Centurion SH Raza celebrations in London
The installation views of Sayed Haider Raza’s celebration in London speak about the beauty of the past and the integrity needed to prove provenance in the works of a modern master. Grosvenor Gallery in...
View ArticleFive Raza’s for Earth Day in London
This Passion Week as the world celebrates 100 years of the birth of Sayed Haider Raza one recalls his love for churches and Christian hymns sung during the days of the Stations of the cross.Raza...
View ArticleClocking 14 years of Epic Exhibitions
Clocking 14 years since its inception and presenting exhibitions that form the hallmark of curatorial and contemporary art practices, Experimenter Gallery Kolkata can look back at an evolution that has...
View ArticleArzan Khambatta is Art of India (TOI) exhibition’s best discovery
In a corner at Bikaner House at the Art & Soul, Art of India exhibition is a stellar sculpture of a horse’s head.Entitled Mustang Sally it is a mesmerising portrait of a horse in the...
View ArticleThree best works at Art of India exhibition
Curated by Dr Tarana Khubchandani and the brilliant Brinda Miller TOI’s Art of India exhibition in Delhi had three works that you could gaze at for long periods of time. Rini Dhumal’s monochromatic...
View ArticleVinod Sharma’s untold stories
For four decades artist Vinod Sharma has been painting landscapes. Art Pilgrim at Triveni Kala Sangam in Delhi , unveils his majestic paintings to exemplify Sharma’s talent for capturing the nuances...
View ArticleFive Earth Day images to invest in planet earth
April 22nd is an important date in the calendar for 2023 because it will be the celebration of Earth Day all over the world.The theme this year is Invest in Our Planet and we are...
View ArticleArt and the environment merge in birds
In 1993 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC were an unforgettable series of bird watercolour paintings. Belonging to circa,1600 here were a riveting series of works on paper. Each painting...
View ArticleArtist Manoj Dutta leaves behind his love for the earth
The news of artist Manoj Dutta’s demise came as one of descending darkness. Suddenly one recalled the love for Manoj Dutta by the grand guru of Shantiniketan Jogen Chowdhury who encouraged him lifelong...
View ArticleFive photographs that reflect love for the Earth
The Sufi saint Salim Chisti said : ‘Develop river like generosity, sun like bounty and earth like hospitality.’ This Earth Day is perhaps a reflective exercise to look at the works of five...
View ArticleRemembering Jamini Roy on his death anniversary
India’s first modernist master, Jamini Roy passed away on 24th April 1972. In this millennium, April is observed as Earth Month and you can’t help feeling it is an incantation to the memory of an...
View ArticleIn Kolkata, barbed wire and black flowers form exhibition Design
Step off the lift and the title Kashmir Chromosomes, designed by Oiendrila Ray Kapur meets your gaze at the Pinakin Patel, KCC/Emami Art Building that is one of the finest exhibition spaces in India....
View ArticleScale and textures and pure process
The art season in India comes to a close through summer months and one curator who continues to explore the clever play of scale and textures, in the exhibition stages she creates is Monica Jain of...
View ArticleShibu Natesan’s inner state and eye in London
Step into the realms of light and shadow as you espie plein air views of London and India .Landscapes that whisper of seasons, of solitude and serenity all create a balm for our very souls, as they...
View ArticleYayoi Kusama’s eternal love for pumpkins and polkadots
David Zwirner New York , unveiled an epic exhibition by the world’s most expensive living artist, the 93 year old Yayoi Kusama . Her historical show of sculptures and paintings and an infinity room...
View ArticleNS Rana’s stirring sculptures in Delhi
At the boutique outlet Santushti in the 1990s I used to walk into ARTINDUS and spend time gazing at NS Rana’s bronzes of Lord Krishna the flute player and the trees. Rana had a resonance...
View ArticleFour compelling and charismatic works in Hong Kong
Two still lifes, two landscapes , make for a compelling suite in the upcoming Christie’s Sales at Hong Kong on 28th-29th May 2023. Christie’s Hong Kong will unveil a number of sales , that constellate...
View ArticleIndia’s finest artists at NGMA’s Jana Shakti registers brilliance
The carefully selected constellation of India’s contemporary artists at the NGMA’s celebration of 100 episodes of Mann ki Baat in the exhibition Jana Shakti , heralds a novel way to weaving the power...
View ArticleRiyas Komu’s stirring installation at NGMA
Step into NGMA’s Jana Shakti a tribute to PM Narendra Modi’s Mann Ki Baat 100 episodes and you walk right into Riyas Komu’s stupendous installation Swachh Bharat. Created of two monumental legs with...
View ArticleA banquet of lotus leaves and goddesses in the Babu & the Bazaar exhibition
Only when you step out of lift into the avant garde space of DAG in Delhi do you sense an exploration of essence, a sensorial epoch, and a perception of beautiful Bengal. In the past...
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