Category: Arts
Winners of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024
The winners of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024 competition were announced in an…
Inside the Biggest Art Fraud in History
A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist (Picasso of the North), a…
Binaca Geetmala’s Golden Voice Ameen Sayani
Ameen Sayani, 91, who achieved fame and popularity all across the Subcontinent, and became a…
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Art
William Deresiewicz in Salmagundi: Art is useless, said Wilde. Art is for art’s sake—that is, for…
Art as Experience: Robert Irwin’s “Untitled (Acrylic Column)”
Morgan Meis writes at Slant Books: Robert Irwin died a few months ago. He was…
This Optical Illusion House Morphs, Changes Shape in a Totally Surreal Way
This video of the house by Roy Lichtenstein makes me question my eyes. As you…
Poems: Cloud in the Wind. Freedom Fret. Weed Instead of Tree. Dubai Chalo
Four poems from ‘Sometime Somewhere’ -published by ‘Budding Talents’ organization, Karachi, in 1977:
Among the Wild Things: Maurice Sendak’s Fantastic Imagination
Caponera and Weinberg described how Sendak labored methodically, industriously, as if his life depended on…
Story In Pictures: TWO Rainbows
“A picture is worth a thousand words”, is an adage in multiple languages meaning that…
Activism as Art
This article is from a presentation made for the Rosemary Bechler Inaugural Memorial Lecture, an…