Registrations for the inaugural CII Banaras Biennale, a month-long, city-wide cultural platform that takes Banaras as its central subject is open now. Titled “KASHI / LIGHT — The City as Sensorium”, the Biennale will run from 27 November to 31 December 2026 across Varanasi, weaving together visual art, textiles, craft, music, performance, scholarship and public […]
This week, my feed has been flooded with the never-ending celebration of the Bayeux Tapestry being on view in Britain. The New York Times published a feature on the years of behind-the-scenes diplomacy it took to bring perhaps the most famous textile in the world across the Channel, reporting that a senior British culture official
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Arya Lalu is a self‑taught designer working at the intersection of craft and furniture, shaping home decor where wood is both structure and story. Her brand Lallu crafts brings together regional craft traditions of south India with contemporary furniture forms, resulting in pieces that feel rooted yet modern. Her design language treats heritage techniques as
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On Janmashtami, temples and homes across India fill with images of Krishna. Various iterations and interpretations of Lord Krishna from that of a mischievous toddler to an eternal lover has graced Indian visual culture for many generations. Few figures in Indian mythology have inspired as vast and varied a visual legacy. Across two thousand years,
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ON THIS DAY: Celebrating the 170th birth anniversary of Louis Henry Sullivan On this day in 1856, in Boston, Massachusetts, a boy was born who would go on to reshape the American skyline and give architecture one of its most enduring ideas. Louis Henry Sullivan, remembered today as the “father of skyscrapers” and, to many
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In today’s design world, furniture is no longer just for sitting or storing things. It is about feeling, memory, and how people live with objects day after day. This idea sits at the heart of Intent Made, a studio founded by Swetha Vegesana. Intent Made comes from an architectural way of thinking. Every object connects
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What happens after the invention of Photography? In the age of smartphones, everybody is a shutterbug, and millions of images are produced and distributed daily on the web. Today the world celebrates Photography Day through photos captured in worlds the most valued cameras and smartphones. Historically, Photography is only affordable for some; now, anyone can
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Kushal Ray’s journey into photography is as unconventional as it is compelling. Born in Kolkata in 1960, he began his career as a sports journalist at The Telegraph before turning to photography full-time in the early 1990s. Self-taught yet deeply informed by observation and empathy, he quickly developed a visual vocabulary that diverged from prevailing
Welsh rock photographer Justin Thomas has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in New York against American painter Elizabeth Peyton, alleging she copied his 1995 photograph of Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher for a painting that sold at auction for $1.92 million in May 2026. The Photograph and the Painting The dispute centres on a
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Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese avant-garde artist whose obsessive dots, pumpkins and mirror rooms made her one of the most recognisable figures in contemporary art, has died at 97. Her studio announced on 27 August that she passed away on 14 August 2026 at a hospital in Tokyo; no cause of death was disclosed in the
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