Trop Picks: Mango
As we're coming to the end of mango season, the Tropicalist pays homage to Paul Gauguin, ill-fated chronicler of our indigenous bounty.
Dancers by Ye Qianyu
A series of mid-twentieth century sketches by Shanghainese artist Ye Qianyu.
The age of grobalism
Yeah, no. That's not a typo.
The evolution of pan-Asianism, Pt. I: Japan
A four-part series where we examine ideas of Asia, past and present.
Between the lines with Uncle Ho
Sometimes propaganda can be art and art propaganda.
A matter of perspective
Why you might want to take the Kardashians seriously.
The pampered pachyderms of Mysore
What it feels like for a girl
What is the feminine mystique?
Get to work
Reimagining work as torture.
Jazz
Part of a beautiful series by Mumbai-based artist Gajanan Kabade, in which he captures the city in all its lights, moods and colours.
The first comic strip?
To the snobs who don't consider comic books art, consider this: it has classical origins. An introduction to the first comic strip.
Whither the city?
When America was modernizing, its artists embraced modernity, warts and all. Now Asia is having its own modern moment, but our artists remain markedly ambivalent about modernity.
A map of Asia that doesn't include Utopia isn't worth glancing at*
Like hypochondriac dads in their quest for perfect health, there isn't a social experiment that we haven't tried in the quest for Utopia.
A building of note: the Leeum
Completed in 2004, South Korea's Leeum was born of a Cinderella moment.
Trop picks: Monet's garden in Naoshima
Claude Monet's iconic paintings were inspired by the work of the great Japanese woodcut artist, Utagawa Hiroshige.
The Chinese influence on Indian art: Deccani paintings
Little is known about the Chinese influence on Indian art. But the two civilisations have a long history of capturing each other's imaginations.
The Chinese influence on Indian modern art: M. F. Husain and Xu Beihong
M.F. Husain's horse paintings owe an artistic debt to Xu Beihong's paintings of the same, reiterating the Chinese influence on Indian modern art.
Stop. Breathe. And get over yourself.
The conceptual art of Mono-Ha was a Japanese attempt to sabotage the inexorable rise of a Western vision of modernity.
A shooting star: Amrita Sher-Gil
On a cold winter’s day in Budapest, in 1913, the Indo-Hungarian artist Amrita Sher-Gil made the first of the many dramatic entrances of her life.
Trop picks: Tulips
The original Tulipmania.