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"I love art more than virtue, more than people, more than people, more than family, more than friends, more than any kind of happiness or...

Abstract Water Color Brush Strokes ‘Everything starts from a dot …’- Kandinsky As our thoughts and ideas come in no definite shape or...

‘The earth has music for those who listens’ -         William Shakespeare Since time immemorial, this divine music has been echoed...

“Every city dweller ‘writes’ his/her own city and the intersections and intertwining of these individual writings become a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces…”  -        Michel de Certeau Yes, it’s a story of the city within the city. It’s written on billboards, hoardings, graffiti and all sorts of public art platforms. Imagine a city; the yellow band of lights – traffic sputters to a halt; c

Through the pages of history, art and artists have been targeted time and again. They have faced the wrath of the community, critics, skeptics on account of blasphemy, challenging doctrines, and toppling the political power algorithms. It has always been a bumpy road for art to flourish, to conquer, and to establish the truth through the seeker’s eyes. Several artistic creations were censored, banned, and silenced on purpose. Still, art survived through the passage of time. I

“Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.”  - John Ruskin Yes, colors matter for every soul. It unlocks a mystery chest of emotions for us. Can you imagine a world as drab and dreary, devoid of colors? Nope. We think in bits of colors: we are pampered, stirred, and moved by every speck of it. Things that appear in our eyes are nothing but shafts of colors arranged in varied shapes

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one – Stella Adler Have you ever gazed through a starry night and been completely immersed in the cocoon of constellations, lost somewhere in the depth of the cosmos? Or, have you ever experienced the bliss of a marvelous landscape that you have captured while on a leisurely walk to a countryside with the sun escaping into the horizon? Have you ever felt that everything we see, we gather, we experience is

“When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period were, in large measure, breaking out of the constrictions white society had set for them. They were claiming and remaking their own images, and doing so in bold and striking ways.” -        Nikki Grimes Remember Tony Morrison's ‘Sweet Home’ from her book “Beloved?” Or, the great abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe's “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” – resonating t

‘To feel gratitude and not express it, is like wrapping a present and not giving it…’ -          Walt Whitman Yes, it’s all about Thanksgiving week, the fourth week of November, getting ready for the iconic feast, with markets crammed with Black Friday sales, hot deals, glitzy ads, and rush-hour calls for shopping. For artists, it has been an inspiration to honor the spirit of the event, be it with DIY paper turkeys or classy oil paintings dating back to the 1621 pilgrim mee

Revisit the iconic water lilies by Monet, created as a response to the mindless violence of the First World War.