From vernacular crafts to designer intervention, India’s textile referencing to Mahatma Gandhi has only grown in heft and weft
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A new crop of artists is reinventing botanicals
And you don't need a green thumb to collect them.
At 86, Arpita Singh continues to feel the urge to paint every day
A soothing colour palette and floating figures lend a certain whimsicality to Arpita Singh’s paintings, but their perceived is loaded with meaning.
TARQ has a charming new home
This Mumbai art gallery opens its new space with Sameer Kulavoor’s thought-provoking exhibition, ‘Edifice Complex’.
T. Venkanna’s erotically charged artworks actually relay a crucial message
The artist’s ferociously beautiful artworks hint at his prodigious brilliance.
BHARTI KHER: THE PEOPLE WATCHER
Bharti Kher’s fantastical creatures are truth-tellers, hewn out of a reality we tend to overlook or rarely acknowledge. The remarkable artist, known for her larger-than-life installations and head-turning sculptures, talks about her work.
Small Wonder
Pakistani printmaker Bushra Waqas Khan’s convention-stripping, doll-sized gowns are deeply layered in form and meaning, discovers Radhika Iyengar.
Is this the most important Indian art exhibit of the season?
Shifting Selves, an art exhibit by Sarmaya Arts Foundation in collaboration with TARQ Art Gallery, is having an unflinching conversation about identity and belonging
India’s Vibrant and Idiosyncratic Truck Art
The drivers go to great lengths to beautify their trucks, which are also their homes
This collection of miniature paintings gives a peek into the sensuality of 16th-19th century Indian art
It’s the book art connoisseurs cannot get enough of—Court & Courtship features a collection of miniature paintings from erudite textile collector-couple, Praful and Shilpa Shah’s TAPI collection, and is a window into the bold, sensual representation in 16th-19th century art
The Immortality of Absence
Artworks left behind by artists who have passed on serve as quiet vestiges, revealing facets of an artist’s lived life or demeanor. Their ghosts, therefore, remain in our presence, forever etched in our collective memory
On a Wider Canvas
Exhibitions to mark in your calendar: From Mrinalini Mukherjee’s eccentric organic sculptures—to Pakistani artist Salman Toor’s Indian debut; there is much to look forward to in the coming six months
Living to tell the tale
Sotheby’s first-ever Mumbai auction features works by modernists, including a rare piece by Amrita Sher-Gil
Reena Kallat: I wanted to use nature to demonstrate how we could co-habit
Artist Reena Kallat’s latest exhibition, ‘Earth Families’, is a proposition for a unique future
Are Artists from the 1970s still relevant today?
Ana Mendieta and Betty Tompkins' works were recently exhibited in Chelsea's art galleries. Why are their works still relevant? What pulls art aficionados to their work even today?