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It might be called ‘The Gram’, but it’s worth a TON of exposure. Instagram has always been all about visual impact, and it’s where you find some of the finest artists in the world today, from the heavyweights to the hidden talent. Abir Pothi embarks on a series that will highlight the best of Instagram […]
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Abhishek Kumar Knowledge can be gained at any age. After having a detailed study on topics there are things unknown to us. So, we at Abirpothi present before you the lesser-known facts about artists around the world. Banksy “The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious,
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Abhishek Dixit Through his work, Bikash uses metaphorical methods to define realities in the subtlest of ways. His whole imagination is taken into account by evaluating one of the most symbolic works. Known as one of India’s best-known surreal artists, Bikash Bhattacharjee’s works meticulously highlighted the daily lives of Bengali residents. He exhibited a great
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Rajesh Kumar As a society, are we heading towards a tangled reality? Are we forgetting the plain and the simple that make up our life? To deconstruct the complexities that plague the human existence, Jitha Karthikeyan has curated a group show titled ‘Measures of Lucidity’ that includes paintings, drawings and video installations of some of
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Saptarshi Ghosh In what appears to be a still from a 1950s black-and-white film noir, a masked woman donning a black hat sits at a table in a cafe, looking directly at the viewer. She reappears in an oleograph purportedly printed in 1908 by the famed colonial-era Calcutta Art Studio, but this time in the
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Abhishek Kumar There have been many artworks throughout history that have challenged the traditional norms of the art world and changed the way we think about art. Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain”, Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian”, “Shredded Girl” by Banksy and Joseph Kosuth’s “One and Three Chairs” are some of the examples which changed the dynamics of the
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Aliya Usmani “A Humument”: What is it? Tom Philips started working on something called the “A Humument” in the year of 1966 which is till date considered one of the most popularly known works of blackout poetry. The story goes that Tom Philips and R. B. Kitaj walked into a furniture shop and said “the
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Christopher Charles Benninger On the morning of 24th January Balkrishna Doshi left his body and continued on his journey, leaving us both memories of a man and an IDEA. I believe very special people are implanted in our memories at birth. So even before the first time we meet them it is a kind of
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The natural Afro-textured hair, or kinky hair, of African-origin people has long been an issue of cultural pride and civil rights (the latter especially for African-Americans, amid a long history of slavery and issues of ghettoisation and persistent violence by law enforcement authorities). The hiding of this naturally voluminous, dense, curly hair to conform with
Jharkhand, the land of forests, gained statehood in the year 2000. It shares its borders with Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. 30% of its population is tribal and the land is known for its hills, waterfalls and holy places. Chau, Santhali, Mundari and Jhamair are popular folk dances. Folk art is commonly
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