The Anatomy of Celebration by Vasudha Thozur-3

The big, fat Indian wedding, with its larger than life sets and high-decibel music, has been the muse for many Hindi films, the latest being the blockbuster Band Baaja Baarat which made overnight stars of Ranveer Singh and Anushka ...Read More

Binodini - 2

It may be a delayed tribute, but the expanse of the retrospective show of Ramkinkar Baij, celebrated as pioneer of modern Indian sculpture, leaves no room for any complaint. Hosted by the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and ...Read More

Textile by Chittrovanu Mazumdar

 The number of visitors thronging the venue at NSIC Grounds in Delhi only seemed to have grown. But though it was the third and the penultimate day of the fair, there emerged a mixed response from both Indian and international ...Read More

Subodh Gupta's Spirit Eaters @ Khojlive

     When Pooja Sood, director, Khoj, claimed a week ago that Khojlive – an evening of performance art – would be the most exciting collateral event during India Art Fair, even she would not have anticipated the crowd that turned out ...Read More

Bester, Willie - Trojan Horse III

First the 21 minute walk from where the car drops you till you are inside the display area, and then the information pamphlet that holds a list of 98 exhibitors and 13 public art projects spread over 12,000 sq m of ...Read More

Nadir by Diya Naidu

  With a new name, a new venue and new international partners, India Art Fair (formerly India Art Summit) is only growing bigger and better with each year. For its fourth edition slated from January 26-29, the fair is being held ...Read More

Video still by Kiran Chandra

Living in the cities, news of disappearing farmlands and increasing numbers of farmers’ suicides is just another media story for most of us. But when a creative artist chooses to bring the harsh truth right at our doorstep, there is ...Read More

yoko ono

The slight tilt of a cream coloured hat, a pair of spectacles perched precariously on the tip of her petite nose and a smile that can win over even the biggest cynic – Yoko Ono, Japanese artist, filmmaker and peace ...Read More

arty5

From soft watercolours to pencil drawings, from the sensuous figurative portraits of Tagore’s Charulata to metaphorical abstracts, from a tribute to Leonardo Da Vinci to the memories of Old Bengal school masters, Sudip Roy has captured it all. Titled Time ...Read More

dev1

2011 made us bid goodbye unwillingly and sorrowfully to... (Tribute: http://unboxedwriters.com/2011/12/satyadev-dubey-the-resilient-cactus/) Satyadev Dubey who wrote film dialogues like he was unaware of all the cliches and conventions that do not let cinematic characters breathe. And produced and directed theatre with a fierce ...Read More

mario

Polka dotted joie-de vivre, Black-and-white... soundless laughter, Curly wrist hair, Slit and bulbous eyes, Miss Nimbupani, Miss Fonseca, Mr Bundaldass, Hatch lines, Horizontal, vertical, slanting, busy lines, Church spires, Cloudy beer in a yellow mug, Flowered umbrellas, Bendy palms, Orange moons, Still lakes, Bobbing boats, Sloping roofs, Wide eyed cats, Movement in ...Read More

I would like to state that references made to the works in my article, dated 15.11. 2011, on Unboxed Writers website, were misinformed and not based on facts. I, therefore, wish to unconditionally withdraw all the allegations and express that there was ...Read More