Delhi based artist Dhara Mehrotra’s solo art installation 'Through Clusters & Networks... is the product of the Artist-in-Residence outreach program at NCBS-TIFR, and offers a closer look at how fungi and plants communicate with each other via a “Wood Wide Web” National Centre of Biological Sciences (NCBS) encourages collaboration at every level and the artist-in-residence outreach program was also in alignment with varying expressions of science. The program brings on board artists who work closely with ‘Principal Investigators’ and their labs to translate the science into art. 

‘Fragmented Life’, the online exhibition organised by Emami Art, that is on view till August 31, paints a picture of privilege as it unpacks the turmoil faced by migrant workers in pandemic.

Every year on March 8, people around the world remember and celebrate the contribution and achievements of women throughout history and across cultures. Historically, they have often been excluded from the art world, and their contributions have been overlooked or undervalued. Nonetheless, women have resiliently used art to tell their stories, and challenge the status quo. They have continued to create and innovate, leaving a lasting legacy in the world of art.

Indian visual art, when contemplated long enough, reveals a quietly powerful essence running beneath many canvases. It is not always dramatic or loud. It...

The idea of merging natural landscapes with art, by using the natural materials available within those surroundings to the artist is what formulated the movement of Land Art. We have some incredible contemporary as well as older examples within this movement to help elucidate better. Below, a few incredible examples of artists who championed this movement are included, alongside those who are continuing their incredible journey of Earth Art even today

Every artwork has a story to tell; similarly, every city has its own unique story for its sojourners, a blend of these two is artistically captured in the series of artworks on Banaras (Varanasi) by different artists.

Tribal and folk arts upholds the essence of the country. It remains to be a repository of ancestral memories and traditions. It becomes a connection between today and the past, where many traditions and culture is thriving.

There’s something so magical about sunsets. You watch the sun go down, see those beautiful colours in the sky, clouds moving about, it’s a wonderful sight. It’s powerful enough to stop you from whatever that you’re doing, just to watch the colours dancing over you. It’s almost like love at first sight; you just fall in love once you look at it. There is nothing that you would want to change about it. What is fascinating is that, for us humans, a simple act of the sun going down seems so magical. It’s simply nature. We’re all so caught up with our lives that we forget to appreciate the little things that make us happy.

Fauvism was the first art movement that took place in twentieth-century France. This avant-garde movement was the first reaction to impressionism and other conventional methods of art.

Sonal Varshneya’s first ever tryst with watercolours and her first ever virtual solo show ‘Jo Jahan Hein Wahin Rahe’ is a fitting illustration of the hope that we must keep in these uncertain times.  Sonal Varshneya’s first ever watercolour series ‘Jo Jahan Hein Wahin Rahe’ is a poignant venture into the depiction of the strangeness of our isolation.