Art

In Mumbai’s local trains, the ladies’ compartment is a paradox. It promises safety through separation, comfort through containment. It’s where strangers sit shoulder to shoulder, share recipes before names, or exchange sighs instead of stories. These quiet solidarities are the premise of Ladies Compartment, a group exhibition by Method (India), now on view at Galerie Melike Bilir in Hamburg, Germany.Traindiaries | Photo Credit: Anushree Fadnavis Beyond gendered train coachesThe show brings together six Indian women artists — Anushree Fadnavis, Avani Rai, Darshika Singh, Keerthana Kunnath, Krithika Sriram, and Shaheen Peer — each reflecting on gender, space, and resilience. Rooted in…

A peacock with a disoriented gaze, a blue poison dart frog from the Amazon struggling to reproduce, and migratory birds and blossoms disrupted by shifting climate patterns — Satadru Sovan Banduri’s acrylic and gouache paintings, on display in Hyderabad, strike a deeply emotional chord.In his ongoing exhibition Disappearing Echoes of the Isolated at Kalakriti Art Gallery, the artist turns his gaze to biodiversity under threat. His evocative works explore environmental concerns such as rising sea levels, tectonic shifts, tsunamis, and the silent extinction of flora and fauna, all underscoring the fragility of ecological systems.Peacock loses home Artist Satadru Sovan Banduri…

(From left) Srivatsan Sankaran, Swetha Kulkarni, Dinesh RP, and Haseena S | Photo Credit: Pramod Mani The recently concluded photo and art exhibition, Anaivarum - Echoes of Heritage: A Celebration of Past & Inclusivity by Madras Photo Bloggers, and jointly organised by the British Council, Nam Veedu Nam Oor Nam Kadhai, and the Madras Literary Society, held a panel discussion titled Sign Language as Art, focussing upon the importance of using sign language and the need for greater inclusivity in the arts. The panel featured deaf artiste Swetha Kulkarni (artist and photographer), Haseena S (deaf stage performer), and Dhinesh RP (deaf filmmaker),…

In a playful mix of Gond art and folk surrealism, Sandeep Dhurve’s pelican — its delicate feathers made from fish — opens its exaggerated throat pouch to swallow a large fish and an elephant. White Pelicon was one of the artworks on display at Mentoring Magic, a recent exhibition at Gallery 47-A in Mumbai’s Khotachi Wadi. “I have a deep interest in wildlife and plants, and I try to convey interesting facts and hidden stories about them] through my paintings,” says Dhurve, 23, who hails from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.White PeliconDhurve was one of nine indigenous participants in the showcase supported by…