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Anish Kapoor in Berlin

Kapoor in Berlin is the first comprehensive exhibition of Anish Kapoor in Berlin. The Indian-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor is known for his spectacular sculptures and installations, such as the Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, Chicago. For his exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau he uses the whole ground floor of the building, including the atrium. In this video, Anish Kapoor talks about the concept of the show and specific works, such as the huge kinetic installation in the atrium of the Martin-Gropius-Bau. Video by Frantisek Zachoval.

Artist Sarnath Banerjee | Berlin series

Sarnath Banerjee from India paints a very different picture of Berlin for his readers back home. He produces comic strips on life in the German capital for publication in an Indian daily. To him, Berlin is a fascinating metropolis full of contradictions. His intriguing graphic novels tell the story.

Jitish Kallat | Circa

In this video Asialink talk with Jitish Kallat and take a look at his exhibition Circa at The Ian Potter Museum of Art.

"Jitish Kallat: Circa" is Kallat's first solo exhibition in an Australian museum. Following the reflective nature of his recent projects, this exhibition is conceived as an evolving narrative; an experiment of multiple interventions across several spaces within the Ian Potter Museum of Art. During the course of six months from October 2012 to April 2013, some works will appear for a few days, while others will remain on display until the end of the exhibition. Still others await conception when the departure of interventions makes space for them as part of an evolving entry and exit of ideas.

Presented in partnership with Utopia@Asialink. Supported by Australia India Institute, the Keir Foundation and Melbourne Festival.

The exhibition runs from Saturday 13 Oct 2012 to Sunday 7 Apr 2013.

IOU Project | Kavita Parmar

Kavita Parmar is a fashion designer, serial entrepreneur, founder and creative director of the IOU Project. In her talk she stresses the importance of Loving one's Work as a crucial ingredient for an healthy and creative life.

Graphic Novelist | Amruta Patil

Luminous Matter | at Studio X (Jan 25th, 2013)

Dystopia and Urban Imagination  (21st to 25th January 2013), Studio X, Bombay.

Luminous Matter is stunning steampunk stop motion in which two species of luminescent insectoid creatures must find each other and in a dark dystopian world. They scuttle around in the mechanical darkness bearing a unique luminous character that unites them and will enable them to evolve.

“Science Fiction film has always presented us with extraordinary images of our living environments whether traveling to the past, present or future. In this series of film screenings we explore the dialectic between contemporary urbanity and the seemingly disparate or frighteningly real images that these films present in terms of their conceptual representation of urban life. On the last day, there will be a film screening of Luminous Matter along with an interactive session discussing the intersections between the science fiction film genre and the urban condition.”

Cheers 

Andrew. 

andrew@compositus.in

                                          A still from Luminous Matter.

Documenta 13 | Amar Kanwar

Motherland Magazine

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Asia Society President Vishakha Desai

NEW YORK, August 30 2012 — On her final day at Asia Society, outgoing president Vishakha Desai looks back on her 22-year tenure with the organization.

Artist Aniketa Deshpande

photos by - Pratap Morey

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The Music Project : Adil and Vasundhara

Adil Manuel and Vasundhara Vidalur are a Jazz/Funk/Soul duo based in New Delhi. The duo got together in January 2009 and has put together numerous collaborative performances in India and abroad. Vasundhara sings Gospel, RnB , Funk, Jazz and Soul. Since 2004, she has staged over 70 concerts and a musical with Artistes Unlimited

Adil Manuel is an active musician in the Delhi circuit and a power-house guitarist. Adil has been playing professionally for over 10 years with bands like Asphyxia, MRP and Olio and the Rock Opera.

Adil and Vasundhara also spearhead a collaborative Jazz - RnB outfit Adil Manuel : GuitarsVasundhara Vidalur : VocalsSaurabh Suman : Bass

The Hinglish Project

Welcome to 'The Hinglish Project'. Through this unique font design, you can tell the phonetic sound of a Hindi character by looking at the corresponding Roman letter superimposed on it. 

Hindi is written in the Devanagri script, which has many more characters than the English alphabet. This font, then, cannot teach you how to read words as they are spelt in Hindi, but its aim is to demystify individual letters in its script and make India more approachable. 

Despite the superficial distinctiveness of English and Hindi, the two borrow from the same phonetic pool - they both belong to the Indo-European group of languages. This font design playfully highlights these commonalities. To quote a now-popular phrase, "We're same same, but different!"

www.thehinglishproject.com 

Narendra Yadav opening at Gallery Maskara, Bombay

MARCH 22nd 2012
6:30 p.m.
Bombay
GALLERY MASKARA

Shail Belani | at Trident Gallery Mumbai

The Music Project : Zeb and Haniya via Tehelka

WALLPAPER* Magazine | India Edition

Wallpaper* magazine shifted HQ to Mumbai and Delhi with one goal: to produce as true a portrait as possible of the most eye-popping, synapse-snapping, pulse-pushing place on the planet.

Checkout behind the scenes of the photo shoot by contemporary photographer - Bharat Sikka.

In Plato's Cave | Alternative Photography Workshop, Delhi

A project collaboration of Goa-CAP and Lucida, curated by Vidisha Saini.

In Plato’s Cave is a week-long confluence of ideas on photography, engaging the participants in dialogue and debate through workshops, seminars and exhibitions. The focus of this edition is to revive and revisit practice of alternative processes of photography, in India.

Week-long workshops that are a combination of photography using the camera as well as camera-less techniques. Talks, presentations and other activities around history of photography and contemporary practices are planned.

Download Event Schedule: http://bit.ly/events_ipc

POOL | Indie Indi Design Magazine

POOL is India's monthly design magazine which aims to inspire via innovative approaches in never-seen-before Design/Innovation/Creative features.

Get access to Pool's first Anniversary Issue here!

'Maximum India' | at Kennedy Center

Sights, sounds and scents of India at Kennedy Center

Before the opening of the three-week Indian festival, the curator, designer and executive chef of Maximum India describe what can be seen and eaten at the Kennedy Center. (Madeline Marshall/The Washington Post)

March 1-20, 2011
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
India is home to a million art forms, both traditional and modern. maximum India brings you perhaps not a million, but many wonderful and unusual aspects of the country's diverse arts and culture, from folkloric to classical and contemporary. It will surprise and delight you with dance, music, and theater performed by India's most acclaimed artists. Film selections from the world's most robust movie industry, featuring both indie and Bollywood films; prize-winning authors reading, debating, conversing, and sharing their insights; exhibitions that astonish and confront; incredible and unimaginable crafts from exquisite collections; jewels that dazzle from the princely era of the Mughals and Maharajas. And, to top it all, feasts of Indian food for the entire three-week period of the festival, prepared by 12 world-class, award-winning Indian chefs, representing all regions of the country.