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Do women paint differently?

It is said that the male gaze is different. Their obsession is with the form and to an extent even objectification.

3 May 2018 7:45 AM IST

Works by (top) Achal Kumar, Aruna Vasudev and Chavi Asrani

Exploring nature with a brush and camera

Another notable show that took place last week was Transition by young artist Chavi Asrani.

26 April 2018 2:34 AM IST

The force that Shridhar Iyer brings to his canvas was altogether another worldly. The spiritual connect of his strokes in almost a whoosh of energy was startling.

Art camps nurture artists' interpersonal relations

It was a new experience for both us to create and the audiences to see the paintings being created.

19 April 2018 2:06 AM IST

Lalit Kala Akademi, it was a very moving experience for me. I told him that and he smiled benignly like my father would when very moved or amused.

Ram Kumar: Going across the bhavsagar in Banaras

In my mind he will always remain the artist who painted hauntingly beautiful images of Banaras in various lights.

15 April 2018 1:52 AM IST

Moving towards stability?

With no historical perspective of art, any work whether or not auction worthy was thrown into the market.

12 April 2018 12:10 AM IST

This is the time when several farm hands get busy with carrying out small-time activity relating to the crafts.

Living on the edge of the crafts

Interestingly enough, these seasonal workers constitute a large section of craft workers and fill in an important gap of...

5 April 2018 1:07 AM IST

The artists treatment of the human figure renders it gender non-specific but there is also interesting embracing of the same figure enveloping and embracing itself too.

When footprints become landmarks

Photography as a medium has found many followers in this digital era but earlier when people clicked photos, every...

29 March 2018 2:52 AM IST

As summer descends on us too soon this year, all that one can consider wearing are delicate, transparent and translucent Chanderis.

Chanderis: Fit for a queen's ransom

Many looms fell silent but this last decade has seen some of the looms restart and return with greater energy.

22 March 2018 2:38 AM IST

Yatrik collaborated with many theatre personalities including Alyque Padamsee, Ebrahim Alkazi, Barry John, Kulbhushan Kharbanda.

An ode to magical Joy Micheal

The air of decedent genteel snobbery yielded to a neat clipped look - rather like the tones of the new principal...

15 March 2018 6:34 AM IST

Puran Chand Wadali and Pyarelal Wadali form the Wadali Brothers.

Remembering Pyarelal: The singer who leaves behind a void in

As their voices touched the higher octaves with effortless ease, one couldn't help but stop and listen.

10 March 2018 6:57 AM IST

Seriously, architects and designers need to make mandatory visits to art shows and art fairs just to see that thinking out of the box is a possibility.

Time for a swadeshi movement in design?

A country that arguably produces the world's best hand-tufted carpets had a stall with an amazing carpet priced at a...

8 March 2018 7:59 AM IST

Art consumers be they be buyers, investors or audiences seldom realise that entire lives are dedicated to the creation of arts, both visual and performing, and that not being able to make a living out of it is heartbreaking.

Art beat: Living on the canvas

The internet has liberated the art business a bit from the earlier stranglehold of a few, but it has still far, far to...

5 March 2018 1:56 AM IST