Explore the stories behind the art in our Features section. We delve into diverse topics ranging from public art and digital innovations to the intersection of art and social change. Join us for in-depth explorations of the cultural narratives that drive the creative world.
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A major retrospective at TRI Art & Culture explores seventy years of Gulammohammed Sheikh’s printmaking, revealing a remarkable parallel practice that spans little magazines, traditional printmaking techniques and pioneering experiments with digital image-making.
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Installation art has transformed contemporary practice by prioritizing experience, participation, and immersion. Discover why artists increasingly use large-scale environments, interactive technologies, and site-specific works to engage audiences and address the complexities of modern life.
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Concurrent exhibitions in Washington, Cleveland and Cincinnati are bringing renewed attention to Pahari painting, the emotionally rich miniature tradition that flourished across India’s Himalayan kingdoms between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In a globalised world shaped by images, visual literacy is no longer optional. It empowers us to interpret, question, and create meaning across cultures, turning seeing into an act of understanding, empathy, and responsibility.
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Originality in art is often celebrated as genius, but history shows it is deeply tied to borrowing, transformation, and influence. From Michelangelo to Warhol, creativity thrives not in isolation but in conversation with the past.