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Make Me a Summary of the World: Rina Banerjee’s carnivalesque sculpture installations

Artist Profile, Featured / March 25, 2023

Digvijay Nikam Migration – forced and otherwise – of humans and of objects, entangled with the questions of ethnicity and race, is the defining feature of the modern globalized world. “How should art respond to it?” is the question that the diasporic artist Rina Banerjee tries to probe through her work. Born in 1963 in …

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Figurative Expressionism: Emilio Cruz and his explorations of humanity

On This Day / March 15, 2023

Manjeera March 15, ON THIS DAY Naturally many may naively and rambunctiously ask why would a black artist concern himself with the wider questions of art and humanity? …my answer is art and ideas belong to no particular people exclusively. If they did this art has failed to reach the transcendent state that artists have …

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Through the lens of empathy: Diane Arbus, the photographer of the margins

On This Day / March 14, 2023

Manjeera March 14, ON THIS DAY “I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” ― Diane Arbus The lens is a very powerful tool. It has the ability to capture and record realities for the future, document what is …

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