The most famous beastly sculpture in the college town of Athens, Ga., is — improbably — not a bulldog. It is an 11-foot-tall welded steel horse, an abstract labyrinth of undulations and crescents, created at the University of Georgia by a visiting Chicago sculptor, Abbott Pattison, in 1954. When a crane first heaved Pattison’s mammoth…
It looks like a serene snapshot from Ukraine’s battlefield: A group of armor-clad soldiers huddled around a makeshift table scattered with food and playing cards. Some laugh or smoke, and one lounges on the ground, smiling as he scrolls through his phone. The photograph is unlike others of the Ukrainian front that have rallied people…
“A journalist finds himself in the woods.” Marc Da Costa, a digital artist with a Ph.D. in anthropology, was speaking from the controls of an artificial intelligence-driven video installation at the Onassis Foundation’s ONX Studio, a high-tech media lab in the Olympic Tower in Midtown Manhattan. He was talking to the computer that runs this…
Four days into the year and it’s all possibility right now. You have an idea of how things will go — what you’re looking forward to, what’s going to be challenging — but you’re working off archival material. Memory and experience, educated guesses. “2025 is going to be very difficult for me,” a friend said…
Earlier in the season, Frank Lampard spent some time with Rodri at Manchester City, breaking down the Ballon d’Or winner’s game as part of a “midfield masterclass” that he was filming. “I did about a 50-second run of him against Aston Villa where he was scanning through the pitch,” former Chelsea and England midfielder Lampard…
When we think of cat portraits in Indian art, Jamini Roy often comes to mind. His ‘Cat stealing a prawn’ remains one of the most enduring images by an Indian modernist. However, few are aware of R B Bhaskaran’s artistic fascination with feline figures. A marquee name in the 1960s Madras Art Movement, Bhaskaran frequently…
Oscar Wilde once famously wrote that “to concede one goal direct from a corner is a misfortune, to concede two in eight days looks like carelessness.” The thoughts of Oscar, noted corner-kick scholar, may have been rushing through the heads of anyone associated with Manchester United recently after they allowed not one but two ‘olimpicos’…
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Jasprit Bumrah during a training session at Melbourne Cricket Ground. (Photo by Josh Chadwick/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Team India pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah is arguably the best fast bowler in the world right now. The Indian vice-captain has even intimidated the Aussies to such an extent that there’s no denying the fact that the Aussies…
In the country’s busy art calendar, The Art of India has managed to carve a special niche for itself. In an interview, Delhi-based art historian and author Alka Pande, who has curated the forthcoming editions of the event in Delhi and Mumbai, talks about her attempt to capture the spirit of Indian art The Indian…