Art confers meaning to our lives and the world around us. It makes an anxious girl cramped in her room reflect and learn so many things.
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The Golden Ratio: An Ancient Greek Formula Could Be Responsible For Most Hit Musicals
A formula found often in nature, many artists believe that following the golden ratio leads to the most aesthetically pleasing work. It can also accidentally turn up in musicals.
My Relationship With Art
How a childhood passion lost its lustre after academic strictures and a traumatic incident.
Hikikomori Artists: How Japan’s Extreme Recluses Find Creativity, Self-Discovery in Isolation
Seeking isolation can lead to creativity and a deeper understanding of oneself, as these artworks show.
My Art Doesn’t Smile
A poem on the culture of forced positivity in an artist's work, and how it is often similar to the ways women are expected to 'behave'.
In Photos | The Reopening of Dilli Haat
The usually bustling tourism spot lies largely empty with rows of abandoned shops and masked mannequins for company.
Heart For Art: Save Your Local Artists
Your local artists, who are alive and struggling, need you urgently.
The Lost Art of Revisiting Cinema
It's important for you to return to what once touched you and changed you at some point in life.
Ashamed Over My Mental Illness, I Realised Drawing Might Help Me – and Others – Cope
Finding solace in a daily act that has benefits scientists are just beginning to understand.
The Mazhab of Art: Must Language Have a Religion Too?
Why a two-day Hindustani writing workshop in Jaipur was cancelled.
