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April 2, 2026, 05:07 PM - 7 min read
Muholi uses the non-binary pronouns they/them/their and prefers the term “visual activist” over “artist” or “photographer”. This makes it clear that their work is explicitly political and is intended to bring about change through transforming how Black LGBTIQ+ people are portrayed and perceived. Their photographs are a powerful meditation on Blackness and being. They summon a new and resistant form of visual language to expose and contest racist violence.
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April 1, 2026, 04:09 PM - 4 min read
Rich in mood and texture, “Tunnel Number 33” unfolds in a landscape of dusk, sleet, and shifting shadows, where the past quietly presses against the present.
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April 1, 2026, 03:33 PM - 5 min read
This voluminous coffee-table book presents a glowing narrative of Lahore’s last royals and features over 550 images together with numerous original artefacts from the author’s collection.
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February 23, 2026, 02:52 PM - 2 min read
The elephant, located in the Piazza della Minerva in front of the basilica, holds the obelisk on its back.
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February 20, 2026, 01:17 PM - 8 min read
The Kalevala, a poetic masterpiece of nearly 23,000 lines, first appeared in 1835. Now, nearly 200 years later, those “luckless lands of the North” are an increasingly tense border zone. On one side sits Finland, affluent and famously “happy.” On the other side sits the Republic of Karelia that today is part of the Russian Federation. But on February 28, both will unite in celebration of Kalevala’s anniversary and the cultural-political independence it helped achieve.
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January 11, 2026, 01:19 PM - 11 min read
This year the biennale is larger and more ambitious compared to its previous editions. It is spread across Fort Kochi, Mattancherry, Willington Island and Ernakulam.
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November 9, 2025, 01:22 PM - 8 min read
A hamlet of about 150 houses, barely 15 km from the temple town of Puri in Odisha, it is a heritage crafts village where history dates back to 5 BC. While in the rest of the world, art makes news only when a work is auctioned crossing the million-dollar mark; at Raghurajpur, it is practised as ‘sewa’ to Lord Jagannath.
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October 17, 2025, 03:37 PM - 10 min read
A Patachitra painting is a slow miracle. The canvas is made from old cotton saris soaked in a paste of chalk and tamarind seed, then polished smooth with a conch shell.
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September 17, 2025, 04:27 PM - 2 min read
This is Malone’s second visit to India, after his debut performance in December 2022.
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September 7, 2025, 01:32 PM - 10 min read
“If you have 300-year-old objects, you have to make their history relatable to the contemporary context, to make it interesting,” says artist and museologist Subodh Kerkar, founder and director of Museum of Goa and Museum of Beer.
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August 17, 2025, 02:10 PM - 9 min read
Most of the authors had fled their homeland—from what came to be known as Pakistan. After regaining some semblance of normalcy, they started to record the events in the form of novels and short stories.
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July 31, 2025, 03:14 PM - 9 min read
Bachata’s popularity has also spread to other countries in Latin America, and especially among working-class and Afro-descendant communities in Central America that see their own realities reflected in the music.
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