Longform features on art and art history with critical insights, analysis, and observations.

Features

Solar Symbolism in Mughal Art and Architecture

Features

From Paris to Patiala: Mapping Art Deco’s Indian Turn

Features

What Happens in the Margins: BN Goswamy's Musings on 'Hashiya'

Features

Wife, Mother, Warrior: Female Akalis in Colonial Art

Features

The Deities of Maladies: Goddess Cults Around Pandemics

Features

Travelling Plays: Shadow Puppetry’s Journey Across Borders

Features

Noble Vices: The Role of Intoxicants in Mughal Courtly Culture

Features

Killing the Tiger: ‘Shikar’ and Masculinity in Colonial India

Features

Gender and Caste in India’s Early Vernacular Cookbooks

Features

The Evolving Praxis: Notes on Indian Book Cover Design

Features

Fractured Narratives from the Ruins of Egmore

Features

Between Comfort & Defiance: The Many Lives of the Indian ‘Nightie’

Features

What the Image Knows: The Art of Indo-British Textile Labels

Features

Beyond the Visible: Understanding ‘Dhvani’ in Visual Arts

Features

After Words: Ram Kumar’s Landscapes of Silence

Features

Balancing Tradition with Modernity: The Indian Kodak Girl

Features

How Threshold Floor Drawings Blur the Private and Public

Features

Art and Power: Networks of Patronage and Access in Contemporary South Asia