India’s only daily newspaper for Art, Architecture, and Design.
adfeatured Architecture Room For More Art Adaptive Re-Use of Historical Buildings and Monuments Introduction Creative solutions, such as adaptive reuse, which repurposes historic buildings for modern purposes while preserving their historical and spiritual relevance, are necessary to preserve historical heritage, especially religious buildings. adfeatured Architecture Room For More Art The Surreal Landscape of Christopher Nolan’s […]
Architecture & Design Read More »
A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends
Sir Terence Conran’s Personal Design Collection Fetched $1.4 Million in an auction Read More »
A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends
J Balvin to be the first-ever cultural ambassador of Hirshhorn Museum Read More »
NOVEMBER 12, ON THIS DAY Balan Nambiar is a contemporary artist and scholar who works in a variety of media, including painting, enamelling, photography, research and sculpture. He is renowned for his large-scale sculptures, which are typically composed of materials like bronze, mild steel, stainless steel, and fiber-reinforced concrete. He also uses machine technology and
Balan Nambiar’s engagement with materiality Read More »
NOVEMBER 5, ON THIS DAY Pietro Longhi was a famous Venetian painter known for his miniature genre pieces that exemplified the \”private and the bourgeois\” trend. Popular for their attractiveness and apparent innocence, yet with a hint of light humour, his paintings exhibit the interest in social observation that was distinctive of the Enlightenment. They
Pietro Longhi\’s Scenes from Everyday Life Read More »
A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends
Key people to step down from key positions Read More »
Manish Kumat is an architect at par excellence, who has more than 1000 projects under his belt. Indian Institute of Interior Design was his brain child. He was the founder Chairman of the institute. Besides being the Chairman, he also held several important positions in IID. Abir Pothi had an hour long conversion with Manish
How Indore based architect Manish Kumat’s architecture is close to nature Read More »
OCTOBER 26, ON THIS DAY \’Observing life through all my various travels, I have been particularly struck by the fact that even in our time people kill one another under all possible pretexts, and by every possible means. Wholesale murder is still called war, while killing individuals is called execution. Everywhere the same worship of
Depiction of gritty portrayals of war by Vasily Vereshchagin Read More »
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”— Pablo Picasso After hundreds of sketches and several months of painting, Picasso changed the face of the Western art world by producing Les Demoiselles d\’Avignon. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is a large oil painting created in 1907 by
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: Pablo Picasso\’s Controversial painting Read More »
In religious festivals and yearly ceremonies all over India, Ramayan\’s tales of valour, loyalty, and love are still told and performed thousands of years after they were first written. Drawing inspiration from the impact of this omnipresent cultural myth on everyday Indian life, Vasantha has retraced Rama’s legendary route from north to south India for
Yoganathan’s new age Ramayan Read More »