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Transforming the Path of Devotion: Iconic Chita Art Beautifies Puri’s Grand Road for Rath Yatra

News /

Aditya Sisodia As the auspicious occasion of Rath Yatra approaches, the Grand Road facing the Jagannath Temple in Puri, Odisha, is undergoing a magnificent transformation. Spanning a sprawling 4,000 square meters in front of the temple’s lion gate, a group of 25 skilled artists have come together to create giant chita patterns, adorning the path

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Calling for Artists! Shiv Nadar Institute Announces Residency

Opportunities /

Aditya Sisodia Applications are currently being accepted for the highly regarded Artist/Scholar in Residence Program at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence. Recognised for its dedication to research and innovative teaching methods, this program provides a unique chance for artists, scholars, and practitioners in contemporary art, photography, performance, cinema, dance, and writing to engage with a

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How Relevant is Creativity in Times of the AI Revolution?

Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Opinion Feature /

Editor’s Opinion Iftikar Ahmed Discussing what is art is like discussing what happiness is. Or what is life even? it’s everything and nothing at the same time. A few months ago, I came to know about Chat GPT the AI language model developed by OpenAI. It uses deep learning techniques to generate human-like responses and

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Supreme Court Ruling: Andy Warhol’s Prince Illustration Infringed Photographer’s Copyright

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Iftikar Ahmed In a landmark ruling with far-reaching implications for copyright infringement and fair-use law, the Supreme Court has determined that renowned Pop artist Andy Warhol infringed on photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyright when he created an illustration of musician Prince in the 1980s. The court’s decision was supported by seven out of the nine justices,

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Dalit History Month Special: Celebrating the Art and Resistance of Dalit Artists

Columns /

Saptarshi Ghosh Dalit History Month, which is observed every year in the month of April, is meant to recognise and celebrate the struggles and achievements of Dalit communities across the world. It was first observed in 2015 by a group of young Dalit women, including Sanghapali Aruna and Thenmozhi Soundararajan. However, the idea of a

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Digital Memory-making and Reformulated Sites in Akshita Gandhi’s Art

Artist Profile, Opinion Feature /

Satarupa Bhattacharya Photography has undergone several changes since the time of its inception when cameras were a luxury item to ‘memorialise’ family members and their achievements. Today, as we advance into a space with technological boons and banes, we’re still grappling with the ‘imaginary possession of the past that is unreal’. The dilemma in the (un)real

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Khurana’s approach to performance art as a means of social and political transformation

Artist Profile /

Abhishek Kumar ‘Anyone to whom equality is integral is feminist’ — Sonia Khurana Sonia Khurana is a contemporary Indian artist who works across various mediums including video, photography, performance, and installation. Khurana is regarded as one of the leading contemporary artists in India and her work continues to push boundaries and challenge the status quo.

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Carnivalised life and other stories of a performance

Kochi Muziris Biennale /

Krispin Joseph PX Photography is the best tool to capture stillness and ideal to document history as an image. Documentary photography is more into history and documents contemporary life for historical reference. K R Sunil, Kochi-based documentary photographer and visual artist, exhibits his works related to Chavittu Nadakam in Sea, A Boiling Vessel, opened in

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Born on this day: Brassai, ‘The Eye of Paris’ instrumental in establishing Photography as a Fine Art

On This Day /

On this day, 9th of September in 1899, Gyula Halasz was born in Brasso (Brasov), Austria-Hungary (now Romania) to a Hungarian father and Armenian mother. When he was three his family relocated to Paris, where his father worked as a French literature professor at the Sorbonne university. Gyula later went on to attend the Hungarian

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