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Drawings and photographs from Geoffrey Bawa’s archives reveal how the Sri Lankan architect built imagination

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Two writers romance the Everest

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Somak Ghoshal

The hypnotic aura of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs triumphs over petty public morality

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Photographs of food can be equally appetising

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A compelling new show spotlights three artists’ take on the ironies and contradictions of their time

Two Lives, Two Realities

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Time and space, and inner and outer worlds, come together in Rahab Allana’s diptychs.

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Anusha Yadav seeks to document India’s social history using family archives with the Indian Memory Project.

The Waterhouse Watershed

Rahaab Allana

In the 1860s, a young officer in the British army in India, called James Waterhouse, compiled one of the most astonishing photographic archives in the world.

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Geoffrey Bawa: Art Is a Construct

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Robert Mapplethorpe: Fire and Light

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Subverting the Subversive

Two Lives, Two Realities

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The Waterhouse Watershed

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