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Speaking Back to Power: Art as a Tool for Political Resistance and Social Change

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Saptarshi Ghosh The Subversive Humour in Honoré Daumier’s Caricatures Honoré Daumier was a prominent 19th century French artist and printmaker, who was known for his political caricatures. With his sharp wit and acerbic humour, Daumier mounted scathing attacks on the corrupt ruling establishment and made incisive commentaries on contemporary socio-political issues through his satirical lithographs. […]

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First museum exhibition by Simone Leigh shows the artist at the top of her game

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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

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Dalit History Month Special: Celebrating the Art and Resistance of Dalit Artists

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Saptarshi Ghosh Dalit History Month, which is observed every year in the month of April, is meant to recognise and celebrate the struggles and achievements of Dalit communities across the world. It was first observed in 2015 by a group of young Dalit women, including Sanghapali Aruna and Thenmozhi Soundararajan. However, the idea of a

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The biggest art festival in Asia comes to an end: The fifth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

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Tsuktiben Jamir The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an international exhibition of contemporary art that is hosted in Kochi, Kerala, India every two years. It is both the biggest contemporary art festival in Asia and the largest art show in the whole nation. The fifth edition of this festival recently concluded with a big bang at the

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The Punk in Pink: Exploring Queer Art History on International Day of Pink.

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Vaishnavi Srivastava 12th April, ON THIS DAY “But why should women and queer people learn to forget? Generational logic underpins our investments in the dialectic of memory and forgetting;” — J. Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure What comes to your mind when you first imagine the colour pink? Soft pastels? Hyper femininity? Or the

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