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Santanu Borah talks about the fine line that advice on art walks on Let me tell you a childhood story. I am out with my friend Manoj at Cole Park in Tezpur, Assam. We are at the park to do landscape, armed with papers and watercolours. We decide to paint the lake. As you are […]

Ruby Brahmbhatt Jagrut talks about the versatile artists, who has not only made beautiful paintings but has also directed classic films like Umrao Jaan What makes some people creative powerhouse? There are artists who just do art. Then there are ones who see, live, touch, carry art wherever they are and whatever they do. They

Nidheesh Tyagi tells you why the living through difficult times makes us more human and saves the best of us from the worst of us As the world is talking less about Covid and more about vaccine jabs, it is time to come out of almost a year-long dark depressing tunnel and breathe in the

Santanu Borah dwells on a subject that has been contentious across history: do spirits and contrabands help you make that masterpiece? Like the average individual I like to socialise. In these social events the discussion does veer towards art, though that happens rarely. A large part of socialising, often, results in mild drunken arguments. Sometimes,

Picasso has left the UN building in New York. Ruby Jagrut feels the wall should not be empty and advises the UN to fill it with something young, contemporary and meaningful. She also lists some of her choices For the post World War scenario, it was great to have Picasso\’s Guernica on the panels of

Ranna Parikh talks about the marriage of art and architecture Walter Gropious had famously said, “Architecture begins where engineering ends.” And I couldn’t agree more because everyone has their own visual perception, insight and skill. The sensitivity that an architect/ designer has is developed on a whole new tangent, and that enhances the spatial characteristics

Santanu Borah walks through the maze of artist statements and tries to figure out a statement that can be truly confusing. He also tells you where you can auto-generate beautifully pretentious statements and other such unavoidable things  Hello friends, curators and buyers, My name is Being Real. I am an artist. Painting for the last

That Raza was a small town boy, who took with him the bit of India, culture, words, meanings, shades along with him wherever he went and returned to share everything he had earned through his journey.

Santanu Borah tells you why in order to possess something beautiful you have to give something practical in return  Since I paint often and pretend as best as I can that I am good at it, I understand some of the “interesting” problems that artists face. Without using the jargons that art writers are often