“Varanasi feels like a very queer city to me,” says artist Debashish Paul, speaking of his adopted home where he presently lives and works since finishing his Masters’ in sculpture from the Banaras Hindu University in 2021. For his first solo exhibition, A Thousand Years of Dreaming, at Kolkata’s Emami Art, he channels “the playfulness, colours […]
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Over the last few months, we have been seeing international design trends mirror Indian concerns for upcycling and a focus on neutral, natural colours. Globally too, stone, especially marble is a favourite for its colour and textures, and it is often used in different ways — to create craft-forward pieces and monolithic forms. In India, […]
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One of the portraits from Vanessa Meister’s ‘Woman’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Kochi-based Swiss designer and creative consultant Vanessa Meister brought 100 of her portraits together in a show, ‘Woman’, held recently at the David Hall Art Gallery in Fort Kochi. The portraits turned the conventional concept of beauty on its head. “All these […]
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Varsha and Tina with the quilts which are to be exhibited | Photo Credit: S Poorvaja In varying shades of purple and green, each quilt spread out at The Square Inch, a quilting studio in Chennai, has a story to tell. There is a butterfly hovering around an intricately embroidered flower on one, and a […]
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Michael Anastassiades | Photo Credit: Special arrangement When Michael Anastassiades visited India last December, to be part of a panel with Studio Mumbai’s Bijoy Jain at the AD Design Show 2022, he had said, “People feel very insecure in the absence of light.” So, when I got a chance to speak with him, we discussed […]
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Benode Behari’s handscroll on display at the Durbar Hall Art Gallery | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat Bengali artist Benode Behari Mukherjee told filmmaker Satyajit Ray, his former student at Santiniketan, when he was working on The Inner Eye, a documentary on the artist: “If you wish to look for my spirit, the basic essence of […]
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Sunita Meena at the event. | Photo Credit: special arrangement From the earliest examples of prehistoric rock paintings to the 16th century murals at the royal palace in Bundi, Rajasthan, right up to the graffiti street art of today — the impulse to decorate walls has always existed throughout human history. In fact, across India, […]
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Ina and Anastasiia Reshetnyk (mother and daughter) fled the war in Kyiv. Ina is a doctor who was running her own practice with her husband in Kyiv, Ukraine. Anastasiia is a journalism student and is continuing her studies remotely. | Photo Credit: Saurabh Narang Portraits of Ukrainian refugees photographed by Germany-based Indian photographer Saurabh Narang […]
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Sagar Srivastava, 33, has been fascinated by maps ever since he was a young boy. His father, who was in the merchant navy, would regularly bring home huge navigational chartbooks and tell him about countries around the world. “I started sketching maps on anything I could get my hands on,” the aspiring filmmaker recalls. Today, […]
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Antique vessels at Paatre | Photo Credit: Meera Naidu It is a teardrop-shaped sandesher chaanch. Chaitali Datta, an architect from Kolkata, inherited it from her mother-in-law who got it from her mother. In black clay with embossed designs, the moulds were used to make sandesh imprinted with intricate floral designs. Datta does not make the […]
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