Features
In a culture of rapid image consumption, lingering before a single artwork transforms perception. Through sustained attention, details emerge, emotions shift and meaning deepens, revealing how time reshapes not the object itself, but the viewer.
Art History
Was Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring a real person or an imagined ideal? This article explores the mystery behind the iconic painting, separating historical evidence from fiction and examining why her identity still fascinates viewers today.
Art Education
Curators do far more than arrange artworks on walls. Through selection, context, and spatial design, they shape meaning, influence art history, and guide the way audiences interpret and emotionally experience exhibitions.
Features
Failure and repetition are not interruptions to artistic practice but its foundations. This essay explores how artists learn through undoing, persistence, and time, and why long-term practice depends on embracing uncertainty rather than avoiding it.
News
India Art Fair 2026 returns to New Delhi with its most ambitious edition yet, bringing together 135 exhibitors, landmark commissions, performance, design, and city-wide collaborations that reflect the evolving global presence of South Asian art.
Art Education
Is art learned through classrooms or lived encounters? This essay explores where technique ends and experience begins, arguing that meaningful art emerges from the tension between teaching, intuition, history and personal lived reality and reflection.
Know Your Artist
Diego Rivera’s mentorship, political ideals and towering presence profoundly shaped Frida Kahlo’s confidence and cultural outlook, even as she transformed influence into a fiercely independent, intimate and enduring language of modern art.
Opening Ishara House in Kochi, 'Amphibian Aesthetics' brings together twelve artists to reflect on migration, oceanic histories and ecological precarity, proposing amphibious ways of thinking and living across land, water and multispecies worlds.
Christie’s London achieved £45.7 million for 'Exceptional Paintings from the Personal Collection of Prince & Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan', setting a world record for a Mughal masterpiece and redefining the market for Indian and Islamic art.
In his exhibition 'Sprouting Bodies' at Chemould CoLab, artist Umesh S. transforms rage, memory, and agrarian loss into a visceral, multidisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, performance, and installation rooted in Bhojpur’s farming traditions.
In 'Shrines', Abul Hisham reinvents his practice with spectral sanctuaries built from absence and memory. Blending Indian classical traditions with European influences, his fragmented figures and architectures transform ruins into spaces of fragile devotion and resonance.
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In an age obsessed with novelty, art history remains essential to contemporary practice. It sharpens critical thinking, deepens artistic intent, and enables artists to engage meaningfully with the past while shaping the cultural future.
Why do some museum exhibitions stay with us after we leave? This essay explores how curatorial vision, emotional resonance, design, narrative, and ethical clarity combine to create exhibitions that inform, move, and endure in memory.
Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2026 brings together 33 galleries and six institutional spaces across the city, presenting exhibitions that span material experimentation, memory, urban life and contemporary artistic practice over four days in January.
At the start of a new year, the first mark is not about confidence or resolution. It is an act of trust, reminding us that art begins by choosing to start, imperfectly and without guarantees.
In a world of constant speed and distraction, slow looking invites us to pause, observe deeply, and reconnect with art. By spending time with images, we rediscover attention, empathy, and a more reflective way of thinking.
Qatar Museums and Mumbai’s Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre launch a five-year partnership introducing museum-in-residence education programmes, bringing playful, cross-cultural learning models to schools and communities across India and Qatar.
The starving artist myth romanticises poverty as proof of creative authenticity. This article explores its Romantic origins, historical inaccuracies and lasting impact on how artists are valued, paid and supported today.
Composition shapes how a painting is seen and felt. This guide explains core principles, from focal points and balance to rhythm and depth, helping artists arrange elements with clarity, intention and expressive impact.
Doug Aitken’s UNDER THE SUN transforms NMACC into a journey across Past, Present and Future, blending Indian craftsmanship with immersive technology to explore time, connection and the shifting relationship between humanity, nature and the digital world.
The long-standing divide between art and craft is a cultural invention rather than an inherent truth. Contemporary practice reveals how deeply intertwined these forms are and why creativity flourishes when their boundaries dissolve.
Opening Ishara House in Kochi, 'Amphibian Aesthetics' brings together twelve artists to reflect on migration, oceanic histories and ecological precarity, proposing amphibious ways of thinking and living across land, water and multispecies worlds.
Creativity is not confined to one hemisphere of the brain. This article explores how artists draw on interconnected neural networks, combining analytical reasoning with imaginative insight to produce meaningful and innovative work.