On this day Paramjit Singh, born in 1935 in Amritsar, has crafted a six-decade career as one of India’s foremost landscape painters, blending realism, abstraction, and mysticism in luminous depictions of nature. Influenced by his Punjab roots and modernist techniques, he evolved from early figuration to transcendent visions of hills, trees, and skies, often capturing […]
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As India’s representative at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2026, Skarma Sonam Tashi is carrying an artistic career advancing at an incredible pace, as well as the spirit of an entire high-altitude culture in Ladakh. Tashi, a sculptor whose materials, philosophy, and form speak forcefully to the ecological and cultural crises of our time, was
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The creative world of Alwar Balasubramaniam, known as “Bala,” spans decades of exciting practice. His techniques, which began with an intense focus on painting and printmaking, evolved dramatically after 2000, when he turned toward sculpture and immersive installations—an ongoing exploration now culminating in his role as India’s representative at the upcoming Venice Biennale. As we
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The Extinction Archive project by artist Kulpreet Singh, produced by KNMA on the view of India Art Fair 2026, depicts animals and plants at peril and spans over 900 endangered species, painted on pesticide-dipped rice paper, making the magnitude and accumulation of what is vanishing clear. This show has attracted the attention of art lovers
On This Day Jogen Chowdhury (born 16th February 1939 is an eminent Indian artist considered one of the most important and seminal figures in the history of postcolonial Indian Art. Jogen knows his painting bonded to Partition, the landscape, folk tales, and figurative and political injustice-motivated compositions. He was born and brought up in an
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India, presenting a curated show at Venice Biennale 2026, one of the most significant exhibitions in the world of contemporary art, with a powerful collective presentation titled ‘Geographies of Distance: Remembering Home’. Five of India’s most vibrant contemporary artists—Alwar Balasubramaniam (Bala), Sumakshi Singh, Ranjani Shettar, Asim Waqif, and Skarma Sonam Tashi—will collaborate on the project,
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“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like” David Alan Harvey As a medium, photography has always maintained its ‘photojournalistic’ ‘news photography’ nature. But Tamil photojournalist and activist Palani Kumar, who uses photography as a tool to give a voice to the ‘voiceless’, sees it beyond its aesthetic appeal and uses it
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On this Day: February 8th is Sakti Burman’s birthday. How do we discover and lay claim to that which is our own? Why do we often come to appreciate the familiar only through the eyes of the other? When the artist Sakti Burman and his French wife Maite Delteil came to India in 1964-65 and
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The artistic questions posed in “Like Gold”, a collateral project of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, such as Cop Shiva’s Being Gandhi, are anything but static depictions; instead, they represent a rigorous re-negotiation of the Indian story. The artworks of “Cop Shiva,” a photographer-artist who works as a police officer during the day, navigate the bureaucracy and
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In Manjot Kaur’s paintings, the lush, liminal world interprets the Indian miniature tradition and seeks novel ways to present it, producing a new lexicon and visual delight. As we know, painting is the art of seeing, and it enlarges and broadens the viewer’s world when engaged with. This is achieved in Kaur’s painting through translating
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