Footloose on footpaths

This exhibition captures not only the predicament, but also the dreams and aspirations of those who are often overlooked by society Men cooking their evening meals on the sidewalk or sitting together and playing cards on the pavement. Rushing down the busy streets of the Capital, you surely must have noticed them, but perhaps never […]

Canvases of conscience

A repository of artworks created over seven decades. bound by one common theme — concern for social and political realities Standing tall, his body adorned with countless precious ornaments with currency notes and gold coins strewn across the floor, a blindfolded Lord Kuber is trying hard to find his way, hands outstretched. God of wealth […]

Sketching beyond sight

This exhibition features more than 100 works of an artist who did not give up on his creativity even after he lost his eyesight and went on to become the first major muralist of India Blindness is a new feeling. A new experience, A new state of being’. – Benode Behari Mukherjee. One of the […]

Shaping scrap

Veteran painter Rameshwar Broota has found a new medium and a new source of creativity: sculptures using shredded paper with resin   It all started back in 2016 at the office-cum-studio of Triveni Kala Sangam.   The enormous stacks of waste paper that his shredding machine was generating caught the eye of veteran artist Rameshwar […]

Creativity in transit

The colourful artworks at the new Aqua line metro stations have added life and transformed the stations into something more than just mere transit points in the city Long queues, lack of connectivity, hassle of scanning paper tokens, confusion over issuance of smart cards – commuters at the newly opened Aqua line metro stations have […]

Transcending boundaries

Eight artists of four South Asian nations got together in Kathmandu to create artworks – personal encounters, myths and fables — that are now being exhibited in Delhi Political conflicts, religious tension, socio-economic disputes — the world is no stranger to these frictions when it comes to the relationship of countries sharing borders in South […]

Pottering around

Putting the glaze on pottery is as much a science as an art, as an exhibition at the India International Centre shows Unpredictable — that’s how artist Nandita Jain Mahajan likes to describe her work, nowon display at her first solo exhibition titled ‘Whimsical Glazes’. Nandita says, “Whimsical, in other words, can be described as […]

Mirroring realities

Defying the patriarchal norms of the society, here’s an interactive comic book series featuring a female superhero, who is a rape survivor and is helping acid attack victims Priya is a modern-day comic book superhero. Yet unlike others, she neither wears a cape nor does she have some mighty superpower to show off. She is […]