How do ideas originate? Are they a result of conversation or thought? Is an idea always borrowed and, if not, what makes it unique—the process or the stimulus? If art is the articulation of an internal world, how do three individuals coalesce? Is collaborative work more challenging, or less intrepid? These questions are useful when…

When both husband and wife are artists, competition may be a stimulus to creation. A personal account of the contemporary Indian painters Manu and Madhavi Parekh by Shakti Bhatt ‘Artist couples always fear competition and comparison’                                                                                                                                                                                    Madhavi Parekh  ‘The idea of competition between an artist couple is bullshit, nonsense, and clichéd.’                                                                                                                        …

Is art for the masses or for those with more refined tastes? The question, so often asked and so often unanswerable, has probably been around as long as art itself, which is to say a long, long time. The romantic and socialist ideal of creating art that lies within the grasp of the majority is…