Author: ARTRA

Where are the women artists in Sri Lankan art history? ARTRA Magazine’s highly anticipated edition ‘Women & Modernism’ 69 sets out to explore this pivotal question, with a focus on the Modernist period in Sri Lanka during the 1900s.

What if the future of art isn’t bigger and larger in scale, but more intimate and meaningful?

Traditional forms, techniques, and craft are rich inheritances that push forward the stories of familial legacies across generations in South Asia, in particular. Artist Anoli Perera sat down with us for ARTRA Magazine’s South Asian Contemporary Art Edition 68, to discuss the liberating essence of her textile practice, enriched by a home and childhood dominated…

Tayeba Lipi, 2019, Mirror, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York City The human body is a social site, as much as it is a biological organism. It is both personal and public, which consciously, and at times unconsciously, participates in transmitting multiplex of meanings to us as spectators. The curated works of Ali Kazim (b.1979, Pakistan),…

Constructing intersections between the past and present, art poignantly reflects the cultural, technological, and political transcendence of ever-evolving landscapes. In ARTRA Magazine’s South Asian Contemporary Art Edition, we conversed with featured artist Ali Kazim (Pakistan), whose timeless works of art are amidst seminal public collections of global repute, including the Tate, Ashmolean Museum, and British…