In Mumbai’s parks, abandoned buildings and intersections where birds are fed, a wayfaring multi-disciplinary artist from Bandra, Sarika Bajaj, hunts for discarded feathers. “I have been working with feathers for nearly 12 years,” she says, talking about her solo exhibition, titled Requiem, at Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art, Colaba. “I started studying about the cultural symbolism associated with birds, their role …
The Left uses art, literature, drama and cinema not merely to make an ideological statement but ultimately to topple governments In 1974, Tom Wolfe was rudely jolted awake in his bathtub when he read the following words in The New York Times, written by Hilton Kramer, dean of the arts at Yale University: “Realism does not lack its partisans, but …
Fan Yang in his younger days. Over the past decades, he has used the traditional forms of Chinese painting to portray major historical events in the country, using his brush to record the sweeping changes. He credits the guidance and support of his uncle Fan Zeng, a contemporary master of traditional Chinese painting, for his decision to embark on the …
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