Indian Art and Literature is profusely amalgamated, interwoven and innately connected. The translation of poetries into paintings was a profound form of art associating words with their visuals. Around 200 BCE, Bharat Muni’s Natyashastra, a compilation of Music, Dance, and Drama literature, intrinsically characterizes emotions as Rasas. He enunciated them into eight
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In the heart of an art gallery, a captivating exhibition titled “Usos y Costumbres” comes to life. Buenos Aires painter Laura Ojeda Bär skilfully renders Douglas Gordon’s profound text “I am the curator of my own misery” in small oil paintings. Yet, Bär goes beyond the confines of the text, meticulously painting the very walls
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Why is artwork treated as a mirror, more than a reflection of time, and a cultural product of an artist? A subjective narration transformed into the cultural artefacts of the inner worlds of human interactions happening in a specific time and space. We can answer the question of what art is in this manner. An
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The hands that embroider the Indian textiles are artists of the greatest degree. One such embroidery tradition from Karnataka is Kasuti embroidery. It is a popular art form in northern Karnataka that is practised by women of the region, India, rooted in the region’s villages. It is one of the oldest Indian practices, dating back
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Artists from Dahanu in the Palghar district have been given the esteemed opportunity to showcase their talent by painting the walls of the marble museum at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi with captivating Warli art. Through the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), disciples of the renowned Warli artist Padmashree Jivya Soma Mahse
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A groundbreaking new art book titled “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India” is set to be released, providing a pioneering study on the emergence of Buddhist art in southern India. The book, published by Mapin in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York, sheds light on the vibrant and
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Kintsugi is a Japanese way of repairing wounds in ceramics or pottery. As a philosophy, Japanese belief brings back beauty from the broken; experts use lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver or platinum to do this. The Kintsugi technique aims to bring damaged things back to life and use; it’s the art of
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