All about her

In the run-up to International Women’s Day, you can watch sensitive portrayals of the Female Gaze at the Asian Women’s Film Festival A chain-smoker, Falaknaaz soils her hands dirty toiling out on the fields and doubling as the local electrician whenever the power is out in a small Iranian village. 60-year-old Oum Karim goes to […]

Spotlight on Mizoram

This exhibition showcases the work of 14 veterans and budding contemporary artists with the aim of bringing Mizo art into the contemporary art scene of India Situated in the far northeast corner of the country, Mizoram has its own indigenous repository of art that is yet to be acknowledged in the mainstream contemporary art scene […]

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 […]