Artandculture

In Suchi Reddy's latest art project, a chance at forging our future, viewing AI as an extension of the senses

In an interview with Firstpost, Suchi Reddy reflects on the accessibility of her work, including me+you, her foremost brush with artificial intelligence, and what the future might have in store for the global community.

In rural Kashmir, traditional bone-setters walk the tightrope between believers and sceptics

The traditional bone-setters in Kashmir do not have any formal qualification, however, the remedies and treatment they offer have earned them quite a bit of fame.

Explained: As The Office completes 20 years, revisiting what the show says about mockumentaries as a genre

While it was the British version that gave the show its initial thrust, it was the 2005 American version that took the show and the mockumentary genre to unprecedented heights, helping it achieve cult status, and in many ways – global dominion.

A tauntingly good hip-hop album, or a rewiring of pop DNA: Tyler, the Creator's Call Me if You Get Lost has it both ways

It’s as thoroughgoing a rap album as Tyler has released — rarely has he been this keen to flaunt his bona fides. But it also demonstrates the pop potential of Tyler’s now-signature approach to hip-hop, the way his post-Pharrell embrace of chords and melody is in fact in conversation with 1960s pop, French chanson and acoustic soul and funk.

Da Vinci's stamp-sized sketch of a head of a bear sells for an exceptional US $12.2 mn at Christie's auction

Leonardo’s delicate silverpoint study “Head of a Bear,” measuring just under 3 inches by 3 inches, and thought to date from the early 1480s, was included in Christie’s summer “Exceptional Sale” of high-value historical works of art assembled from a range of collecting categories.

Explained: The technical reason behind why films made for Netflix look more like TV shows

Most made-for-Netflix productions don’t look like the cinema we’re used to. Why?

Famed British seascape by JMV Turner to be auctioned; the painting is expected to sell at a whopping US $8 mn

The seascape canvas is on display alongside over 650 other paintings, sculptures and decorative arts in Sotheby’s multi-roomed exhibit.

Dear Miss Metropolitan: Author Carolyn Ferrell's second is a harrowing novel; reading it is an endurance test

Ferrell tells the story of three young girls, Black and biracial, who are kidnapped and thrown into the basement of a decaying house in Queens. Once there, they are tied down and tortured and raped for a decade, reminiscent of the kidnappings in Cleveland from 2002 to 2013.

After months of virtual rehearsals, Royal Ballet students all set to present their first live performance post pandemic lockdowns

Students at the Royal Ballet School, having fled to homes around the world for months of virtual training, are reuniting for their annual showcase.

Explained: Augmented reality, and how artists and institutions used it to make culture an at-home experience during the pandemic

If visitors could no longer go the artworks, maybe AR could help bring the artworks to them.