Page 4 - Kishore Singh

Shock to impress

In recent years, Reddy has chosen to experiment with relief-like sculptures representing the modern family, though it is anyone's guess whether they have the same impact as his female heads

A summer invitation

Poolside parties might sound refreshing and summery but they're as gross

Modi again. What next?

But we're not done and dusted with the elections - yet

What is art really worth?

If art is a reflection of its society, in times to come Jeff Koons's will most likely depict a civilisation in which inflatable toy-like balloons will mark a subversive, sardonic high point

Gangland? No way!

Khan Market is useful if not central to our existence

Squabble over lawn space

If Sonu knows nothing about vegetables, Omkar knows nothing about flowers. He is amused by how much land is "wasted" on blooms that, while they look pretty, contribute little to one's life

Remembering a giant from the South

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale may have done its bit to address this North-South divide

A trip to Paris... has to wait

'For Paris without the Notre-Dame will not be the same', says the author

Awaiting my turn to vote

One can count on Delhi bettering its turnout record

Archive for sale

So, what of the Nandalal collection? In 1982, under a committee chaired by his former student, Indira Gandhi, Supratik was able to find a home for 6,800 of them at NGMA

Weekend with my mother

I had thought being on my own would be liberating, but you don't want everyone else to have fun while leaving you to cope with New Delhi's heat, dust and outages

An evening to remember

'Waiter's crime was one of impropriety', says the author

Through her eyes

Arpita Singh's are thoughtful paintings that make one pause and think. When that body of work covers 60 years, it makes one reflect on the extraordinary career of an artist

Wedding manager

Weddings make you wish you had a hundred hands instead of a brain that feels like a sponge attached to 10 different heads being pulled in different directions

The art of unification

The popular nationalistic upsurge led to Abanindranath Tagore rejecting his training in Western art practice in search for one that was more indigenous

Joy of seeing the tricolour fly

Our collection of flags comes off the streets, bought from urchins who festoon themselves with the tricolour in the hope of making an extra buck around this time

No more party hopping

The whole of the previous week, we had been on a party carousel

The missing Indians

Who are the primary movers and shakers of the art world - the artists, their promoters, institutions and museums, or the collectors who provide the patronage?

Meet Navtoj Altaf, the artist crafting her experiences into practice

From child sex abuse to the dispossessed in Russia, her work reflects her curious, questioning personality

Big can be beautiful too

Since each is the size of a football, every time we have cabbage - and we seem to have it a lot - there is much more of it to go around