Her paintings merge the sacred with the whimsical. Her goddesses are fierce but also joyful. Parekh's painting are on display at the DAG gallery till 23 August.
Historian Pushpesh Pant delivered a talk titled Encountering Indian Food in Art and Sculpture at the National Museum in the presence of Director General BR Mani.
There’s a sad sameness to everything at the India Art Fair—even 15 years after its first edition. It’s a gate that stubbornly refuses to accommodate diversity.
Embroidery, in particular, is the new trick in town. It has come to mirror a photographic language, capturing stories and textures with an intimacy that paint & pixels fail to hold.
The government’s recent decision to revoke a customs duty exemption on Indian art was the central topic of a panel discussion at DAG in Delhi this week.
Roy’s work was instrumental in defining a unique identity for Indian art in postcolonial India. His early works, created post-1930s, featured religious icons from Hindu epics and mythology, Biblical themes and women.
There’s a specific gaze that accompanied orientalist artists, a fascination laced with condescension. 'They exoticise, they mysticise, they romanticise,' said DAG's Giles Tillotson.
Mid-1900s' women artists were often exceptional presences in artist collectives with mostly male members - providing counterpoints to prevalent narratives.
Goswamy was a maker of modern India. 'The history of post-colonial Indian art, art history, and art criticism cannot be understood without his career,' said writer Ananya Vajpeyi.
The Southeast Asian theatre is central to the Great Power contest between the US and China. It’s also a landscape where middle powers—France, the UK, Turkey—are shaping the strategic environment.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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