Cracked Wide Open

Building one of the world’s largest domes was no mean task for anyone, let alone an amateur goldsmith, so how did Filippo Brunelleschi accomplish building not one, but two of them?

In Search of a Witness

In conversation with legendary artist Arpana Caur on all things epiphanic, on all things pandemic, and on all things artistic

Where the Shadows Speak

The founder of Sarmaya Arts Foundation takes us through the bylanes of his journey with Sindhe Chidambara Rao, the custodian of the ancient art form of shadow puppetry – Tholu Bommalata

Bodies in Motion

What happens to the memory of a revelatory experience when it is re-watched through the frames of a screen? It somehow makes the edges sharper and the focal point clearer, as we discover through Chandralekha’s iconic Sharira

A Meeting at the Threshold

The immortal actor exemplified all that is admirable about his profession, from his creative choices to his work philosophy, and his passing was a low blow. This is our tribute to the prince among stars – Irrfan

The Imperfect Layout To The Imperfect Mystery

Jane De Suza’s ‘The Spy Who Lost Her Head’ doesn’t feature a protagonist with superhuman skills of deduction, nor a plot that fits together like a jigsaw puzzle. Here, quirks and imperfections are pushed into the spotlight

Free and Flawed

Greta Gerwig revitalises the literary classic, Little Women, highlighting the literary journey of its temperamental and wonderfully flawed female protagonist, Jo March

The Good, the Bad, the Blurred

Franco-German photographer Alexandre Dupeyron took us through his abstracted realities that tread the line between documentary and fiction

The Uncertainty Project

The dreary sameness of architecture calls for a renewal, where form follows malfunction and error becomes an effective tool of design

Engineered Isolation

Artist Baiju Parthan talks to us about why life happens where the analogue ends and the virtual begins and why it is important to keep the familiar and the unfamiliar within the thriving terrain of creative thought

A Taste of Love

Assamese film-maker Bhaskar Hazarika talks to us about his film Aamis and why a love story turning to darkness is a world apart from a dark story turning to love

Kamal Haasan - The Hero With A Thousand Faces

In an exclusive interview with the legend, the man himself – Dr. Kamal Haasan – we spoke about a variety of things, from cinema, to writing, to politics and to the fleeting nature of fame and the lasting nature of influence

The Telling Chronicles

When oral history leads us down another road of stories, and visual narratives weave patterns through the runway of memory lit by words

Remains of the Day

Canadian-American photographer Robert Polidori, known for images that record an imprint of both the past and the present within the confines of a single frame, spoke to us about the cyclical nature of time and the traces of human experiences hidden deep within

Pock-marked Memories

Reliving a poignant visit to the Neues Museum in Berlin – a building that houses the treasures human history – brings the past alive while reflecting lost memories that continue to survive

Handing It Down

Bishwadeep Moitra’s book ‘Brigitte Singh: The Printress of the Mughal Garden’ is a visual biography of Brigitte and her tryst with reviving Indian textile printing, lovingly and aesthetically published by Mapin. We present an edited excerpt from designer, writer and craft activist Laila Tyabji’s chapter, ‘Brigitte Singh, Master Craftswoman’

The Unseeing Gaze

An exclusive interview with film-maker Leena Manimekalai, whose first work of fiction, ‘Maadathy – An Unfairy Tale’, remains true to the grammar of her stellar documentary work: it continues to skip across man-made lines, unmaking them in the process

The Pebble In The Shoe

Part-installation and part-theatre production, ‘.h.g.’ takes the classical fairytale of Hänsel and Gretel and suspends it somewhere between the innocence of childhood and the harsh realities of adulthood

The Life Of Pink

Tracing the tumultuous journey of the colour pink that was historically seen only as a subset of red and one that essentially began as a masculine colour

Making a Wish

‘Hello Farmaaish’, which premiered in Chennai as part of The Hindu Theatre Fest, unfolds as a play, but in its soul and spirit, is a fantastically crafted game of hope, aspirations, imagination, resilience, freedom and sisterhood

Games of Gore

Looking back to a time when ‘fun’ and ‘games’ were intrinsically bound to ‘blood’ and ‘gore’. The Colosseum, the monument where some of the most gruelling tournaments were held

Sporting the Saree

Can sarees be fun? The Saree Speak group, with its new avatar of the old kitty party, the rush of meeting strangers and games around the saree will have us believe that sarees are not only fun but also a source of deep community building

Lee Bul: Crashing

JUNE 1 TO AUGUST 19,2018,LONDON.

Road To Restoration

Tracing the patterns of history in something as tangible as architecture can be daunting and exhilarating, as is evident in this comprehensive study of ‘The Governor’s Residence in Tranquebar: The House and the Daily Life of Its People, 1770–1845’ edited by Esther Fihl.

Unravelling The Narrative

Through two exciting and diverse socially engaged practices by artists in Australia, we look at what it means to reject the narrative and celebrate the unfinished, the open-ended and the cyclic reality of human engagement.

On Shimmering Air

Artist Sumakshi Singh shares her thoughts about the criss-crossing rivers of time and memory and why the poetry inherent in the act of embroidery is perhaps one way of navigating this space of unknowability

Weaving Histories

The Kashmiri carpet-weaving tradition, introduced to the region around 400 years ago by India’s Mughal rulers, is filled with multiple narrative threads, each bringing its own flavour to a story that continues to be made

Fiona Tan: Shadow Archive

In the late 19th century, two young Belgian jurists – Paul Otlet (1868–1944), the father of documentation, and Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943), a Nobel Peace Prize laureate – conceived of a project that sought to gather the world’s knowledge and file it using the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) system that they had created.

Pieta By Cesare Lucchini

Rosenfeld Porcini is located in a quiet by-lane just off the busy Oxford Street in Central London.

A Single Shade Of Equal

The Aravani Art Project is more than just transgender women painting murals on walls – it is a deeply woven dialogue of equality and experience, bringing a much-needed, warmer, inclusive perspective to sexuality and belonging