Seema Kohli’s “Cut From The Same Cloth” exhibition at Bikaner House is a captivating celebration of the female form and its spiritual connection. The show presents a mesmerizing blend of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and installations that explore the cosmic power of femininity. Kohli’s masterful creations interweave daily life, teachings, and spirituality, drawing inspiration from verses of saints and mystics. Her vivid and living artworks, embellished with beads and sequins, portray winged creatures symbolizing cosmic journeys of the soul and mythical beings representing various forms of birth. The artist’s experimental approach and profound narrative create a liberating introspective experience for viewers. The exhibition runs until August 4 at the Center of Contemporary Art, Bikaner House.
A new art exhibition chronicles Indian textiles, which are known to be sustainable. Called Karkhana Chronicles II, the online textile exhibit celebrates sustainability through heritage craft and opens a conversation on the revival of traditional knowledge and practices in the Indian fashion industry; Boutet de Monvel portraits of HH Maharaja Yeshwantrao II
Check out Contagion, a virtual multidisciplinary event that explores the concept of transmission, through viruses, human emotions, art, dance and more Although the world is currently battling the COVID- 19 crisis, we as a society have dealt with a host of other contagions in the past as well. You can learn more about this through […]
Sotheby’s is proposing to give greater market visibility to female artists by organising an online session entitled (Women) artists, from 20 to 27 May 2021. But some see this initiative as a form of discrimination. The initiative, which claims to celebrate “contributions by women to art history across 400 years”, risks further consolidating the gender gap difference, or even worse, reducing women’s place in […]
The nearly two-and-a-half-month-long event is spread across five heritage venues in Alappuzha — The Kerala State Coir Corporation, New Model Society Building, Port Museum, Eastern Produce Company Ltd and William Goodacre & Sons Pvt Ltd and one in Ernakulam, The Durbar Hall Art Gallery More than a year after the pandemic crippled the art sector,a contemporary art […]
NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens are touted to be the digital route of acquiring collectible, similar to how Bitcoin was to currency. Now, the introduction of NFTs has been massive for artists as its made it far more inclusive than it ever was since art (in any form) is no longer restricted by medium. The onset […]
The last several quarters have seen the art world record astronomical auction prices for pieces by masters. Galleries such as Saffronart, Pundoles and others have seen collectors pay unprecedented prices for works.Ashvin Rajagopalan, director of the Piramal Foundation of Art, says that “Production of artworks was initially limited. But now artists are working on paintings in small […]
Artist and the President of Kochi Biennale Foundation brings together a larger-than-life show titled Lokame Tharavadu that poses questions about our ideas of home, surroundings and the world Art can inspire, it can uplift and can surely bring a community together. With this thought in mind, Bose Krishnamachari of the Kochi Biennale Foundation set out […]
A generous teacher and influential artist, Alphonso Arul Doss who just passed away, had a mastery over oils, defining his own ‘line’ with light, time and space With the passing of veteran artist, Alphonso Arul Doss (1939-2021) yet another star of the Madras Movement passed into the night sky. Through his lustrous paintings with their […]
