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On his birth week, the Abir Pothi team pays tribute to the artist who had the guts to be what he was before it was fashionable in India Imagine it is 1981. Less than two years after the first ‘Coming Out Day’ was celebrated by the LGBTQ+ community on October 14, 1979. And you have […]
How Bhupen Khakhar came out as gay through his painting ‘You Can’t Please All’ Read More »
March 12, On This Day One of Bengal’s foremost artists Described by leading contemporary artist MF Husain once as “the best painter in India”, Ganesh Pyne was born in 1937, and passed away at the age of 75 on March 12, 2013. Born in Kolkata, West Bengal, Pyne started as a watercolourist under the Bengal
\’He\’s the best painter in India,\’ MF Husain had said Read More »
March 6, On This Day A record-holding artist After a long and prolific art career and recognition as the ‘Mother of American modernism’, American artist Georgia O’Keeffe passed away on March 6, 1986, just short of a 100 years old. Known for motifs of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes, O’Keeffe holds
A tribute to the \’Mother of American modernism’ Read More »