Bhupen Khakhar review – Mumbai's answer to Beryl Cook
Please don’t think I mean that Khakhar was an ironically “bad” painter who deliberately shunned technical smoothness for sophisticated technical reasons. There is no self-knowing game or provocative...
View ArticleSo What if Bhupen Khakhar Was Dissed by a British Art Critic?
If there is anything that the Jonathan Jones review of Khakhar shows, it is that we in India do not have high quality art reviewing and critiqui
View Article“The entire city can be considered as one large house”
Writing this with the messy help of Google Translate, the Venetian mayor has signed a law “attesting that the entire city can be considered as one large ‘house,’” or eruv,1 extending
View ArticleAn Imaginary, Abandoned (And Filthy) Saint-Firminy
After "vandalizing" Ville Savoye and transforming La Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut with color, Brussels-based artist Xavier Delory has completed the final visualization in his series, "Pilgrimage Along...
View ArticleAfrica's urbanisation 'megatrend' needs to deliver growth, says report
With more than half of Africans expected to live in cities by 2050, we need to turn urban areas into engines of development, African Economic Ou
View ArticleWatch the Documentary 'Cleveland: Confronting Decline in an American City'
Northern Light Productions and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy have released the entire film Cleveland: Confronting Decline in an American City on YouTube. Previously, only a trailer was available...
View ArticleTrailer for the new film 'the Architect'
When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of a visionary modernist architect, whose soaring ideas are matched by only his ego. The woman is swept away by the...
View ArticleEnvironment Ministry eyes ‘urban forests’ in 200 cities to increase green cover
On the World Environment Day today, Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change highlighted the need for increasing the green cover and protecting wildlife. He also...
View ArticleAre Indian cities ready for the coming migration wave?
The book goes on to cite Ahmedabad's Sabarmati Riverfront Development project (SRDP), one of the eight case studies, as an example of a scoping exercise that took a long time for completion.
View ArticleA Harappan Site In South India? Ground Report From Keeladi, Madurai
The Keeladi excavations and subsequent ones may provide us with a vivid picture of how the real Sangam society lived. I phoned eminent epigraphist S. Ramachandran. He pointed out the possibility of...
View ArticleBhupen Khakhar’s London exhibition: Art fraternity angry over bad review
The art fraternity in India has responded with outrage, calling Jones everything from a 'blowhard doofus' to a 'waste of time' and 'agonisingly
View ArticleReimagining the Future - Utopian Perspectives
The postgraduate journal antae is pleased to announce a special issue around the idea of alternative futures, in particular ones that can be described as “utopian”. This issue shall be published in...
View ArticleThe History of Indian Marketing
The Journal of Historical Research in Marketing invites submissions for a special issue focused on the history of Indian marketing. For this special issue of JHRM we particularly welcome manuscripts...
View ArticleHistory of Retailing and Consumption, an international journal published by...
History of Retailing and Consumption provides a central place for publication and reference for those interested in all aspects of the subject: from the literary, to the spatial, to the economic. In...
View ArticleThe Economist Who Just Won a Nobel Prize Thinks Owning a Home Is a Terrible...
If everyone you know is telling you to buy a house, you should read Robert Shiller's work.
View ArticleShowing, Telling, Seeing: Exhibiting South Asia in Britain 1900-Now
Organised by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Asia Art Archive, in collaboration with Tate Modern.
View ArticleMonsters: Theory, Translation, Transbiology
From the enduring popularity of narratives such as Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) to current television series such as American Horror Story (2011-), world cultures appear to be obsessed...
View ArticleARIEDA Questions Move to Engage Private Institution for Drafting Guwahati...
AREIDA president PK Sarma, in a statement in Guwahati said that they have become apprehensive of the current exercise to amend the CMP 2025. “Vested interests in the GMDA in connivance with some land...
View ArticleWe built this city: how the refugees of Calais became the camp's architects
"Papers,A day-long festival of the art, culture and architecture of the refugee crisis" is at the Barbican, London, on 12 June.
View ArticleObjective of Smart Cities Mission is to create lighthouses: Union Minister...
There seems to be lack of clarity as far as JNNURM (Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission) is concerned.There is no JNNURM. It has ended in 2014.....Is your govt planning to replace JNNURM in...
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