Inside Toiletpaper’s largest show, ‘Run As Slow As You Can’, in Mumbai
The cult art & photography magazine’s founders Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari’s investigate “our hyper consumption of imagery”
Books, Art & Design
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room at the NMACC: An escape into the unknown
As one of the Japanese contemporary artist’s Infinity Mirror Rooms debuts in India, here’s a look at what makes them so popular around the world
Where Shanti Dave belongs
India’s original calligraphic abstractionist and co-founder of the Baroda Group, Shanti Dave, gets his first-ever retrospective, with DAG showcasing his work from 1950 to 2014
Milan Kundera—author, dissident, philosopher, lover
Best known for his 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera's impact and influence on the form of a novel, the place of humour and intellectual labour in our lives is more relevant now than ever before. A tribute
How relevant would street art be minus the power of social media?
In the age of the Internet, a viral moment for a work of street art is all it takes for it to get noticed. But how is art, today, more than just its potential to go viral?
The Harry Potter universe at 26: How one woman spawned an unlikely empire
In June 1997, JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was released. No one foresaw the worldwide brand it was about to become
I live and breathe art and heritage, says Sangita Jindal
The JSW Foundation chairperson on her cultural restoration efforts, including the David Sassoon Library and Reading Room at Kala Ghoda, Mumbai
Geopolitics in a rug | Pavitra Rajaram’s carpet collection for Jaipur Rugs
Designer Pavitra Rajaram’s collection for Jaipur Rugs is taking stories of history, syncretism and tradition to the Salone del Mobile
At Mumbai Urban Art Festival, witness the life aquatic
On till February 22, St+Art Foundation’s Mumbai takeover is a must-visit this season
The slow rise of immersive art in India
Is it a gimmick for the Instagram generation or a transformative approach to digital art?
How Netflix’s Qala, a period drama, melds architecture and art to bring a bygone era to life
Production designer Meenal Agarwal and cinematographer Sidharth Diwan relied on Gothic architecture, Art Nouveau and Dutch Golden Age masters to bring alive Anvitaa Dutt’s fantastical fable of darkness and decay.
Sex education influencer Leeza Mangaldas on The Sex Book, sex positivity in India and being an educator among influencers
The popular sex education content creator-turned-author talks about her experiences with talking about sex in a deeply repressed society
India Ink: Meet the indie tattoo artists giving Indian folk and indigenous art a new canvas
From Dori embroidery to Patachitra art, Kolam designs to neo-Naga tribal tattoos, India’s growing tribe of alternative tattoo artists are spotlighting India’s rich heritage on the human body.
India's crypto art king mines the future
As the world around him grapples with the NFT frenzy, Raghava K.K. has been plugged into the metaverse for years, mining one of its greatest promises: getting art to the people
Before K-Pop: A new book takes you into the long history of Korean popular music
You Call That Music?! Is essential reading for every K-Pop fan out there.
India’s most radical architect Vinu Daniel is getting even more radical
Creating poetic structures using local materials is at the core of architect Vinu Daniel’s practice. Now, in the busiest, most fertile phase of his career, he asks: Why are we building at all?
'Bridgerton' Brings the Regency Novel Back Into Fashion – But Did It Ever Go Away?
Is it not, after all, a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a brain and a heart must be in want of a man who’ll take her for what she is – the bane of his existence and the object of his desires?
Father Figure: Q&A with Nikesh Shukla
Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family And Home is British author Nikesh Shukla's moving manifesto for raising children in a bipolar world. But, in it, you can also find catharsis and possibilities for a redefined masculinity, and ideas on what it means to be a feminist father, as he tells Nidhi Gupta
Please turn over to Sameer Kulavoor
With his new solo show "You're All Caught Up", visual artist Sameer Kulavoor talks to Nidhi Gupta about deploying his considerable skills with the paintbrush and keen eye for irony to reassess a world and the self in crisis
Brave New World
Not all art has to be political, but visual artists have always sought to reflect the environment they work in: To chronicle, respond and offer escape. Meet eight contemporary artists, under the age of 40, from the Indian Subcontinent, who are skillfully wielding their paintbrushes and digital pens to reckon with everything: from climate change to social inequality, tradition and future technologies. Ones for the wall
Salman Toor's Masterstroke
“In the past, my paintings were more about life in South Asia, the anxiety around class and caste,” says the Pratt Institute alumnus, who left Pakistan in the early 2000s to study art at Ohio Wesleyan. Now, he seeks to offer an intimate view into the lives of queer, brown men living in the US and South Asia.
Light Source
Since 2012, visual artists and animation duo Wolves have been running at the intersection of art, music and technology, elevating your favourite musician's live gig to a higher plane. As their work goes worldwide, this is what the big picture looks like, from where Joshua D'Mello and Jash Reen stand
As the beloved Japanese brand Uniqlo opens doors in India, ageless cool is yours for the taking
Still, “we’re never going to design clothes for hype,” says John C Jay, President of Global Creative for Fast Retailing. Over a video-conference call from Portland, Oregon, Jay is reiterating what every employee, manager and designer we’ve met at Uniqlo so far has said to us: “We wouldn’t make disposable clothing either. We draw our inspiration from the power of everyday people.”
Reel people, real places with The Sartorialist
The Sartorialist's Scott Schuman puts the spotlight on India and its innately stylish humans in his new book of photography with Taschen
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