Masters in Making: Reweaving the Future of Heritage
By: Chahat Sharma What does it mean to keep a tradition alive? Is preservation about holding on to a practice […]
A Living, Unfinished Sentence: Loredana Pazzini Paracciani on Across Words and the Many Voices of Timor-Leste at the Venice Biennale
A Living, Unfinished Sentence: Loredana Pazzini Paracciani on Across Words and the Many Voices of Timor-Leste at the Venice Biennale […]
Ahmedabad Cultural Week Returns for Its Second Edition, Bringing Art and Ecology into Conversation
From 23 October to 1 November 2026, Ahmedabad Cultural Week brings together 18 cultural spaces across the city, exploring the […]
Threads of Continuum: The Makers, Materials and Knowledge Keeping Heritage Alive
By Bhavya Balamurali Every evening, just outside Alliance Française de Delhi, the red-necked ibises arrive. They come in flocks, hundreds […]
Durga Puja 2026: When Kolkata Becomes a Living Canvas
By Gouravi Every year, as autumn arrives in Kolkata, the city begins to transform. The streets become brighter, neighbourhoods become […]
Loved worldwide, overlooked where it originated: The story of Kalighat Patachitra
By Gauravi The Synthesis of Sacred Motifs, Social Satire, and Visual Evolution in Kalighat Pattachitra Kalighat Patachitra, a distinctive and […]
The Death of the Spectacle: Why the Venice Biennale Is Intentionally Boring This Year
By Kanishka As the 2026 Venice Biennale steps away from Instagram-friendly spectacle, it asks visitors to slow down and look […]
Masters in Making: Reweaving the Future of Heritage
By: Chahat Sharma What does it mean to keep a tradition alive? Is preservation about holding on to a practice […]
A Grammar of Leaving and Belonging: Inside Domus Diasporica, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale
By Bhavya Balamurali Stories of everyday life move alongside forests, birds, animals and trees in Mayank Singh Shyam’s canvases, intertwining […]
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An Ode to Arpita Singh: The Artist who turned Domestic Life, Memory and Protest into Visual Poetry – Bhavya Balamurali […]
THE LOST M.F. HUSAIN CANVAS THAT SHATTERED GLOBAL NEW YORK
By Kanishka How does a 14-foot masterpiece from independent India end up quietly hanging in a private hospital corridor in […]
Why Do We Call Some Films Art and Others Entertainment?
A film becomes “art” less through genre or subtitles than through the choices it makes in a single scene — […]
Mayank Singh Shyam and the Inheritance of Jangarh Kalam
By Bhavya Balamurali Stories of everyday life move alongside forests, birds, animals and trees in Mayank Singh Shyam’s canvases, intertwining […]
The Many Lives of M. F. Husain
By Bhavya Balamurali Maqbool Fida Husain is one of the most recognizable names in Indian Modernism. With a career spanning […]
Review of Emily Jacir’s India debut Exhibition: Where We Come From.
By Sudipto Mullick Despite an urgent theme, meticulous structuring, and incisive inquiries, what sometimes truly crystallizes an activist documentary are […]
Beyond the Walls: How online galleries are bringing Indian art to the world
By Disha Roy Choudhury Art is no longer limited to a physical gallery; online galleries are redefining how collectors discover […]
Looking at Past Perfect: Two Ways of Seeing Indian Art
By Chahat Sharma and Bhavya Balamurali Walking through Past Perfect was, in many ways, an exercise in looking. The exhibition […]
Payal Kapoor and Malvika Poddar on Five Editions of Artix, India’s First Hotel Art Fair
By Bhavya Balamurali An Indian art fair is usually easy to recognize. The format of galleries, booths and artworks arranged […]
Beyond the Human Scale: Himil H. Ramani on Architecture, Media, Ecology, and the Limits of Disciplines
By Bhavya Balamurali What do decaying surfaces of architecture, plants wired to a polygraph machine, and a body of archival […]
The Missing Infrastructure: Aakanksha Singh on Building a Bridge Between Heritage Craft and the Contemporary Home
How Bridge Bharat is rethinking the relationship between India’s living craft traditions and the contemporary market. By Bhavya Balamurali Bridge […]
Threads Across the Mountains: How BOM and sā Ladakh Biennale Are Building Conversations Around Memory, Making and Community
By Chahat Sharma There is a tendency to speak about Ladakh through its landscapes, its towering mountains, vast open skies […]
A Grammar of Leaving and Belonging: Inside Domus Diasporica, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale
By Bhavya Balamurali Every two years, countries arrive in Venice carrying something intensely their own, and by the time it’s […]
Couturier Harpreet Narula Makes His Solo Debut as an Artist with Inward
Couturier and textile designer Harpreet Narula makes his solo debut with Inward, a new exhibition of abstract paintings at Art […]
Who Gets to Tell the Story? Aditi Anand on a decade of Backing the Unheard
By Bhavya Balamurali India makes more films than almost any country in the world, yet women remain underrepresented in its […]
If You Missed Baarish Season 2 | Chapter 1, Here Is Why You Should Not Miss Chapter 2
By Chahat Sharma Baarish has quietly become a festival that transports you into another world. Conceived by Excurators, it is […]
The Stamping Stage: How a River Island Became the Last Living Home of Chavittu Nadakam
How a Latin Christian island community became the keeper of one of Kerala’s most extraordinary, and least understood, theatrical traditions […]
Communities that Preserve India’s Heritage. But Who Is Preserving Them?
By Chhaya Singh The culture of India is usually appreciated through its magnificent structures, vibrant festivals, and classical arts. However, […]
On the Faith of Ishq: The Stories We Return To, From Folklore to Film
By Hrishita Ghosh There is a long and stubborn afterlife to certain kinds of love stories. They return in different […]
A Story Hidden Inside a Wooden Box: India’s Walking Library
By Chhaya Singh A story always requires a storyteller. However, what if a storyteller did not hold a book but […]
The Cinematic Impact of Nana: A Tale of Us
By Faith Mozhui Stories have always been a huge part of the everyday life in the hills of Nagaland but […]
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