On this day On 17 October, the Indian art world remembers Lalita Lajmi (also spelled Lalitha Lajmi). She was a painter whosedetermination outlasted decades of being overlooked. Born on 17 October 1932 in Calcutta, she passed away on 13 February 2023 at the age of 90. Over a career of more than sixty years, she […]
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Dr. Suresh Sheth, a renowned painter, writer, and art critic from Gujarat, passed away on September 26, 2026, at the age of 88. His passing came as a shock to Gujarat’s art community. Sheth taught painting, art history, and aesthetics at the C.N. College of Fine Arts for several decades and held numerous solo exhibitions
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The story of Kusama is fascinating for many reasons. She studied traditional Japanese painting style and moved to New York in 1958, inspired by American Abstract Impressionism, became a part of the Avant-Garde movement, especially pop art, hugging hippie culture in the 1960s, got public attention when she exhibited herself as brightly coloured polka dots
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We are currently in the midst of many wars. While the Russia-Ukrainian war that started on February 24, 2022, is ongoing, America and Israel together attacked Iran, while Israel’s attacks on Palestinians continue. The response given by writer Arundhati Roy to the question of how to look at the war is noteworthy: “Once weapons were
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Some might know him as Laurie Baker, but for us he will forever be the “Gandhi of Architecture.” Laurie Baker was born in Birmingham and studied architecture at the Birmingham School of Art and Design. During World War II, he served in the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU); a unit of the British Religious Society of
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Born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky in Estonia on February 20, 1901, Louis Kahn became one of the greatest architects of the 20th century after emigrating to the United States. After touring Europe in 1928, Kahn became interested in Medieval architecture, which cemented his architectural identity in his 50s. His style, which broke from early Modernism and was
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Colonialism is considered to no longer exist. It is a system that European countries implemented with profit as the only goal. This is very clearly explained by French-Tunisian writer and essayist Albert Memmi in his book The Coloniser and the Colonised. Since it was implemented solely for profit, the term ‘colonial capitalism’ is also sometimes
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At Mandapo, the artist-led alternative space in Mumbai’s Fort district, Aatish Khobragade’s solo exhibition Empire of the Coin unfolded as a meditation on labour, value, and the emotional weight of survival under capitalism. Curated by art writer and editor Sushama Sabnis, the exhibition brought together large-format circular paintings and a kinetic sculptural installation, extending Khobragade’s
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In 1947, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British barrister who had never visited India before, was commissioned to delineate a line bifurcating British India. He was handed outdated maps and obsolete census data to divide the country primarily based on religious demographics. A few weeks later, on August 17th, the Radcliffe Line was announced, formalising the
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We are currently in the midst of many wars. While the Russia-Ukrainian war that started on February 24, 2022, is ongoing, America and Israel together attacked Iran, while Israel’s attacks on Palestinians continue. The response given by writer Arundhati Roy to the question of how to look at the war is noteworthy: “Once weapons were
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