Arts

Unusual material has increasingly entered contemporary art vocabulary. Like dental plaster that Jitish Kallat moulds for his Antidote with its fruit bat, sleeping upside down, comfortably sw...

Is Utpal Dutt, the revolutionary playwright and director of the 1970s, still relevant to our times? If the answer is affirmative, how would a playwright shaped by Dutt’s propagandist methods res...

Liminal beings are those that cannot easily be placed into a single category of existence — they are ambiguous and challenge social classification. The exhibition, Of Liminal Beings and Oth...

The compilation of eight films in I m / Material, curated by Pickle Factory and recently presented in JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, Durban, engages with the rigidity and fluidity of ...

Sudhir Patwardhan’s stark pastel drawings and paintings (picture, right) make the issue of alienation obvious enough through its depictions of couples who are close to each other yet separated b...

Food is integral to identity. But what this truism often overlooks is that food can be as diverse as identity. This heterogeneity is what the exhibition, Rice Eaters 101 - N.E. (organized by...

Banyan Tree presented Barkha Ritu in Bangalore, which showcased violin and slide guitar performances by R. Kumaresh and Debashish Bhattacharya as well as a vocal recital by Venkatesh Ku...

The first thing that stumps you about Rounak Patra’s show, held some time ago at Art Multi-disciplines, is the title: Cohen’s Chutzpah. Cohen? Not Cohn? As in Cohn-Bendit? For that&rs...

Gauhar Jaan, the ‘first recording superstar’ of India, continues to fascinate the Calcutta stage. Over the past two decades, the city has seen at least half a dozen productions celebrating...

You have in the past spoken about how Alexander McQueen inspires your sense of fashion. How far does fashion and music go hand in hand? For me, all artistic expressions I participate in have one main...