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The Making of a Craftsman: Samvaad with Jaya Jaitly (Part II of VI)

Featured, Samvaad / 06/07/2023

Welcome to Samvaad, where art meets conversation, and inspiration knows no bounds. Here we engage in insightful conversations with eminent personalities from the art fraternity. Through Samvaad, Abir Pothi aims to create a platform for thought-provoking discussions, providing readers with an exclusive glimpse into the creative processes, inspirations, and experiences of these creative individuals. From […]

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Zhang Huan’s Family Tree: Does Culture Smother the Individual?

Columns, Featured / 06/07/2023

The constant conflict between the self and what lies beyond the self is a recurring theme in art. The untouched and unknowable aspects of the private identity may sometimes mix with the constructed nature of culture in odd ways. Yet even these interactions between the two contributes to who an individual becomes- perhaps even subverting

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Saved or Sold: Diego Rivera’s Mural Stuck at the San Francisco Art Institute

News / 05/07/2023

Despite earlier claims that the artwork will be saved rather than sold, the status of Diego Rivera’s cherished mural at the San Francisco Art Institute is still up in the air. Tuesday saw the announcement from Cushman & Wakefield that it will be selling the SFAI site. The renowned art school shut its doors in

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Newly Reopened Guild Hall Showcases the photography of Renee Cox

News / 05/07/2023

Renee Cox, a Jamaican-American photojournalist, waited for canonization for three decades. But she had already let that all go as she sat in the middle of her brand-new performance, “Proof of Being,” at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York. It was a change in me brought on by a breakdown in Indonesia. Cox, who

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The Almost Lost Tradition of Kashmir’s papier mache art

Featured, Room For More Art / 05/07/2023

The tradition of papier mache has had a long cultural lineage, and its history is linked with the formation of ethnic and religious identities in Kashmir. The beginning of the craft of papier mache is closely associated with the advent of Islam in Kashmir. Islam came to Kashmir in gradual significant phases, and spread mostly

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After 42 Years, Belgian Gallery Giant Zeno X will Close its Doors.

News / 04/07/2023

Zeno X, an Antwerp-based gallery that worked to increase the visibility of well-known artists like Luc Tuymans and Jack Whitten, will shut down at the end of this year after 42 years in existence. Zeno X was established in 1981 by Frank Demaegd and Eliane Breynaert and quickly rose to prominence in the Belgian art

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Naked body as Art: Carolee Schneemann and Her Sexual Liberation

Artist Profile, Do You Know? / 04/07/2023

The Telluride Film Festival asked the American artist Carolee Schneemann to deliver a schedule of films made by women in 1977, including her own Fuses (1964–1977) and Plumb Line (1968–1971). When Schneemann arrived, she discovered that the show now had a name: The Erotic Woman. Schneemann abandoned her prepared introduction and instead recited a scroll

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Benodbihari Mukherjee: A Blind Artist and his Lost Scroll found after a Century

News / 03/07/2023

Born in 1904, Benodebehari Mukherjee had severe myopia in one eye and was completely blind in the other. At age 53, he completely lost his vision. Mukherjee, a painter of landscapes and frescoes, passed away in 1980 after producing ground-breaking works. In the 20th century, he came to define contemporary art in India as a

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John Constable: Man with the Meticulous Eye for Landscapes

Columns / 01/07/2023

John Constable was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk to a merchant who dealt with corn, coal, and farming on June 11, 1776. He gave a considerable amount of time and effort towards creating paintings of the nearby scenery, particularly the places that reminded him of his carefree childhood. According to him, these experiences were instrumental in

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The Coming Out of Queer photographer Mengwen Cao as She Talks About Marginalization, Family and Work

News / 23/06/2023

It’s a very personal—yet typical—experience to come out to your family as LGBT. Mengwen Cao had the procedure in 2016, making a video to show their parents on FaceTime, recording the call, and afterwards transforming the tape into an artwork titled Here We Are. The call concludes with the artist’s father saying, “We can accept

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