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Bhumika Popli

Food Review: Plant-based kitchen at Greenr’s new outlet

The newly-launched outlet of Greenr Café in Gurugram lives up to the standards of the older one which was located at Delhi’s Shahpur Jat....

Book Review: A vocalist’s manifesto for reforming Carnatic culture

In Reshaping Art, author and musician T.M. Krishna presents a wide-ranging critique of the Carnatic tradition while attacking its caste and gender-based hierarchical framework,...

Four artists chronicle their experience of Indian cities in this new exhibition

Featuring paintings, sketches, installation and mixed-media pieces, the ongoing exhibition at Delhi’s Bikaner House is an artistic exploration of subjects like urbanity and displacement....

It’s time to take architecture back to its creative roots in painting and sculpture 

A recently-concluded exhibition at Delhi’s Bikaner House explored the various points of convergence between art and architecture. Displayed at the show were drawings and...

‘The thought of returning to a stable job never occurs to me’

Venkat Iyer quit his corporate job with a mission to set up his own organic farm. His book, Moong Over Microchips, is an account...

Climate for art: A German photographer on the road in India, Russia and Sudan 

A new solo show now on view at Delhi’s India International Centre features the work of the German photographer André Lützen, whose recent series,...

Using symbols of ordinary life, Meera Mukherjee created art that was sublime

An anthology of writings and photographs focused on the life and work of sculptor Meera Mukherjee was launched earlier this week at the India...

‘This book narrates the story of my family, my ancestors’

Princess Rajyashree Kumari, from the royal family of Bikaner, speaks to Bhumika Popli about her recent memoir, Palace of Clouds, her life in Bikaner,...

Ketaki Sheth’s studio portraits make the setting their principal subject

Renowned photographer Ketaki Sheth travelled to eight states in the country in search of old photo studios that have now become relics of a...

Every painting has a price

Two of the biggest auction houses in the world, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, have in recent years consolidated their presence in India, as a response to...

Subramanyan’s drawings celebrate the creative spirit of womanhood

K.G. Subramanyan was one of India’s most versatile modernists. The ongoing exhibition of his drawings, at Delhi’s Triveni Kala Sangam, serves as another reminder...

Indian Photography Festival 2018 to be hosted in Hyderabad this month

The 2018 edition of Indian Photography Festival opens on 6 September at multiple venues across Hyderabad. Over 500 photographers, veterans and amateurs alike, from...

Delhi Contemporary Art Week: Most engaging works from across South Asia

Seven of Delhi’s top galleries, and some of India’s best contemporary artists are participating in the 2018 edition of the Delhi Contemporary Art Week....

Future of the form: A World Photography Day special

World Photography Day is celebrated on 19 August every year by professionals and amateurs alike. To mark the occasion this year, Guardian 20 reached...

Food Review: TGKF is celebrating 20 years in business

The Great Kebab Factory (TGKF), a restaurant famous for its kebabs completed two decades in August. Marking its 20th year in the business, the...

A photobook is more than a collection of images, it is a collectable object

Photobooks have come to be regarded as art objects, with contemporary photographers in India and overseas using this relatively new form to reach out...

Khairnar’s colour-field paintings offer us a new mode of expressing the abstract

Nashik-based artist, Pandit Bhila Khairnar is among the very few Indian exponents of the Rothko-inspired colour-field painting movement. His artworks are part of a...

How contemporary photographers are sourcing metaphors from the Internet

Many Indian photographers are making use of the Internet and social media in a bid to reinvent the form and discover new artistic metaphors...

Nilima Sheikh’s experiments with colour, space and the narrative form

After a successful opening last year at Germany’s biggest art show Documenta, Nilima Sheikh’s solo exhibition has travelled to Delhi’s Bikaner House. The show...

Postcolonial gaze: Aboriginal artists from Australia narrate their history

The ongoing exhibition at Delhi’s NGMA features 102 artworks by Aboriginal artists from Australia, who have, over the last two centuries, developed a unique...

Biryanis from different regions of the country

It was a disappointment that let Adit Madan of The Biryani Project (TBP) venture into the craft of creating gourmet Biryani. According to him, “Most...

When architects re-imagine the urban landscape of India through works of art

Death of Architecture, the exhibition currently on view at Delhi’s India Habitat Centre, features illustrations and pictorial panels, created by professional architects, exploring the...

Aladdin, the musical will transport you to the fantasy world of Agrabah

Remember Aladdin? Not the character as such, but the animated fantasy show which had most of us glued to our television sets in the...

Unconventional art is juxtaposed with traditional forms at this Mumbai show

The Face of the Sun, the ongoing exhibition at Mumbai’s Akara Art Gallery, displays conventional and unconventional art created by Arpita Singh and Manjit...

‘I chose not to use European sources as my main material’

Author Ira Mukhoty’s latest book is a feminist rewriting of Mughal history that focuses exclusively on the half-forgotten female protagonists of that era. She...

Raza’s early paintings give us a glimpse of the other side of his creative practice

A new exhibition at Mumbai’s Piramal Museum of Art centres on S.H. Raza’s early landscape paintings, which were a far cry from his trademark...

An exhibition that celebrates the subtle yet impactful beauty of minimalism

Maximising the Minimal, the ongoing show at Mumbai’s Tao Art Gallery, features artworks by 18 Indian painters, both young and old, who found inspiration...

Shoojit Sircar: Auteur theory

Filmmakers in India generally have to choose between artistic integrity and commercial success. But Shoojit Sircar, with films like Piku, Vicky Donor and October...

With tactile art, curators are helping the visually-impaired develop a sense of form

Art galleries and museums in India are not the most disabled-friendly in the world. But some prominent venues in our big cities are attempting...

Artists who found inspiration in urban dust heaps and human wastelands

Can the rubbish heap be seen as a subject fit for art? Two new exhibitions, currently on at separate venues in Delhi and Mumbai,...

A luxury salon that cares for the climate

Neu Salonz, one of the prominent luxury salon chains in Delhi/NCR, has chosen to go the ecological way. In its endeavour to care about the...

Satyajit Ray’s ‘photo biographer’, Nemai Ghosh remembers his mentor and muse

Acclaimed photographer Nemai Ghosh dedicated over 25 years of his career photographing the filmmaker Satyajit Ray. His photos of Ray are now the focus...

‘I was driven by a desire to excel and make a difference’

Author and investment banker, Naina Lal Kidwai speaks to Bhumika Popli about her rise to prominence in the corporate world, and about her recent...

An artistic response to conflict and oppression in Afghanistan

Before he became a well-known artist in Kabul, Afghanistan, 47-year-old Mohammad Salim Attaie had to join the army at 16. He was fighting the...

Saved from oblivion, the manuscripts of Timbuktu are now on display in Delhi

A selection of ancient manuscripts from Timbuktu, some of which date back to the 14th century, is the focus of an ongoing exhibition at...

‘Good comedy always comes from good writing’

Veteran comedian and actor Rakesh Bedi—who played the character of Omi in Sai Paranjpye’s romantic comedy Chashme Buddoor (1981) and later became a household name through...

A new way of looking at the past and present of art, from a global perspective

Veteran art curator and head of research at the British Museum, J.D. Hill speaks to Bhumika Popli about India and the World, the ongoing...

‘Writing subdued my pain, offered a sort of catharsis’

In an interview with Bhumika Popli, acclaimed writer Ajeet Cour, whose autobiography has recently been translated from Punjabi into English, talks about her undying...

‘To film wildlife one needs to be ready for the unexpected’

Award-winning wildlife filmmaker, Mike Pandey speaks to Bhumika Popli about his past work, his future projects, the crisis of wildlife filmmaking in India, and...

Against ownership: A Mumbai-based startup is offering artworks on rent

Floating Canvas Company, a Mumbai-based startup, is changing the rules of the art market by offering specially curated paintings, illustrations and photographs by emerging...

How India’s first private art gallery introduced modern masters to the world

Established in 1936, Delhi’s Dhoomimal Art Gallery was the first-of-its-kind platform through which many Indian modernists reached out to prospective buyers and made a...

Great artworks available at throwaway prices at Delhi’s Affordable Art Mela

Organised by Kolkata’s CIMA art gallery, the Affordable Art Mela is being hosted in Delhi for the first time ever, with a wide range...

A modern master whose passing marks the end of an era in Indian art

After the death of the renowned painter Ram Kumar, the artist’s friends and close associates talk about his legacy, his commitment to leading a...

Food Review: An elegant restaurant with royal Indian fare

Spellbound Address: Garden Galleria Mall, Noida Meal for two: Rs 2,500 plus taxes   A new restaurant in Noida is becoming a favourite among those who like to...

Vivan Sundaram: My Experiments with Art

One of India’s best-known artists, Vivan Sundaram turned 75 this year, and his life’s work is part of a grand retrospective being hosted in...

A writer’s journey from the world of words to a different kind of narrative

Historian William Dalrymple is as comfortable and skilful with the photographic form as he is with words. Some of his recent photos, taken with...

‘A translation can only be as good as the translator’

Renowned translator N. Kalyan Raman, who has dedicated his career to making Tamil literature accessible to the Anglophone reader, speaks to Bhumika Popli about...

The centre cannot hold: Paintings that speak to us from the margins

Hashiya: The Margin, a group show that opened recently in Delhi, explores the old 15th-century idea that in painting, what lies in the margins...

First International Print Biennale in Delhi brings printmakers back in focus

Organised by the Lalit Kala Akademi, the International Print Biennale in Delhi features artworks by over a hundred emerging and established printmakers from across...

Maneka Gandhi unveils her collection of 19th-century mica paintings

Collected over many years, a set of rare mica paintings from 19th-century India is now on sale at the Delhi residence of the Union...

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