In a time where fashion often spotlights celebrity haute couture and luxury labels, Maqsad Clothing takes a different path—one that speaks to the everyday person. This isn’t fashion for the runway or for the Met Gala; it’s fashion for the real world, where identity is less about what you wear and more about who you […]
The Kleine Zaal in the late-19th-century Concertgebouw rewards focus more than spectacle, which made it a good room for award-winning sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun and the virtuosic tabla player Yama Sarshar to captivate. They walked on together in humble demeanour and offered a few clear, endearing sentences about what the audience would hear, then set […]
“I think when the poems came back to me, there was a kind of a lightness, a recklessness that I hadn’t experienced before”, Jeet Thayil remarks. When he published his acclaimed 2008 collection, These Errors Are Correct– an intimate meditation on grief in its varied forms– he publicly announced that it was the last book […]
Canadian singer-songwriter Elysia Biro’s approach to writing music sidesteps the predictable, in just the right measure. Her work weaves together jazz, soul, and pop, marked by raw delivery and eager storytelling. The influence of Carole King, Norah Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, and The Japanese House is palpable in her vocal style and improvisations, often arranged a […]
In a time where fashion often spotlights celebrity haute couture and luxury labels, Maqsad Clothing takes a different path—one that speaks to the everyday person. This isn’t fashion for the runway or for the Met Gala; it’s fashion for the real world, where identity is less about what you wear and more about who you […]
Throughout the ages, humanity has looked to the cosmos for guidance, intricately weaving the natural world into the fabric of daily life. Elements like trees, with their life-sustaining presence from sapling to ancient grove, have played a pivotal role in this connection. Tessel van der Putte’s recent exhibition, Root to Rise, eloquently explores our deep […]
For decades Los Angeles has led movements in modern art, photography and culture. Home to an industry in global entertainment, the city becomes, perhaps, contained in the imagination of the visitor, the observer, the artist. Sweet, sunny LA; the LA of commercial art, the city of film and television, the vibrant step-sibling to New York’s […]
“A lot of women—especially young women—are diagnosed with the syndrome but often don’t know that it is best approached holistically.” In conversation with Mishti Khatri
“An accidental guitar riff giving genesis to the turbulent blend that is Staircase.”
A visual escape into an ethereal space once reserved for the spiritually enlightened