In this issue

While putting together our art issue featuring cover girl Ileana D'Cruz, we armed ourselves with a fresh perspective and sought out the people reinvigorating the Indian art scene today — the champions of emerging talent who create platforms for visibility. We rounded up an inspiring group of adventurous collectors, dynamic curators and pioneering gallerists that is challenging not only the perception of art but the very notion of the ‘artist’. If the answer to ‘What is art?’ was an easy one, we probably would not have to put out an issue every year! It is a personal and individual journey and we are not here to dictate what you should like, or consider, as art. We are simply setting up the annual blank canvas and laying out the tools, hoping that inspiration strikes.

A Walk In The Clouds

Escaping to the hills to beat the summer heat, Parmesh Shahani pens his notes from languid Landour

5 mins

Crossing Borders

Boon Hui Tan, director of Asia Society Museum, offers his insights on the country’s developing creative community on a recent visit to New Delhi

3 mins

Inspired Legacy

Representing a new chapter of a game-changing métiers d’art line, the Chanel Mademoiselle Privé Coromandel Table Clock offers a modern, detailed aesthetic

1 min

At First Sight

Her passion for different forms of art fuelled not just her own work, but her growing collection — one that she views as a labour of love. Sana Rezwan Sait writes about acquiring creations that resonate with her

4 mins

Eye For Originality

Ardent collector Kiran Nadar has always followed her heart, whether she is setting up a museum or choosing her next acquisition. In conversation with Sharmi Ghosh Dastidar she reveals what keeps her going

6 mins

Ileana's Palette

Focusing on making the unreal seem believable on celluloid, this industry outsider soon developed a passion and penchant for her art. After more than a decade in the movies, Ileana D’Cruz, who has two different releases on her calendar this year — Mubarakan and Baadshaho — delights in embracing the new and the unusual, finds Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena

8 mins

English Blends

A walk in the meadow, an emotion, a special memory, a place or an ingredient – any of these can spark a fragrance. Let Jo Malone London lead your senses on an olfactory tour

3 mins

Curious Dimensions

A novel approach to exploring art and culture can help in unfolding a city’s storied and complex past. Strolling around Prague, Vidya Vijayasekharan goes in search of sculptures by David Cerny

4 mins

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