Director and curator Siddharth Sivakumar and Trustees Malvika Banerjee and Jeet Banerjee’s Gameplan have launched the first- ever Bengal Biennale, a multigenerational tapestry of artistic expression, bringing together a diverse array of artists and their unique perspectives. The event this winter, to be held across two venues — the university town of Santiniketan from November 29 to December 22, 2024, …
The Venice Biennale may have lost much of its singular luster, now that hundreds of periodic surveys of new international art have joined the roster of what was the first — and, for decades after its 1895 founding, one of the few — of its kind. That’s a frame of reference that guides “Taking Venice,” a bumpy new documentary directed …
Paintings by late Chinese artist Guo Fengyi are on show at the 13th Shanghai Biennale. Power Station of Art director says the pandemic has, in fact, enriched the content and strengthened the emotional impact of the ongoing Shanghai Biennale, Zhang Kun reports. The third and major phase of the 13th Shanghai Biennale that opened on April 17 is one of …
Like an ocean, artist Prathapan G.’s works look calm on the surface and turbulent deep inside. “I started drawing sea life in 2013 after seeing a fish trapped in a plastic cover. There are even plastic islands deep inside oceans.” Prathapan, who had been drawing about plastic menace on the peripheral level so far, started digging into the depths of …