What It Feels Like for a Girl
What is the feminine mystique?
Bad Gals/ Boys
Minis
Get to Work
Reimagining work as torture.
The City
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.
Material Culture
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.
The City
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.
Immaterial Culture
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.
The Jungle
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.
Material Culture
A Building of Note: the Leeum
Completed in 2004, South Korea’s Leeum was born of a Cinderella moment.
International Relations
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.
International Relations
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.