Art & Culture

Bond with the Rest

Kabeer Sharma

Open speculates on what the prospective suitors for MGM might do with the studio’s money-spinning Bond franchise.

Whassup with Ramu?

Rahul Bhatia

Why has one of our most gifted film directors sunk to such depths?

Still Moving Histories

Venkata Vemuri

An exhibition in London looks at 150 years of photography in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

This isn’t What it Looks Like

Vidya Shivdas

An exhibition of contemporary art from Pakistan redefines the idea of national art, and of the political versus the private.

Frida’s Shadow

Arindam Mukherjee

The necklace is an overpowering and almost macabre motif in Anju Dodiya’s ‘fictional self images’.

God’s Own Artist

Avantika Bhuyan

Known as the MF Husain of tribal art, Jivya Soma Mashe has got the Prince Claus award for his reinvention of Warli art.

“I could both do what I wanted to and annoy my parents”

Mitali Saran

Anne Enright, the Booker-winning author, is in India this month. “I want to disturb areas of the brain that don’t get a workout that often,” she says.

Myths Reawakened

Subhra Mazumdar

There’s something of a miniaturist in the fineness of detail on these large canvases by Jayasri Burman, in her biggest solo exhibition till date.

All the World’s on Our Stage

Avantika Bhuyan

The National School of Drama festival brings the best of East and West to Delhi.

Bravo! Another Curtain Call!

Avantika Bhuyan

The Ministry of Culture has announced a slew of measures to put life back into the theatres of India. But theatre and its practitioners want and need much more.