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Celebrating Madhubani Art: INTACH Mangaluru Chapter and Art Kanara Trust hosts Two Day Madhubani Workshop Cum Exhibition

Smriti Malhotra The Mangaluru Chapter of INTACH and the Art Kanara Trust in Mangaluru, Karnataka organised a two-day Madhubani painting workshop and exhibition by Shravan Paswan on 25th and 26th April 2023. Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage has vast chapter networks across the country that are constantly working towards heritage conservation […]

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Emmanuel Lenain: Flavours Of Cyanotype Or The Visual Feast

Krispin Joseph PX Cyanotype is now a familiar technique to transform something into a bluish tone with random abstract patterns as their thin strands of seaweed. Cyanotype is used for many and various reasons by photographers and artists, creating a visual experience that is only occasionally part of fine art visual culture. These two century-old

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\’Curators are not mouthpieces for artists; nor do artists have to put forth the vision of a curator\’

Art curator and entrepreneur Satyajit Dave breaks down his approach to the academics behind art, and discusses with Abir Pothi how artists and curators can collaborate best, whether the art world is an exclusionary club, and if Indian art is free of the shackles of looking to the West Tell us a bit about yourself.

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This could be a bit disturbing: Hans Holbein\’s portrayal of mortality through a macabre visual puzzle

Adversity is also a mother of art. The Pothi team brings to you some of the macabre and some solace in the form a beautiful farewell song. At first look, The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger seems like a regular painting of its time. But look at little closer, and the subtle macabre of

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How are artists dealing with the deadly dance of Covid: A Zoom tete-e-tete

The Pothi team had a Zoom meeting with Abir artists to understand how they were negotiating the surge in covid-19 and the ensuing lockdown because of it. While they do have a positive outlook that the pandemic will eventually be tamed, the immediate reality of their lives have been thrown off kilter for now. While

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While art events in many contemporary galleries are addressing problems of gender and caste, most of what I see appears to be emulating the West: Pronoy Chakraborty

The Pothi team speaks to Pronoy Chakraborty, a young curator who the place you show art in helps recontextualise the entire idea It is said that the old must give way to the new. It isn’t to say that what the past brought before you is not important. In fact, we sit on the shoulders

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The \”art world\” is an exclusive club and it needs to be disrupted, says critic and curator V. Divakar

In the fourth installment of this six part series, art critic and curator V. Divakar talks about the \”exclusive artists\” who have hijacked the real art that happens across India. In conversation with Santanu Borah. Read Part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here In order to understand what disruption in art means, it

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