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What does a cinematographer or a photographer do that we can't? Well, he reinterprets the world through his gaze, recreates it, focusses on moments that say, "Watch this. This is important. Beautiful. Relevant," bleaches a frame of colour or suffuses ...Read More

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River as a witness. River as a companion. River as a traveller. River as a habitat. As a purveyor of food. Waste. Faith. Goods. Livelihoods. Memory. Artist, film maker and photographer Bhavani GS has been obsessed with the many faces ...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

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Freedom is a word full of peril. Because it engages with something that exists beyond the possible, the real, the confined, the limited. Freedom in its purest sense is not a destructive word. It is not about leaving ...Read More

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Whenever photographer Clare Arni steps on Bangalore's MG Road, young vendors of cliches flock around her,  mistaking her for a foreigner. The moment she starts chatting them up in mellifluous Kannada, they realise their mistake. Only an ...Read More

Anjum Singh (sculpture)

Artists have often come forward to support social causes. But when artists come forward to support fellow artists, the event has to be special. 40 leading contemporary artists from across India and South Asia have donated artworks for a unique ...Read More

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In the 80s, when you opened a film magazine you came across Gautam Rajadhyaksha's name pretty often. I still remember one shot of Tina Munim curled up on a sunny window ledge with a cup of tea, smiling into the ...Read More

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  You can capture silence only if it captures you first. Only if you allow it in your soul and let it settle down down like a pool of blue nothingness, with not a ripple on its surface. Just a liquid ...Read More

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Long before photography was invented in the beginning of the nineteenth century, Spanish painter and last of the Old Masters, Francisco Jose De Goya y Lucientes, known to the world simply as Goya (1976-1828), had anticipated modern photography through his ...Read More

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    I had just come back from a week-long trip when the doorbell rang. Fervently hoping it would be the home-delivery guy, I opened the door to find my 53-year-old neighbour, the good samaritan that he is, standing sheepishly with all ...Read More

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  It was an out-of-focus photograph - of close friend and fellow artist Anjum Singh setting up her show at Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi - that started it all for Manisha Gera Baswani. A lesser  eye would have perhaps ...Read More

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Sharmila Shah cuts a pretty picture but the pictures she clicks are not just pretty. They have something that comes from the core of her life-loving, vibrant personality. Sharmila does not do things in half measure. She enjoys good food, travel, music, friends and ...Read More