Imagination Translated to Paintings: In Conversation with Hiran Sarkar
This week, Bishnupriya Chowdhuri of The Antonym engages in a conversation with artist Hiran Sarkar who happens to have designed the cover page of the first print edition of the magazine...
In Conversation with Anubha Fatepuria— Ankita Bose
Interviewed by Ankita Bose Anubha Fatehpuria is an actor (since 1995) and a practicing architect (since 2001). She is the recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi’s prestigious Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puruskar 2013-14, The…...
Abloom in Plurality, In Conversation with Mia Lecomte – Bishnupriya Chowdhuri
Born in Milan to a French father and an Italian mother, Mia has known crossroads, connections, and multiplicities of voices deeply since the beginning. A poet and a scholar,…...
The “Eye of the Beholder” in Digital Painting: Atrayee Guha in Conversation with Edward Supranowicz
One does not have to “worry about wasted canvas” or confining a piece to a single collector when it comes to digital painting. And these, according to Edward Michael Supranowicz, are some of the greatest rewards of digital painting.Supranowicz,…...
Inspired by Nature: Conversation with Cynthia Yatchman – Atrayee Guha
Cynthia Yatchman, The Antonym Artist of the Month, is as comfortable working with cake decorating tools as she is with latex house paints.The Seattle-based artist and art instructor uses her foyer as her studio and…...
Then, As I Kept Going – Told by Debjani Bhaduri
Then, As I Kept Going is a Bengali story by Shahaduz Zaman, translated by Noora Shamsi Bahar. Read here. The story is told by Debjani Bhaduri https://youtu.be/efbF9z6Ou-o ...
Addressing Abstraction in American Folk Art: Dialogue with Hanna Wright – Atrayee Guha
Hanna Marie Dean Wright, our Artist of the Month, is a self-taught folk artist from Keavy, Kentucky, who also teaches special education to school children. Known for her “Starmen” series, Hanna enjoys painting abstract figures and…...
Life in a Canyon and Other Musings on the Art of Photography: Colloquy with Deb Bandyopadhyay – Atrayee Guha
What happens when a scientist, poet and photographer engage in a common creative pursuit? And what if all of them are the same person? Well, Deb Bandyopadhyay is that person. He is a trained physicist…...
Patachitra: The Picture Story of Bengal – Modhura Banerjee
Patachitra is a unique art tradition of Bengal and Orissa that essentially presupposes the graphic narrative or the concept of modern cinema. It perfectly interlaces sequential visual images with an…...