CATEGORIES

Three Robust Enquiries

KP Reji, T. Venkanna and Smriti Dixit's new works foreground the freedom to resist, desire and reimagine, discovers Jasmine Shah Varma.

The Ecology of a Crisis

How do artists respond to environmental degradation, damage and disaster? Lajja Shah visits a group show that addresses the catastrophe staring us in the face.

Stitching Images, Weaving Worlds

Six artists seek inspiration from the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri to work across the fault-lines between craft traditions and contemporary practices, discovers Georgina Maddox.

CASTING A SPELL

Nauman Khalid dwells on Ali Kazim's Suspended in Time at the Ashmolean.

The Double

By capturing the life of a stunt man in Kannada films and exploring the adjustments made during film shoots, Amshu Chukki dwells on the leakages between real and cinematic life, finds K Sridhar.

All Eyes on The Prize

Jasmine Shah Varma gives a round-up of this year's Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India.

നൈജീരിയയിലെ ക്രൈസ്തവരുടെ ചോര

പീസ് കോർണർ

music as muse

A multidisplinary visual artist, Aaron Pinto, also known as Kidsquidy, has had an interesting journey that started with MTV and has him now working on everything from music videos to stage design

DEVELOPING A DISCOURSE

Documentary photographer Taha Ahmad believes his work has a greater purpose than merely being admired by a select audience for its esthetic value. It's when people are able to see the underside of society and understand the prevailing social injustice that the work tries to reveal that it is truly worthwhile.

DANGEROUSLY DELICATE

Kavya Potluri's attention to minute detail is what sets her intricate and unconventional jewelry apart

Tiny little Stories

Creating miniature worlds allows Ruchika Nambiar to continue to play childlike games of make-believe

time tested DESIGN

Surrounded by art and architecture as a child, Sarah Sham went on to take the family antiques business in a new direction through her interior design venture

Stories faces tell

Aditya Narula dabbled in various vocations before he realized portraiture was the best way to express the fascinating complexities of the people he encountered along the way

Creating KAIRA

Long fascinated by Indian fabric, Nikita Gupta has launched an attractive line of contemporary apparel in traditional block prints

A Legacy Continues

Leveraging the success of his family's export business, Naman Jain is focusing on creating a retail presence in India

മീഡിയോക്രിറ്റി തിങ്ങിനിറയുന്ന കേരളം

മലയാളികൾ ജീവിതം തേടി പ്രവാസി യായി മാറുന്നത് ദൈവത്തിന്റെ സ്വന്തം നാട്ടിലെ പറുദീസയുടെ മറച്ചു പിടിച്ച നേരിലേക്കാണ് വിരൽ ചൂണ്ടുന്നത്. പലായനം ചെയ്യുന്ന മലയാളി യുവതയും കുടിയേറ്റം നടത്തുന്ന അതിഥിത്തൊഴിലാ ളികളും ഭാവി കേരളത്തോട് എന്തു സംസാരിക്കുന്നു?

എഴുത്തുകാരിയെന്ന നിലയിൽ ഞാൻ അസംതൃപ്തയാണ്

സ്ത്രീപക്ഷം മനുഷ്വ പക്ഷത്തിന്റെ ശാഖയാണ് എന്ന് വിശ്വസിക്കുന്ന എഴുത്തുകാരി. വെറുതെ പറഞ്ഞു പോകാതെ വായനക്കാരുടെ മനസ്സിനെ പൊള്ളിക്കുന്ന കഥകൾ തേടിപ്പോകുന്ന എഴുത്തുരീതി. മതവും രാഷ്ട്രീയവു മൊക്കെ സ്ത്രീവിരുദ്ധത എത്രമാത്രം അനുവദിച്ചു കൊടുക്കുന്നുവെന്ന തിരിച്ചറിവ്. സ്ത്രീ ജീവിതത്തിന്റെ തീക്ഷ്ണയാഥാർത്ഥ്യങ്ങൾ ഗ്രേസി കണ്ടെത്തുന്നു.

Roles People Play

Performance art in India has come of age in Delhi, claims Meera Menezes, as she engages with the work of inspired practitioners from the city.

Moulting Skin, Growing Hands

Photography is borrowing from sculpture, painting, fiction and cinema to create an expanded field. Shweta Upadhyay reports about contemporary Indian photographers and their new interventions.

Curatorism: In Praise of Folly

Even as their interventions influence standards of assessment, their choices may not always do justice to complex art practices, argues Girish Shahane, as he sheds light on the new status of curators in the context of contemporary art.

Art in Exile?

Johan Pijnappel traces the journey of video art in India and raises some poignant questions.

"A GREAT BOON TO THE INDIAN ART WORLD"

Gieve Patel remembers how an adventurous approach helped win more readers for the magazine.

WHEN MANJIT BAWA BROKE INTO A JIG

Anupa Mehta, the Founding Editor of ART India paints a vivid picture of the early years.

The Thing Itself

Arjun Appadurai examines the aesthetic life of objects and reveals how their status and behaviour changes with altering circulation patterns and socio-political contexts.

Spectres of the Real

Geeta Kapur presents varied readings of Ranbir Kaleka's Man Threading a Needle, a work which combines the painted image with video and sound.

The Mutable Aesthetic of New Mediatic Realism

Nancy Adajania engages with the new turn in contemporary Indian art and provides the socio-political and aesthetic contexts to critique its manoeuvres and developments.

"WHEN THE "IT'S IN THE MAIL" EXCUSE FOR MISSED DEADLINES HAD NOT GONE EXTINCT!"

Girish Shahane reminisces about how he marshalled the magazine to explore contemporary art.

A Dozen Ways of Viewing India

Ranjit Hoskote provides an account of the way art in India has, over the decades, reflected and questioned the state of the nation.

Flesh and Bone

Abhay Sardesai considers the contract between word and image in the works of eight artists.

Good Earth

Sandhya Bordewekar discusses the growth of ceramic art practices in the country.