Brewhouse ♥ Dileep Sharma

Please enjoy the adventures of Kunwarji, the artist's pseudonym, and his muses in a world where urban pop meets ethnic mythology and stereotypes cease to exist. sexy and funny, we ♥ Dileep Sharma's watercolors.

All images are copyright of the artist, and courtesy of the internet.

Old wood from Old Delhi

New Delhi All Stars created by Diederick Kraaijeveld out of originally painted old wood, salvaged in New Delhi. This piece will be auctioned for a very good cause: the Rotary International backed project ´End Polio Now´ in India. Check out more amazing pieces out of vintage reclaimed wood on www.oudhout.com

The Brewhouse ♥ handpaintedtype.com

Hooray for our friend Hanif who is documenting the typefaces of road side painters across India, digitizing it and archiving it for future generations. It will even be exhibited in Centre Pompidou in Paris this summer! Way to go captain! 


HandpaintedType is a project that is dedicated to preserving the typographic practice of street painters around India. These painters, with the advent of local DTP (desktop Publishers) shops, are rapidly going out of business and shops switching to the quicker, cheaper but uglier vinyls. Many painters have given up their practice altogether.

HandpaintedType is a collaborative project. So if you'd like to contribute or collaborate, get in touch with them!
One of many awesome examples from HandpaintedType:

Painter Umesh - Dhoraji / Rajkot, Gujarat
Painter Umesh 27, is not a street painter but he used to be one. Umesh earlier ran a painting shop in Dhoraji, Gujarat with his partner Mayank. After having completed his education with a Fine Arts degree from the famed M.S University in Baroda, Gujarat, he joined the advertising industry. Currently he works as an art director in the Gurgaon office of Publicis. His partner Mayank still runs the painting shop.

Street art: a state of affairs

In a country with a long history of mural advertising, rangoli, painted trucks and visual culture, it’s surprising that graffiti and street art are just starting to evolve - from declarations of love to visual concepts, from something very foreign to something very Indian. Bravo! The new Indian street art. 

We therefore roamed the streets of Delhi and canvassed the internet to find the coolest examples, from now and from before, by both foreign and Indian artists. Enjoy and if you do come across anything new don’t keep it to yourself.

Storm water pipes by Urfun in Surat

Tape art by Aakash Nihalani

Work by JR as part of his 28 millimeters / Women are heroes project

Stencil art by C215 in Delhi

Stefan Unter and Rah Kaishi in Rishikesh as found on Flickr

Pieces by Poch and Rock in Mumbai

Anonymous: mother Calcutta, Calcutta / flying auto, Khan market, Delhi

For more cool examples of street art - check out:

http://www.woostercollective.com/

http://www.streetsy.com/

http://www.unurth.com

Time Out Delhi has organised The Writing on the Wall: Time Out's graffiti film screenings on May 10-13.

The Brewhouse ♥ Meera Sethi

Beautiful work by Toronto based creative Meera Sethi

Beautiful map

Amazing typographic map of India by Paula Scher


“They’re all wrong,” Scher says. “I mean, nothing’s in the right spot. I put in what I feel like. It’s my comment on information in general. We receive a lot of information all the time and mostly it’s lies or slight mistruths.”

Anish Kapoor - first ever exhibition in India

This is super exciting! Anish Kapoor will have his first ever exhibition in India. The exhibit will take place both in Delhi and Mumbai and is the largest and most ambitious exhibition of Kapoor's work ever to be shown. It will feature a selection of sculptures and installations spanning the breadth of his career, from early pigment-based works of the 1980s, to his most recent wax installations. 

For more info on the exhibition check India Art News or the National Gallery of Modern Art Delhi

Delhi
Where: National Gallery of Modern Art, Jaipur House, India Gate, New Delhi 110 003
When: 28 November - 27 February 2011 (Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 5pm, Thursday till 8pm, closed on Monday and National Holidays)
Entry: Indian: Rs: 10 / Foreign National: Rs: 150 / Student/Child: Rs: 1

Mumbai
Where: Mehboob Studios, 100 Hill Road, Bandra (W), Mumbai 400 050
When: 30 November - 16 January 2011 (daily from 9am to 9pm)
Entry: FREE although booking is required +91 22 40203660/61/62/63
Images above are taken from the artists website