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Andrea Burgay’s Work in Putting it Together 2023 Exhibition, a Fusion of Fiction, Ruins and Reliquary

Pratiksha shome Andrea Burgay is a visual artist from Syracuse, NY, who currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work blends collage, sculpture and found material, she presents a physical manifestation of the passage of time, destruction and decay, with a sense of potential renewal. Her work was recently included in the exhibition “Putting […]

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Archaeological Collections in Berlin Museums to be Traced Back to Their Origins

A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends

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The Artistic Tagores and Their Global Phenomenon: Rabindranath, Abanindranath and Gaganendranath

Pratiksha Shome The Thakurs of Jorasako have been one of the most influential and celebrated families across Bengal. They made their way to social eminence in the eighteenth century first as employees to the European traders in Bengal and then in the early nineteenth century as business entrepreneurs, landholders, religious leaders, administrators, litterateurs, legal practitioners,

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Negotiating Colonial Aesthetic and Indian Reality: The Prolific Oeuvre of M. V. Dhurandhar

Digvijay Nikam In the late 19th and early 20th century when the Nationalist movement in India was in full sway with the revivalist school of painting in Bengal responding to its current techniques and content that departed from the British academic style, the Bombay artists were producing work that was highly academic in nature. Mahadev Vishwanath

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Italy’s “Open to Meraviglia” Campaign Ridiculed for Reimagining Botticelli’s Venus as a Virtual Influencer

A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends

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The Embroidery of Resistance and Sensuality: Ghada Amer and the Reclamation of Women’s Bodies

Manjeera “I believe that all women should like their bodies and use them as tools of seduction” -Ghada Amer Stitch by stitch, Ghada Amer takes charge and produces artistic works that aim to create an aesthetic language specific to women, reclaiming their bodies from the male gaze and reinterpreting their existing relationship with religion, society

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