Bridge Bharat: Building bridges across the traditional and the contemporary

Tapping into the cascading array of Pichwai, Madhubani, textiles, bronze and wooden artefacts and other traditional forms of Indian Art, Bridge Bharat has launched its own studio in Gurugram

Conversations with K.G. Subramanyan (1924-2016): Artist, Teacher, Visionary

This wide-ranging, in-depth interview with the Modernist master — whose birth centenary is being celebrated this year — was long lost to time and has been salvaged from a reporter’s archive.

Ranjan Kaul’s solo show, Within, Without: The politic of the paintbrush

Ranjan Kaul’s fifth solo show, ‘Within, Without,’ catches the viewers’ attention with its vibrant colours and profound storytelling, inviting them to explore the depths of imagination, and emotion.

Arjun Rathi teams up with Grant Garmezy for glasswork inspired by Indian motifs, symbols

Arjun Rathi is leading the charge in initiating an Indian Art Glass movement through collaborations with renowned international glass artists. Recently, he partnered with Grant Garmezy, the US-based sculptor known for his stunning blown work recreating the Indian wildlife

Tanvi Kumar interview: How tears shaped NY-based graphic designer-artist’s new project

To the graphic and UI/UX designer, different mediums offer various perspectives to draw from

20 years of Galleria VSB: Vandana Bhargava on the works of Modern masters

‘Timeless Strokes: The Masters,’ Galleria VSB’s new show to mark its 20th anniversary showcase, features iconic works from 24 modern and contemporary masters, including M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, and F.N. Souza

Design Democracy: Hyderabad’s maiden festival-exhibition celebrates creativity, innovation

Hyderabad, a burgeoning hub for upscale design, recently hosted the inaugural ‘Design Democracy’ festival and exhibition. With over 70 luxury brands, engaging exhibits, and insightful sessions, the event, spearheaded by Arjun Rathi, Shailja Patwari, and Pallika Sreewastav, celebrated the accessibility of outstanding design, and showcased India’s diverse creative talent

Gallery Threshold at 25: What inspired Tunty Chauhan to create a platform for artists

Threshold Art Gallery recently celebrated its 25th anniversary with the exhibition ‘Reflecting the Self’ at Bikaner House in New Delhi. The gallery’s founder, Tunty Chauhan, who curated the show, along with Deeksha Nath, talks about its inception and the road ahead

How Rooftop is modernising the traditional Indian art scene

At Rooftop, heritage meets technology. It celebrates diverse stories and techniques that shape our cultural history

Missing Piece/Peace: New photo exhibition, curated by Georgina Maddox, goes beyond the obvious, says the unsayable

Underling various aspects of spirituality, “Missing Piece/Peace,” a new show curated by Georgina Maddox, features the works of photographers-artists Hasnain Soomar, Masood Sarwer and Vishal Bhutani

Exploring the texture of memory: Artist Smita Jain on her solo show, ‘Past & Beyond’

Smita Jain explores memories of the past and the possibilities of the future in her works. Her background as a textile designer influences her approach to painting and composition; her use of textures and patterns lend atmosphere and mysticism to her work.

Nature’s beauty, its raw charm come to life in self-taught artist Sushma Mahajan’s solo show

Dr Sushma Mahajan, who is a radiologist by profession, is all set to hold her solo show, “Curious Charms: The Magic of Aquarelle,” at the the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, in New Delhi from April 1-4

Tarasha’s Design Direct: Curtain rises on a three-day showcase of craft and design in Delhi

Tarasha’s Design Direct, a unique showcase of artisan-designer collaborations, is set to take place at the Craft Village in Delhi from March 17 to 19

‘Threading the Horizon’: KHOJ's new show spotlights everydayness of gender-based violence

Fourteen community-based projects from across India depict “acts of resilience that emerge through the artistic practice of strengthening voices, placemaking, bearing witness, negotiating visibility and leisure, healing and catharsis”

Deveshi Goswami: ‘My creative process starts with an abundance of colours on canvas’

The Delhi-based artist, whose first solo show, ‘Fluid Emotions: Distilled Ecstasy,’ was held at Shridharani Gallery recently (Triveni Kala Sangam), is currently working on an installation which she hope to showcase soon

Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize: Second iteration to include artists from India, Greater China

The Prize seeks to award young Asian artists working in the arena of digital art

MASH Young Artist Award: Ten emerging artists to watch out for

An exhibition showcasing the works of ten young artists — who were chosen as top contenders for the MASH Young Artist Award — is on at the India International Centre. Of these ten, Sayantan Samanta has been declared the winner.

Indrapramit Roy: The Solitude of Thoughts and Colours

‘Soliloquy’, a solo show by artist Indrapramit Roy held at Threshold Art Gallery, unfolds a subtle narrative of the city, its suburbs and its dichotomies

The Quorum Club steps into art world, with Art Alive Gallery

The upscale social club extends its canvas to collaborate with the thriving art gallery, which represents some of the best contemporary artists in India, to ‘demystify’ art for its members

How Greater Than, India’s First Craft Gin, Got Five Artists To Reimagine William’s Hogarth’s Gin Lane

The Goa-based Nao Spirits and Beverages — the alco-bev brand which houses the craft gin brand Greater Than London Dry Gin — and contemporary sipping gin, Hapusa Himalayan Dry, sought to rewrite history in the most creative way: By asking five contemporary artists to reimagine and William Hogarth’s iconic work, which portrayed the evils of drinking gin in England of 18th century

Meera Mukherjee: The Modern Sculptor Who Lent Elegance To The Tales of Ordinary People

Meera Mukherjee had a great affinity for pastoral scenes and found ordinary folks caught in their routine chores joyful. She captured their simple pleasures and the ebb and flow of their emotions and moods.

Rahul Kumar on his practice as a ceramic artist and curator

'The medium of clay and the entire process of ceramics is complex and potentially almost forces any practitioner of this medium to embrace what comes as a challenge'

India Art Fair Director Jaya Asokan on Building Bridges Across Fields

Jaya Asokan, the director of India Art Fair, on the highlights of the 13th edition

Review of Ranjan Kaul’s solo show, ‘A Ringside View’

In his works, the artist chronicles unseen snapshots from the lives of the common person

The Gulammohammed Sheikh Interview: Portrait of An Artist

Open Call for Rs 25 million grants: Jonathan Kennedy, Director Arts India at British Council, on ‘India-UK Together 2022 Programme’

British Council’s new campaign invites proposals for collaborative projects from arts organisations in India and the UK

Hemi Bawa: ‘When I conceptualise a sculpture, it speaks to me’

From her early paintings in oil and acrylics to her sculptures in cast glass, aluminium and bronze, Hemi Bawa plumbs the depths of human psyche by her stylistic and ingenious use of light, texture and contour.

Mandira Lamba on her art ventures, collaborations and passion for tribal art forms

‘Text in art and art in text has always engaged me', says the founder and director of two art initiatives — Blueprint12 and Tribal Art Forms

Jogen Chowdhury: The Enchantment of the Everyday

For Chowdhury, who lives and works out of New Delhi, Santiniketan and Kolkata, it is important that everyday objects should be made artistic. He says: ‘My works have introverted quality with intense feelings. When I paint or draw, I also establish a relationship with my subjects. As a social being, it becomes natural. It serves multiple purposes’.

The Glass Makers’ Club: Exploring Commerce of Glass as an Art Form

The club, launched by Artspeaks India, an entity I founded more than a decade ago, will provide glass the space and recognition it deserves by enabling artists, practitioners, writers, connoisseurs and collectors to explore the medium in different ways

The Art Platform India: A New Venture And Its Way Forward

TAP India aims to present collections, exhibitions and events in an endeavour to support art and artists, encourage synergies among galleries, explore new markets and open doors to conversations around modern and contemporary art

Vijayaraghavan Srinivasan’s ‘Techno Avatar’: Recovery of artistic certainties and beyond

Mired ostensibly in the vortex of commodification, Indian video-artist and multi-media painter Vijayaraghavan Srinivasan’s ‘Techno Avatar’ gives expression to the mundane, the quotidian and the banal, and lends the dreary a dash of unhistoricised flippancy

Meet Five Artists Whose Works Show the Evolution of Indian Art

Artists Ganesh Haloi, Nilima Sheikh, Atul Dodiya, Manjunath Kamath and Shilpa Gupta tread an eclectic path to create art. They have embraced different art forms and developed their own unique visual language that endorses the emergence of Indian art in the global contemporary art scene

Notes From the Lockdown

The global shutdown and the continuing lockdown in India has given us an opportunity to rethink our ways, to adapt to more sustainable ways of living, and to understand the value of less is more. However, there remains an undercurrent of apprehension: After the ‘new normal’, will we gravitate towards the ‘old normal’ after all?

Shubigi Rao: The Art of Embedded Histories

The curator for the fifth edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, scheduled to kick off on December 12, on the challenges of curation during the pandemic, the inevitability of physical isolation informing the artists’ work, the biennale as a space of comfort and consolation and unearthing the marginalised and subsumed histories and narratives in her work

The Quiet Landscape of the Self

The lockdown has made it possible for me to return to painting, which I had stopped after 2007. In my paintings, mostly abstract and landscapes, I try to capture studies of light on canvas

The Quiet Landscape of the Self

The lockdown has made it possible for me to return to painting, which I had stopped after 2007. In my paintings, mostly abstract and landscapes, I try to capture studies of light on canvas

Lockdown Diaries

Staying at home, reflecting on the idea of home, belonging, life, relationships with others, as well between pain and creativity, loneliness, family time and hatred in the time of pandemic

Drishti: Turning the Gaze to the Self

Amid the darkness of the pandemic, hope can give an intangible high, but what direction should this hope have? Confined for two months in our home in Paris, I and my wife took a surreal visual approach to Drishti, a beautiful philosophy in Yogveda, which teaches you how the energy flow in the body is directly linked to the mind. It led us to shoot a series of images.

Self-portraits in the Time of Social Distancing

With social distancing as the new normal, various questions about self, life, and the life around us have come to the forefront. How do people engage with spaces, with confinement, with tiring familiarity, a persistent routine what could be a visually compelling idea of the self?

The Return of Nature

As the world stops and humanity retreats indoors, I look back at the road I took as a wildlife storyteller. It has let me in on the beauty, perfection and fragility of the world.

Holding Hands

Through this period of physical isolation, I have been grateful to friends for helping me stay afloat. I understand and imagine so much of the world through their eyes. How can this understanding shape the kind of solidarity I engage in? How, why, and who does this solidarity serve?

Epilogue to Extended Tomorrows

During the pandemic, as growing challenges emerge for independent arts initiatives and public platforms for contemporary culture in South Asia, one can’t help but be conscious of the lasting role of creative interdependence and pluralistic alliances

Quarantine Notes from Dhaka

In the lockdown, digging into the archive to find scraps of personal memories and reels of surprise — negatives, portraits, sculptures and photographs

Handmade is the Way Forward

The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown has severely affected the handloom sector, which was already reeling under the impact of demonetisation and GST. For centuries, the handloom weaver has continued to work from home, offering the world the choice of a conscious living, which is sustainable, local and green. These weavers offer me the hope and the conviction to carry on my journey in the handmade sector

TikTok: How artist Gigi Scaria is Using His Time

Gigi Scaria’s conceptually strong art practice has always been concerned with distancing, absence and presence. The artist, however, says we need to go out in order to be in. In lockdown, holding up at his home in Greater Noida, Scaria is stepping out — through TikTok — to be brought back in

The Mad Girl Laughs

Notes from a Locked-down Bombay

Anjolie Ela Menon:The Extraordinariness of the Ordinary

Known for her extraordinary portrayals of the ordinary folks, Anjolie Ela Menon is dismayed to see the migrant crisis unfold. Confined to her Delhi home, she has found it hard to keep art on hold. She has rigged up a makeshift studio in her house to produce a series of small works, like Festival and Landscape

The State of Art in the post-Covid World

Art has always been an ambassador to reflect critical dialogues around socio-economic moments and will play an increasingly important role in the post-pandemic world. The structure of business is set to change in the gallery and the auction spheres

Amar Kanwar: Songs of Continuity

The filmmaker is presently exhibiting two solo projects in a landmark collaboration between NYUAD Art Gallery and Ishara Art Foundation in Dubai

Tara Sabharwal: Borders of Belonging

The New York-based artist of Indian origin on curating a show about migrants, the politics of ‘othering’ and the horror of the migrant crisis

Artists as Darners and Healers

A group exhibition in Delhi brings together works that seem to mend an artist’s broken sense of the self or the world

Beyond Designs Home and Bistro: A Sense of Aesthetics

Delhi-based interior designer and architect Neha Gupta, who co-founded Beyond Designs — the elegant and uber chic furniture, home accessories and interiors solution brand — along with her husband, Sachin Gupta, on the new vertical of the brand, Beyond Designs Home and Bistro, a thrilling blend of design and cuisine

Krishen Khanna: A Life in Colours

The artist’s oeuvre reflects a distinct sensitivity ti the suffering of mankind. He translates his empathy into paintings and sculptures of marginalised labourers, musicians, refugees and bandwallas

Paresh Maity: The Vocabulary of Art

The artist on starting his works with nothing, being a colourist, and how art dominates him to explore different unknown horizons

Wild and Beautiful

A show at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art puts the spotlight on our relationship with the animal world

The Great Mix

A new show brings together several niche, design-led brands in a curated space, creating interplays between materials and objects

Nitin Kohli: Have A Decor

Nitin Kohli Homes, an interior design and bespoke furniture manufacturing brand for uber luxurious interior solutions, swears by functionality, affordability, and a home owner’s individuality in their latest three collections — Condo, Conversations and Pillow Talk

On View in Venice, Core of Gandhian Philosophy

India returns to the 58th Venice Biennale after eight long years

A Room of Her Own

In her new show, artist Maite Delteil showcases unseen works from the 1960s that evoke the many moods of women — single, contemplative, naked — in their boudoirs

Cartoons: Adventures in Adjuncting & God and Satan

Bhubaneswar Art Trail: An exploration into the medieval city

Bhubaneswar Art Trail achieves what it had set out to do, quite impressively and in the process, brings together a community of people from the city and far beyond.

Every material has a history: Arunkumar HG

Artist Arunkumar HG on his new show Con-struction and the choice of form and medium and the texture of his works

Trysts with India

Reflecting on what you have done and might do next is an important part of the creation process, says Michel Testard, who was born in Japan, educated in France, travelled and worked in Africa, Europe, the US, Middle East and China. His wanderings in India have led to Glimpses of India, a show which was held at Bikaner House in New Delhi between May 17-27. The India chapter, he says, is the natural continuation of a never ending journey — travel — that has taken him around the world

Kahn built structures that transport you to another universe: Sundaram Tagore

Sundaram Tagore’s second film, Tiger City, is a feature-length documentary on the world-renowned American architect Louis I. Kahn

At workplaces, people want to feel at home: Maria Bourke

Ram Kumar: An Artist of Rare Sensitivity

Ram Kumar, one of the great pioneers of Indian art, displayed a concern with the plight of the individual through both his figurative and abstract paintings

Minal Vazirani: Course of Auction

Minal vazirani, co-founder of Saffronart, India’s leading auction house with global footprints, on the art of auctions and the method of collecting art

My work is politically charged: Unnikrishnan

Unnikrishnan C., 26, an emerging artist from Kerala, is all set for his first solo exhibition in Switzerland from March 9-12, courtesy avid collectors Richard and Adrienne Blum of Zug

I enter the unknown spontaneously: Vivan Sundaram

Artist Vivan Sundaram, 75, aims to disrupt and disturb the viewers. His retrospective, “Step Inside And You Are No Longer A Stranger”, curated by Roobina Karode, is on at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi till June 30

Riyas Komu: The Anatomy of Angst

Artist Riyas Komu says he approaches his latest show aesthetically, conceptually and structurally

An Archivist of Our Times

Holy Shiver, Riyas Komu’s latest solo show, documents his response to the attitude of the state. He is an artist who is committed to his ideals

Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Where the wild things are

62 countries. 53,232 performances of 3,398 shows in 300 venues. The Fringe offers a dynamic cross-cultured journey that evokes a gamut of emotions

Documenta 14 examines the big questions of life

Documenta 14, world's best-known art event, examines the big questions of life, time and space and the essence of our aesthetics. A look at the works of five Indian artists who will participate

I like to play with form, material: G R Iranna

Iranna's solo show, ‘Ether is All That is, was on at Gallery Espace in New Delhi recently. He says it’s ether’s in-betweenness that fascinates him. The artist, who uses ash as his medium to show the impermanence of life, says the universe is a big mystery

'Abstract art helps express what words can't describe'

Delhi-based artist Saba Hasan’s works wrestle with the forces of time, nature & personal histories. The artist talks about her new show and her craft

Real beauty is linked to truth: Shakti Maira

Painter, sculptor and thinker Shakti Maira feels beauty is all about excellence in relationality. ‘Beauty is not just how things look, it’s about how things really are,’ says the artist, talking about his book, The Promise of Beauty and Why it Matters, and his recent show, Formed Resonance

Jitish Kallat’s works amaze the senses, challenge the mind

Jitish Kallat is at the forefront of India’s contemporary art movement. His oeuvre inquires into some of the essential ideas of life.

Delhi’s most significant annual art event gets into its second decade

The 2017 edition of the India Art Fair saw a usual mix of colour, canvas and crowds

My art practice is about social conditions, issues that affect women: Anila Quayyum Agha

Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha, whose installations were part of the India Art Fair 2017, tells The Punch that in her artworks she tries to find some way to connect with people and their experiences, through issues that affect them on a deeper level

Serendipity Arts Festival proves to be feast for the senses

The inaugural edition of the multi-disciplinary festival, which was held in Goa in December 2016, has set enviable benchmarks

My Journey: Seeing Inside

World cinema changed my perspective. Bertolucci's films had elaborate frames and sensuous colours. I watched Zanussi, Kieslowski and Polanski with bated breath