“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke How do we define love? Is there a single answer to this or does the definition change with…

    “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon Goa-based artist Sahil Naik’s solo project ‘All Is Water, and to…

      Has the pen or pencil dipped so deep in the blood of the human race as the needle?” – Olive Schreiner ‘Bildungsroman (& Other Stories)’, presented by TARQ, Mumbai, is Areez Katki’s first solo exhibition in India that showcases the artist’s repertoire made over a duration of the past few years. The Parsi embroidery…

  At the shore, the lines are drawn. Both sides are fearful and suddenly thrown together. The refugee looks towards the shore to begin a new life. I am here now. YOU WILL KNOW ME. But what will be the form, quality and course of this encounter? It is uncertain. -Tara Sabharwal ‘Waters Meet/ Sangam’ hosted…

      “…When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your…

    “The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.” -Pat Conroy. In her ongoing virtual exhibition, artist Shanthamani M tells us the story…

    A line is a dot that went for a walk.’ -Paul Klee ‘Still, on the Verge...’, Parul Gupta’s first solo exhibition at Nature Morte, Delhi, showcased the significant body of her works. Artist’s fascination with the square form is evident in each of the exhibits in this show. Starting from drawing a simple straight…

    As if we could ever leave anything behind. -Pierre Joris Delhi-based art gallery, Exhibit 320's current exhibit ‘A Trifecta of Movement’ showcases three contemporary voices from the Indian subcontinent whose works stand at the intersection of partition, memory, migration, global commerce, labour exploitation and issues that surfaced in this region after 1947. Yasmin Jahan Nupur…

    ‘Lokame tharavadu’/ ‘Vasudhaiva kutumbakam’/ ‘World is one family’ is the call of the time as the world has been under the threat of Covid pandemic for the last fifteen months, and people across the geographical borders are forced to be isolated from their family or community. Realising the need to reach out to the…

Review: “Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand”- Mark Twain What can be more apt than looking at the exhibition, ‘Licence to Laugh’, on a day that is celebrated worldwide as the ‘World Laughter Day’? Presented by the Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, on the occasion of its 19th anniversary, the show has been curated by…

  Review: Curator and poet Ranjit Hoskote’s latest curatorial venture, ‘Patterns of Intensity’, is where eleven creative individuals converge, whose practices are informed by social, political, environmental or personal concerns. Curated as part of the Delhi Contemporary Art Week, this exhibition is currently on display at the Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi. Featured artists…

Review: She prowls around my shadowy brain as though it were her dwelling-place — a great soft beast of charming ways, meowling in a mellow strain. - Le Chat , Fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire Boshudhara Mukherjee quotes Charles Baudelaire as she titles her show ‘The Familiars’, currently on view at TARQ, Mumbai. The title is inspired by…