November 2018

Lotuzhead paints at live gigs across Chennai wearing masks, scarves and even an occasional paper bag, much to the bewilderment of the city’s watchmen “Since I am anonymous, the background will seem very vague,” Lotuzhead says, cutting short all nosy questions that demand his identity. The Chennai-based artist who has been working under the name Lotuzhead since 2015, zealously keeps

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Ashu Gupta ruminates on nature and its preservation through her intricate works in pen and ink at Art Bengaluru Ashu Gupta’s art works at Art Bengaluru manage to tug at your heartstrings. Ashu doesn’t just stop at depicting her muse – nature, but goes one step ahead and depicts it shorn of its glory. With her labour-intensive pen and ink

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‘Tripura: Time Past and Time Present’ explored the rich cultural history of the State   A mesmerising portrait of Maharaja Bir Chandra Manikya with his better half was the first thing that struck visitors at the Kamladevi Complex of India International Centre where an exhibition on Tripura, showcasing old paintings, photographs and new textiles was organised as part of The

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Kerala-based artist Ratheesh T.’s new work explores matters of the moment in his richly toned portraits and landscapes, says Tejal Pandey   There is something to be said about autobiographical works. A self-reflection, it’s the slight sliver of an opening where artists let their audience in on otherwise closely guarded inner worlds. For Trivandrum artist Ratheesh T., whose work has

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‘I want to hear my voice echo the anthem of women’s empowerment’ Taking stock of one’s life experiences, the learning, living, falling, rising, the in-between, the lull; all of it culminates into a certain something that artist Rekha Rodwittiya explores in her new show ‘Rekha@Sixty: Transient Worlds of Belonging’. The Bengaluru-based artist’s imagery, celebrating her 60th birthday, delves into her

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Friends and family of Girish Kumar get together to remember the artist and person he was     When Girish Kumar plumbed the dark abysses of his mind to come up with a rainbow that he splashed on canvasses, his family and friends were pleasantly surprised. From a void of depression and angst came paintings that were brimming with life

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K.S. Radhakrishnan’s latest show depicts movement and intangible elements Everything is life and everything is form. Both the visible and the invisible. Mist, melted metal, vapour — sculptor K.S. Radhakrishnan gives physicality to it all. In his fifth show with Art Musings, titled The Song of Small Things, he once again brings alive his patent figures of Musui and Maiya

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Artist Devika Sundar’s medical condition finds a multi-layered rendition in her first solo History has seen how some of the most common works of art had a tragic back story to them. Pain and trauma ignite the creative mind. Artist Devika Sundar knows how. Her first solo “Essentially Normal Studies” at Gallery Sumukha, after all is, a body of work,

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Traversing Empirical spaces- An Art exhibition by VijayaRaghavan Srinivasan will be held. Nov 9 to Nov 17, 9.30 am to 6.30 pm, Geothe -Zentrum Hyderabad, Road No.3, Banjara Hills.