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Nilufar’s Grand Debut At Nilaya Anthology Curated By Nina Yashar - Design Pataki

While we are all told that embracing your roots and honouring your rich legacy is essential to timeless design, true power lies in pushing creative boundaries through innovative collaborations that transcend geographic and cultural limits. Staying curious, as we will learn from cultural icon Nina Yashar, is essential to creating the most unexpected work. The freshly unveiled Nilaya Anthology in Lower Parel Mumbai does just that.
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Enter the World of Miniatures: An Interview with Instagram’s Miniature Artists

Staying indoors for long periods has encouraged many of us to pursue new hobbies like collecting objects, DIY crafting, even baking. Our team at Design Pataki, however, was particularly intrigued by the resurgence of miniature dollhouses and sculptures on social media. And so, we spoke to three miniature artists to gain perspective on their work. From wanting to regain a sense of control to venturing onto a storytelling adventure, their answers give us insight into this new hobby of art turned into professional craftsmanship.
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Meryl Yana Explores Materiality And Touch Through Her Residency At The Museum Of Goa

French artist Meryl Yana contemplates the loss of touch and physical sensations during her residency with the Museum Goa. It seems fitting for this to be one of the major themes in her work as an artist who graduated in the midst of a pandemic. She talks to Design Pataki about the ways in which “we’ve all been robbed of the opportunity to experience intimacy and sensuality”. A Parisian based in London, Yana is a graduate of Chelsea College of Arts. Her work is multi-disciplinary and usually responds to the environment around her. It is abstract, meditative and bold.
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Dance Movements And Light Photography Come Together With Bhangra Lexicon: A Conversation With Hardeep Sahota And Tim Smith

British dancer and founder of World Bhangra Day Hardeep Sahota collaborated with Bradford-based photographer and researcher for ‘Bhangra Lexicon’ at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Together they created a visual dictionary that records, in long-exposure photographs, over 300 ephemeral body movements and gestures associated with traditional dance forms like Bhangra, Kathak, breakdancing, and Irish dancing. For each image, a dancer performs a move while holding coloured lights in semi-darkness, so t
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What Jacob Vilató Did Next: A Conversation with Picasso’s Great Nephew

A hybrid between an artist’s studio and a design firm–Vilató i Vilató– that works across mediums, releases independent design collections, and collaborates with brands, Jacob Vilató’s new project, is an ambitious art monster. Born into a family of artists and doctors and trained to be an architect, a few years ago Vilató pivoted to be in design and fine art. “So there is one part of me that still functions and thinks like an architect and another that is developing a taste for painting and desig
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Chila Kumari Singh Takes Over Tate Britain With ‘Remembering A Brave New World’

Last year we saw the festival of lights take center stage in various museum and gallery programming events, including at the Tate Britain that inaugurated its Winter Commission that was given to Chila Kumari Singh Burman in 2020. The show opened on Diwali weekend in November which according to her was a complete coincidence. Design Pataki spoke with iconic British artist about the opportunity to remake the facade of Tate Britain, South Asian identity and what it takes to have an art career that
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French Artist Edith Meusnier On How She Creates Sustainable Textile Art

Experiencing the work of French artist Edith Meusnier is like walking through an enchanted environment. There is beauty all around us but how often do we stop to take it all. Meusnier’s work urges viewers to pause and examine the expansiveness of the world around us. This lockdown in particular has made us all acutely aware of the need to take breaks and pay close attention to people and places close in location to us. With her textile interventions, Meusnier is able to foreground nature while c
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Renowned Gallerist Sundaram Tagore On Buying Art In A Virtual Art World

Sundaram Tagore describes his work as the facilitation of arts between cultures. Born in Calcutta, brought up in various parts of North India, educated at Oxford (plus the United States) and having lived in Singapore, it should come as no surprise that he has opened galleries in four different time zones. Sundaram Tagore galleries are located in Hong Kong, Singapore, New York and as of this year in London as well. There is a strong inclination towards cultural exchange with an international pers
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Making Space For Cultural Identity: A Conversation With Sound Artist Lakshmi Ramgopal

As a way of maintaining ties to her Indian cultural heritage, Lakshmi Ramgopal started learning Carnatic music and the classical dance form Bharatanatyam when she was in elementary school. This wasn’t easy considering her home was one of many in suburban Boston which was predominantly white and so she often found herself at cultural crossroads. In addition to being a sound artist under the moniker of Lykanthea, Ramgopal is also a historian of the Roman Empire and currently teaches as Assistant P