BMW Art Cars: Our Pick of 6 of the Best
Launched in 1975, the BMW Art Car Project invites leading artists to transform a vehicle. Here, we pick six of the most outstanding ever made
Artist Profiles
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Dhruva Mistry: The Artist Who Transformed Indian Sculpture
Speaking to us from his Baroda studio, sculptor Dhruva Mistry opens up about life as a self-employed artist and why he loves working from home
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Lubna Chowdhary: "I Had a Foot in Two Different Cultures"
The British artist discusses bringing together Eastern and Westerns influences in her work
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Art Playlists: Arpita Singh
We share 5 songs inspired by the artist’s dream-like compositions, following a major retrospective
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5 Questions to Chitra Ganesh
The feminist artist Chitra Ganesh tells us about her biggest influences — and the importance of speaking against the 'canon'
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In the Studio with Krishen Khanna
Art writer Rosalyn D’Mello describes her day at the artist’s studio, recounting a few of the stories he told her about his life as a young man
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David Hockney: Driven by Curiosity
Edith Devaney, curator at the Royal Academy, reveals what fuels the artist’s creative energies — from his 1995 BMW Art Car to his recent work on iPads
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A Travancore Scandal: Raja Ravi Varma’s Mahaprabha
Raja Ravi Varma’s depictions of women are often dismissed as sentimental or idealised, but his Mahaprabha sits apart from these dainty goddesses. Historian Manu S. Pillai writes about the magisterial woman whose dark, forbidding gaze inspired this little-known painting
