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Hariharan’s thoughts and journey as an artist

Hariharan is an artist who concentrates his practices on photography, he has experimented with almost all kinds of known mediums. Hariharan started as a painter in the early 1980s. His paintings were accepted for exhibition in the annual shows of Kerala Lalithakala Akademi from 1982 to 1989. He gave up painting and started to concentrate […]

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Analyzing the Art Life of Dinesh P G

Dinesh P G an artist from Thrissur, Kerala, born in 1972, is a cordial and curious personality. He is a painter and a sculptor, now turned into an educationist too. He completed a 5-year national diploma in painting with distinction from Government College of Fine Arts, Thrissur, Kerala. A very sarcastic way of looking at […]

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S H Raza: Seven Decades of Artistic Genius

The year 2022 marks the centenary of India’s seminal and groundbreaking artists S H Raza. Born on 22nd Feb 1922, S H Raza spearheaded the formation of Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group which changed the course of art in India and charted a whole new path for generations of Indian artists. Raza’s works are now a […]

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The Sea of Pain by Raul Zurita from Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Chilean poet Raul Zurita dedicates this work to Galip Kurdi the brother of Alan Kurdi, the three year-old boy who was washed ashore a beach on the second of September 2015, his image becomes synonymous with the Syrian refugee crisis. Both their mothers died in Mediterranean sea that day. Situating himself as a father, Zurita […]

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John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90

John Berger, the Booker-prize-winning novelist and visionary writer who helped transform the way a generation looked at and perceived art, has died aged 90. “If I’m a storyteller, it’s because I listen,” Berger says in the film. “For me, a storyteller, he’s like a passer, that’s to say like somebody. who gets contraband across a […]

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Know the artist of Kochi-Muziris Biennale’16 – Abhishek Hazra

Abhishek Hazra is an artist based in Bangalore, India. His close yet idiosyncratic study of the historiography of science has led him to examine various technologies of knowledge production and dispersion. He uses video, performance and prints that often integrate textual fragments drawn from real and fictional scenarios. The idea of the thought experiment – […]

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A tribute to Dr. M Balamuralikrishna – The legendary musician

Legendary Carnatic singer Dr. M Balamuralikrishna passed away in Chennai on Tuesday. He was 86. Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna (6 July 1930 – 22 November 2016) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer and actor. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second-highest civilian honour, for his contribution towards Indian Art. He was made […]

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Hyper-realistic goddesses by Omar Ortiz

Senor’ Ortiz possesses something very few men as well as few people on this planet possess. He has a “Keen Appreciation” of the female form. The human female is the most incredibly magnificent work of art that has ever existed in the history of this planet. Most of his works, which have been classified as […]

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Prankur Rana – The moto artist

“NEVER GET SO BUSY MAKING A LIVING THAT YOU FORGET TO MAKE A LIFE” But how many of us actually remember to make a life? Prankur Rana is one such artist who loves to live his life to the fullest. He is a travel enthusiast and an artist who rides a modified Royal Enfield, which […]

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Majo: Murals and Musings

by Y. S. Paurnami. Can a beautiful song ever be related to or compared with an attractive painting? Apart from the obvious explanation that both capture our attention, are there secret bonds between them? These questions may never be answered by theories of aesthetics. Having this riddle in mind let us meet Majo, a young […]