Indusudha Ghosh : between art and revolution
The 20th century witnessed India rise from a jewel in Britain’s imperial crown to Independence. India’s struggle for freedom is an ongoing endeavour but...
Remembering Damyanti Chowla : one of the finest modern artists of India
In 2020, we celebrate 100th birth anniversary of Damyanti Chowla - an important artist, who has been largely missing from Indian art-history books. After...
Each Night Put Kashmir in Your Dreams : a series by artist Nilima Sheikh
From being ‘paradise on earth’, to being stereotyped with images of violence and political unrest, Kashmir’s story has been the subject of contentious debate. ...
Kshitindranath Majumdar: The Saint Artist
When the Nationalism movement was at its peak, the artists of Bengal, under the tutelage of Abanindranath Tagore worked towards the renaissance of Indian...
Lightning : When M.F Husain painted India of the 1970s
Think M.F Husain and the words that come to your mind are : horses, umbrellas, barefoot, Madhuri Dixit, Picasso, Bombay. Think deeper, and there...
Revisiting Satyajit Ray’s ‘Pather Panchali’ … through Sculpture!
On May 3rd, 1955 'Pather Panchali' (Song of the Little Road) premiered at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, firmly establishing Satyajit...
Chitranibha Chowdhury: the first woman painter of Bangladesh and Shantiniketan’s first female professor
Even though women have made art for centuries in the Indian subcontinent, the historical narrative has somewhat favoured the male painterly traditions. This is...
Mangala Bayi : the invisible artist & sibling of Raja Ravi Varma
Mangala Bayi Thampuratty (1866 - 1954) was the first woman artist of the nineteenth century who worked within an atelier or a studio. She...
How Madhvi Parekh’s art inspires us to keep learning
Does education end with school? Or do we stop learning once we graduate? At The Heritage Lab, we aspire to learn (and share what...
Rediscovering the art of Atasi Barua
There have been numerous women painters in twentieth century India but unfortunately most of them remain under-represented. Atasi Barua is one such painter who...