カテゴリー: Art and design
Participants including Aravani trans art collective are shifting perceptions in male-dominated societyEven through the haze of shimmering heat and thick Delhi dust, the mural is impossible to miss. Pinks, blues, greens and yellows pop off the wall, com…
Over three generations in India, members of the Jogi family have preserved their culture with unique and detailed ink works, now on display in MelbourneGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastSangita Jogi’s illustration Wom…
Sallie Culy, who has Williams Syndrome, is the first artist with an intellectual disability to exhibit in Wellington’s public art Lightbox programme“It’s good to be alive,” artist Sallie Culy says as she finishes a ham and cheese sandwich at one of the…
Khaula Jamil explores the difficulties faced by Bengali-speakers in Pakistan, and how they are filtering down the generationsThere are two kinds of Bengalis in Pakistan. The first are those who were living in West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan) and ch…
A MoMA exhibition takes a new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka after independenceLight lands softly on concrete walls in a series of silver gelatin prints by an unknown photographer. These small, s…
With the military increasing its use of informants, rappers and artists must keep their identities secret, even from one anotherEarly one morning last February, a group of young people gathered on a street corner in Myanmar armed with brushes and bucke…
From Qatari fishermen to Peruvian chimpanzees, these images represent the best of the Sony World Photography awards 2022, taken from 61 countries Continue reading…
Faced with increasing state violence, young people across Myanmar are learning to fight. This is one young woman’s storyRead more in our Reporting Myanmar seriesIn the year since the 1 February coup, young people across Myanmar have risked their lives …
Faced with increasing state violence, young people across Myanmar are learning to fight. This is one young woman’s storyRead more in our Reporting Myanmar seriesIn the year since the 1 February coup, young people across Myanmar have risked their lives …
The photojournalist Alex McBride has been embedded with rebel forces in Chin state, Myanmar, during a critical moment for the country, as the regime assaults the area in a worrying echo of the Rohingya genocideAs a 17-year-old, Mai Zacer Mawi* was used…
Site of the Pillar of Shame at the city’s oldest university is under guard after workmen dismantled statueHong Kong’s oldest university has removed a statue mourning those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and posted guards at the site where…
Since its invention in the 1840s, photography has played an integral part in Indian art history. Although it is often said that India is the most photographed country in the world, the history of its representation is more complicated, and more politic…
‘He had been used for logging on the Andaman Islands. When I found him, he was 60, living in retirement – and loving his swims’I lived at sea for 10 years. I co-owned and ran a global kiteboarding expedition business. We’d sail around the world on a 60…
The statue, once on sale at Sotheby’s, was recovered amid claims it was part of a precious trove of stolen artefactsFor more than 20 years, those who lived in and around the village of Lokhari in Uttar Pradesh, India, have prayed for the return of an i…
The hardline Islamist Taliban movement, which stormed to power earlier this year after ousting the Western-backed government, has allowed all boys and younger girls back to class, but has not let girls attend secondary school Continue reading…