Araku Coffee is the product of over two decades of work by the Hyderabad-based Naandi Foundation in Araku Valley, a Naxalite-dominated part of Andhra Pradesh. Naandi began by organising tribal communities into self-governing cooperatives and then equipping them with science-based knowledge that draws from nature’s biorhythmic cycles. Over the years, this has made farming more…
New Amsterdam School held their Spring Talent Show Fundraiser yesterday at our Kent Avenue Arts Center Project. We were delighted to host them for the first organized community event we’ve had in our space. The New Amsterdam School community is composed of such a talented and creative group of parents, teachers and friends; it was…
Came across David Adjaye’s Dirty House in London. It had a bit of a makeover.
Really enjoyed Eva LeWitt’s installation at Luhring Augustine Gallery in Chelsea. If only I had the ceiling height in my home. https://www.luhringaugustine.com/exhibitions/eva-lewitt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Zayed_Grand_Mosque
What a stunning museum and so hard to capture in pictures by an amateur photographer. But here’s a snapshot of the visit. https://www.louvreabudhabi.ae/
A brief selection of images captured during our visit to the Dubai Expo 2020 https://www.expo2020dubai.com/en
The monumental paintings by Georges Mathieu currently showing at Perrotin in the Lower East Side make you want to spring into action. Shown in the picture: Paris, Capital of the Arts, 1965 https://leaflet.perrotin.com/view/116/
Single line of light at Kent Avenue Arts Center
Big Bird in Blue? Yes, please.The Roof Garden Commission: Alex Da Corte, As Long as the Sun Lasts https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/roof-commission-alex-da-corte Curator Shanay Jhaveri interviews Alex Da Corte about his installation. See the interview here: https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/videos/2021/5/alex-da-corte-as-long-as-the-sun-lasts
Pictures from a visit to The Met. The Facade Commission: Carol Bove, The séances aren’t helping https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/facade-commission-carol-bove
We recently received a shout out from Araku Coffee India for our Araku Coffee project in Bengaluru. A project done in collaboration with Shonan Trehan of Mumbai based Labwerk. It’s been an honor to work with the entire team and especially the Araku Coffe team and their co-founder and now friend Manoj Kumar @manoj_naandi. His…
Spotted in Man’s World India, “Araku Coffee’s New Flagship Cafe in India: What You Need to Know”
The first-of-its-kind, the café is the result of the hard work of Andhra’s tribals by Smitha Menon, Condé Nast Traveller See the link below to “New in Bengaluru: ARAKU Café raises the bar for coffee shops in the country,” an article by Smitha Menon in Condé Nast Traveller. New in Bengaluru: ARAKU Café raises the…