Experiences
The 19th Venice Architecture Biennale has a distinctly sci-fi feel, thanks to all the futuristic ideas and experiments on display
A quick internet search on Subodh Gupta is enough to fill your screen with a treasury of stunning works of art. With almost two decades of creating larger-than-life masterpieces using the humble bartan (kitchen utensil) and exhibiting at some of the most prestigious museums and art galleries of the world, the artistic genius has returned […]
“Where are you from?” If there is one question that you can ask someone who has moved cities that will almost guarantee a long heavy sigh followed by an even longer soliloquy, it would be this. As someone who hails from Kolkata and subsequently forayed to the “big cities” of Bengaluru and now, Mumbai, I […]
If you think keenly enough, photographs are portals to a world, where the vocabulary of our universal languages doesn’t exist. And with black and white imageries on the moodboard, photographs sans colour reignite a gentle but an almost searing moment of awareness that lingers in the memory long after one has experienced it. Cue, Sky […]
ELLE DECOR India saunters through Frieze Art Fair in London with MISHO’s creative director, Suhani Parekh, who takes us through the fair’s 20th anniversary show laying out a vivid palette of South Asian artists and their art. Since its inception, MISHO has made a name for itself as a globally revered and award-winning design studio. […]
As people evolve, so do their surroundings. The space we occupy now is vastly different from that of our ancestors in both its form and function. This poses a question: How do ancient crafts keep up with this whirlwind of change? Kaash Foundation explores this question and unearths new facets of established traditions in its latest […]
The economist turned painter, known for her sense of individualism, Nayanaa Kanodia is a pioneer of the genre of L’Art Naif in India. Exhibiting her latest selection of artwork, later this month, at the famed Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai, her style is well known and characterised as having an air of whimsy with flat, […]
Arboretum, a month-long exhibition at Nature Morte, the gallery at Dhanmill, showcases works of the Delhi-based dynamic art duo Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra. Literally meaning ‘botanical garden’, Arboretum is a collection full of green foliage with artistic glitch-like distorted pixels. A big part of reliving the past moments, and surviving the pandemic without any […]
“If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens” – Rumi Maneesha Doshi’s latest work Weaving Worlds presented at 079 | Stories in Ahmedabad urges its spectators to consider paintings as organic entities similar to that […]
Movement is hypnotising. In the ways an element manoeuvres with a certain resounding rhythm, it absorbs your attention completely. For Rimzim Dadu, one of India’s trailblazing fashion designers, this sense of movement finds a galvanic life in her luxurious garments. Who knew the strength of ‘steel’ could be flattened and flattered into a limber textured […]
Evolution, a word that describes the very nature of our existence and of earth translates into an art show that has us thinking about the essence of architecture and design, deep and beyond. Recently, the map of Mumbai and its art arena was yet again abuzz with a showcase of an insightful furniture exhibition by […]
