‘India has some excellent museums and collections’
Nicholas Coleridge, chairman of Victoria and Albert Museum in London and a veteran fashion journalist, speaks to Bhumika Popli about...
Baroda still brims with promise as an art destination of contemporary India
The city of Baroda has been the nurturing ground for some of the greatest Indian modernists. But even when it...
Sharp focus on climate and ecology at new photography festival in Delhi
Four renowned figures from Indian photography recently led a mentoring programme for four junior photographers. The results are displayed at...
Word of mouth: Oral traditions of the world captured in multimedia art
Astha Butail’s new exhibition includes installation pieces, sculptures, videos and audio clips that collectively make a statement about the cultural importance of...
New film calls for stolen idols to be returned to India
A gripping documentary by Nikhil Singh Rajputt sheds new light on the global black market for antiquities, whose origins can...
British-era Army barracks at Delhi’s Red Fort converted into museums
Five British-era Army barracks at Delhi’s Red Fort have been converted into museums. The barrack museums have been filled with...
‘You could hear an entire orchestra in Vilayat’s sitar’
Journalist and author Namita Devidayal’s biography of the legendary sitar player Ustad Vilayat Khan has just been published. She speaks...
Undaunted by darkness, Mukherjee’s vision always drew towards the light
Ranked among the great modernists of Bengal, Benode Behari Mukherjee was born with partial vision and later in life went...
Food Review: Unlike a regular pub, this one has good food
Fantom Bar & Brewery, located on the upper ground floor of South Point Mall in Gurgaon, is much more than...
With focus on South Asia, India Art Fair is bigger and better than ever before
The 11th edition of India Art Fair, an international gathering of artists, gallerists and curators, opened earlier this week in...
Souza as we never knew him: Paintings from the eventful ’40s part of new show
One of India’s greatest modernists, Francis Newton Souza is celebrated the world over for his multimillion-dollar nudes. But a series...
An artist’s lifelong endeavour to revive as well as reinvent the Madhubani form
Madhubani painter Santosh Kumar Das has many admirers in the West, but he has never had a solo show in...
Between the pages: A new artistic form that uses the book object as its medium
Instead of taking the conventional route, several contemporary Indian artists have attempted a unique creative experiment by choosing the art...
India’s most prominent art collector and her mission to make culture public
Art collector Kiran Nadar now owns more than 5,000 artworks and is the proprietor of two of the biggest private...
Food Review: PizzaExpress: Quality and variety since 1965
It is often true that a warm and cosy place in a Delhi mall is difficult to find. But PizzaExpress...
‘Every serious novel enquires into lives of the marginalised’
Malayalam author Benyamin, whose novel Jasmine Days recently won the JCB Prize for Literature, speaks to Bhumika Popli about how...
Cultural portrait of Bangladesh as seen through the eyes of contemporary artists
Two ongoing shows at different galleries in Delhi feature works by contemporary artists and photographers from Bangladesh, offering a commentary...
This year in the arts: Moments that we will remember for a long time to come
As we begin counting down to the New Year, it’s appropriate to cast a glance back at the bygone year...
Song of the strings
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan mastered the sarod when he was merely a teenager. Today, he is by far the greatest...
Cultural history of trauma: Multimedia show in Delhi on the concept of pain
The photographs, paintings and installation pieces displayed at Days Without a Night, an ongoing show in Delhi, are centred around...
An evening in Delhi with lessons on life and ethics by Dalai Lama
“I would like to speak from here, only if you give me permission,” said the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, while addressing a...
Music in the dots: Jangarh Singh Shyam and the mythic dimensions of his work
Artist Jangarh Singh Shyam was only 40 when he reportedly committed suicide in 2001. A new retrospective of his work...
Howard Hodgkin’s theory of colour and his creative engagement with India
British painter Howard Hodgkin, who died last year, was the subject of a lecture delivered by his longtime partner, the...
Seminar on the meaning, value and cultural significance of art in our time
Young FICCI Ladies Organisation and the Gujral Foundation co-organised a seminar on India’s contemporary art scene earlier this week in...
