In an obscure village in Bangladesh — as late as in the mid-1970s — a little boy would scratch on palm leaves to practise writing Bengali letters. His first lesson in ‘etching’...

The exhibition brought together the works of four female artists from the city —  Jayashree Chakravarty, Radhika Agarwala, Sonia Mehra Chawla and Suhasini Kejriwal. Their composite and laye...

There is now a Wall, said the title of Experimenter’s recent Rathin Burman show. The question that immediately comes to mind is, where’s “there”? The eponymous work, an imposin...

The works of three young artists have been brought together at Art Exposure in the form of ‘Memory Leaves’ that examines both metaphors and the moods of these artists in their practices an...

Where does an installation artwork begin and what are its boundaries? If cleverly curated, the art experience can begin long before stepping into the gallery. Walking into a tiny bylane of Calcutta to...

Prasanta Mandal is an arresting sight with his flowing beard and the quiet intensity with which his small, lean frame is bent over his table. He is working on a terracotta sculpture at the peaceful, s...

It is the same element of surprise that drew Chitrali Mukhopadhyay to ceramics. “So much depends on the material you use, but even then, when you put it in the fire, you don’t know how muc...

What has been your mom’s reaction? She is very proud and supportive. She is also very critical of my work and if she doesn’t like something, she’ll be like ‘burn it’. (L...

“The idea of organising the workshop on altogether different theme of sculpting through building waste material came to my mind recently after witnessing the huge quantity of building waste mate...