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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

Ruby Jagrut, Founder of Abir Space talks about her journey with this initiative so far.

Nidheesh Tyagi invokes the lesser known world of Gond tribal art to tell you about the bridge we are building 

Santanu Borah tells you why Abir Pothi is needed, pandemic or no pandemic If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it is that we cannot sit on our couches and believe that life will be the same always because your wifi and mutual funds are working. Just when everything seems perfect, you will get

Architect and ace interior designer Ranna Parikh doles out a quick overview about art, design, colour and their sum total that makes up her life Ever wondered why ‘heart’ has the term art, in it?! That’s exactly what art means to me. Art equals coloúr and color equals joy… as a corollary, art equals joy!