India
Bombay's first international gay film festival triumphsTuesday, 27 April 2010Everything happens so quickly in India. It seems like only yesterday that homosexuality was legalised; and now Bombay has just hosted the first Kashish-Mumbai International Queer Film Festival. As one of its very literary organisers pointed out,... Read more... |
It's A Wonderful AfterlifeWednesday, 21 April 2010
Many is the mother the world over who announces that she won't die happy until she has lived to see her daughter (or son) happily wed. And so, out of a familial condition that transcends ethnicity and geography comes It's a Wonderful Afterlife, the... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Sarnath BanerjeeSaturday, 13 March 2010
When the subversive graphic artist Sarnath Banerjee won a MacArthur grant he opted "to research the sexual landscape of contemporary Indian cities", embroiling himself in the aphrodisiac market of old Delhi and introducing the English reading public... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Sarnath BanerjeeSaturday, 13 March 2010
The subversive artist and film-maker Sarnath Banerjee, credited with introducing the graphic novel to India, features in a London show, Royale With Cheese, at Aicon Gallery, 8 Heddon Street, London W1, where his eight-scene graphic narrative Che in... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Artist Anish KapoorSaturday, 07 November 2009
The sculptor Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), RA, CBE, won the Turner Prize in 1990. His public works are characterised by their gigantic scale and ambition. In the UK he is probably best known for Marsyas (2002), the viscerally red “ear trumpet” that... Read more... |
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