Bharti Kher’s alter ego is a serial diarist. This private persona is not one to which she is known to allow easy access; it must often be teased out of her. On rare occasions, she may volunteer to share choice excerpts from her textual endeavours. Her art remains inflected by the poetic intonation of her… Continue reading How keeping a diary helps Bharti Kher create her art
What do we lose when we forego the painstaking ceremonies of love for the easy impersonality of technology? This is just one of the many questions artist Sharmistha Ray tackles in We are all islands, her first solo show in Mumbai after a five-year hiatus. Known for her abstract oil paintings, the artist says she… Continue reading Sharmistha Ray presents a solo show in Mumbai after a five-year hiatus
It feels like cutting off my twenties, putting them in a box and sending them off to sea,” says Molly Crabapple, 32, about her memoir Drawing Blood (HarperCollins). “To write about your past is to make yourself separate from it. I feel adrift after that.” The personal has always tangled with the political in Crabapple’s… Continue reading Name to know: Molly Crabapple
Amsterdam-based artists and filmmakers Lernert and Sander created a work of art by slicing and dicing 98 unprocessed foods—meat, fruit, vegetables—into perfect cubes, each measuring 2.5 cm x 2.5 com x 2.5 cm. This dizzyingly precise composition was photographed for a Dutch newspaper called de Volkskrant, where it appeared in a centerfold. It’s sexy enough… Continue reading Food geometry
