Art History
From Renaissance workshops to contemporary art schools, the debate over whether artists are born or made has shaped art history for centuries. Examining figures from Picasso to Frida Kahlo reveals how talent, education, society and experience together shape artistic genius.
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An ambitious new exhibition at Palazzo Manfrin sees Anish Kapoor transform sculpture into architecture, bringing together monumental installations, unrealised projects, pigment voids, mirrors, and immersive environments during the 61st La Biennale di Venezia.
Art Education
Art education often discourages failure, yet meaningful artistic growth depends on risk, uncertainty and revision. Teaching students to fail gracefully reframes error as a critical tool, shaping more resilient, thoughtful and ambitious creative practices.
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As contemporary artists move beyond medium-specific practice, photography, painting and sculpture no longer function as stable categories. Instead, artworks operate across forms, demanding new ways of seeing, interpreting and understanding visual culture today.
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Nalini Malani’s 'Of Woman Born', presented by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art as a Collateral Event at the La Biennale di Venezia 2026, transforms Venice’s Magazzini del Sale into an immersive meditation on myth, violence, and women’s voices.
Art Education
Observational drawing depends less on talent than on trained perception. By refining how we see proportion, structure and light, students move beyond symbolic representation towards a more precise, attentive and responsive engagement with the visual world.
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India returns to the Venice Biennale with 'Geographies of Distance: remembering home', a group exhibition curated by Amin Jaffer exploring memory, migration and belonging through five artists working with materials rooted in Indian traditions.
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.
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.
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A major exhibition at the Hong Kong Palace Museum presents The Met’s jewellery collection in Asia for the first time, tracing 4,000 years of adornment and exploring jewellery as a medium of culture, identity, and expression.
Recognised as ruler at the age of four, Maharaja Gajsingh II reflects on heritage, responsibility and identity, and how the legacy of Marwar continues through institutions, culture and the lasting values of its people.
Collage remains one of the most dynamic forms in modern and contemporary art, transforming fragments into meaning. This article explores its evolution, key techniques, and the artists who continue to redefine its possibilities today.
Christie’s presents 'Sublime Shadows' in London this June, bringing a rare private collection of South Asian modern art to auction, led by Gaitonde and Pyne, amid sustained global demand for historically significant works.
Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were among the most influential figurative painters of the twentieth century. Their intense friendship, artistic rivalry, and eventual falling out reveal a fascinating story about portraiture, ambition, and the fragile bonds between great artists.
Creative block affects artists of every discipline, but research in psychology and neuroscience reveals practical ways to overcome it. From changing environments to lowering perfectionist pressure, these science-backed techniques help restore creative momentum and sustain artistic practice.
Often attributed to Pablo Picasso, the famous line “Good artists copy, great artists steal” raises questions about originality and influence. But did Picasso really say it? Exploring the quote reveals surprising connections to earlier thinkers and artistic traditions.
Ellora is not a monument frozen in stone but a living conversation across faiths, centuries and disciplines. In this deeply personal dialogue, Deepanjana and Arno Klein reflect on cross-fertilisation, unfinished histories and belonging to a site that continues to astonish.
Understanding colour theory helps painters make confident artistic decisions. From the colour wheel and complementary contrasts to value and saturation, these fundamental principles guide artists in mixing colours, creating harmony, and bringing greater depth and clarity to their paintings.
In this conversation, Olivia Fraser reflects on the miniature painting tradition that shaped her practice, the meditative discipline of slow painting, and the inner journey that informs her geometric works inspired by Tantric philosophy and sacred geometry.
From Caravaggio’s violent life to Basquiat’s meteoric rise, the myth of the tortured genius has shaped how we view artists. But does great art truly emerge from suffering, or is this one of art history’s most persistent illusions?
From Plato’s transcendent ideals to postmodern scepticism, the meaning of beauty has continually shifted. This essay traces how artists and philosophers have redefined beauty across centuries, revealing why the question still shapes how we see and judge art today.