Art in itself is a balancing act. But art that attempts to contribute something of worth to the contemporary dialogue, whether politically, socially, or in other forms of commentary, runs an exponentially bigger risk of falling flat. The artist that tries to do this is either consciously or unconsciously going against the very idea of […]
NOTES: OF STAFF & CANVAS Note1 – Back, To A Future-Leaning Past: Jazz and the visual arts have become fast friends during the past half-century or so. For a genre that’s been represented, for the greater part of its existence, by stark B&W portraits with lots of cigarette smoke and a bluish tint, the […]
The Quest For Movement- Why We Need Artistic Criticism in Auroville What makes a city a city? Not population, because then we’d be more of a Hamlet of Dawn than a City. Not big buildings, since Citadines, Town Hall, and Solar Kitchen are about the most imposing public structures we have, aside from the Matrimandir. […]
