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MoMA apologizes to artist after ejection from ‘Black Power Naps’ installation

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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Poetics of the Machine: When technology meets the Arts

Saptarshi Ghosh Painting with Machines: An Introduction to Machine Learning Art Machine learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), which allows computers to learn from experience rather than being programmed. It has contributed to the development of a loosely-defined field of arts wherein artists use various AI algorithms to magically conjure up images

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Seed for Thought: The empowering artwork of artist-farmer-environmentalist Shweta Bhattad

Digvijay Nikam To go to the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi on a weekend to engage in a contemplative appreciation of intricate paintings and sculptures might be one way of confronting art where the cackle of the street and the concerns of the crumbling everyday life may be kept at bay. One might

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Pushing Frontiers of Possibilities: The Three Digital Artists Taking the Indian Art Scene by Storm

Saptarshi Ghosh From augmented reality (AR) to 3D scans of urban environments – Mira Felicia Malhotra, Gaurav Ogale and Varun Desai are three contemporary Indian artists whose practices harness latest developments in technology to critically reflect on contemporary concerns. They showed at the Digital Residency Hub at India Art Fair 2023, as part of the

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The shape of memory: Indian gallery Emami Art is going to Art Düsseldorf

Tsuktiben Jamir Emami Art is no stranger to art lovers in Kolkata; established not so long ago in 2016, Emami Art is a prominent contemporary art gallery in the bustling city of Kolkata in India. Through exhibitions, seminars, and other events, Emami Art focuses on promoting modern and contemporary artists from India. Well, Emami Art

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The Visible/Invisible exhibition: Kickstarting South India’s first major museum

Tsuktiben Jamir We have already caught wind of the opening of the first ever major museum in South Indian called the ‘Museum of Art and Photography’ in the green city of Bengaluru. As a part of the debut exhibition, visitors witnessed the curated walkthrough of ‘Visible/Invisible’ on the 23rd of February, that featured a variety of

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International Women’s Day Special – Celebrating the Art and Lives of Women Artists

Saptarshi Ghosh Two Faces of Resilience: Judy Chicago and Shirin Neshat Judy Chicago and Shirin Neshat are two very different artists, but what links them is the struggles they had to face as women in the male-dominated American art world. That being said, their individual struggles were very different owing to their different backgrounds. Born

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Of Art and Defiance: The Lives of Frida Kahlo and Amrita Sher-Gil

Saptarshi Ghosh Two of the foremost women painters of the twentieth century, Amrita Sher-Gil and Frida Kahlo’s artistic careers have uncanny similarities. They carved out unique female subjectivities in their works, thereby introducing a much-needed female perspective in a tradition dominated by male artists for centuries. The female body features prominently in both their art,

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