“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” ― Gustav Mahler As the World Heritage Day, 2021 is themed on ‘Complex Pasts: Diverse Future’, Desee Art looks at the doyen of colour photography in India, Raghubir Singh’s path-breaking oeuvre that celebrates modernism alongside the traditional manner of representing this part…

  “ If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men.”⁣ ― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition⁣   Prajakta Potnis explores the transgression of public and private systems through her captivating art practice. These…

The New Pre-Raphaelites, 2008⁣ Sunil Gupta⁣ ⁣ “I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough,⁣ To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,⁣ To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,⁣ To pass among them or touch anyone, or rest my arm ever so lightly…

    Photoshoot for Adalaj ki Vav⁣⁣ Watercolour on Paper ⁣⁣ 16x11 in⁣⁣ 2020⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us”⁣⁣ Winston Churchill⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Century-old buildings that adorned our country are symbolic of the past it left behind. Mithil Thaker’s depiction of the Adalaj ki Vav in Gujarat reminds us today, on World…