Thursdays Curator

Before the West gave it a name, the earth was already being honored. Long before "land art" entered the vocabulary of galleries and critics, South Asian hands were already at work — at thresholds, in courtyards, at the edge of the sacred and the everyday — drawing circles in rice flour and flower petals, tracing the shape of the universe onto the ground before sunrise. Not as monument. Not as statement. As offering. The mandala. The word itself comes from Sanskrit: circle, disc. But to call...

I have called myself an activist. I have named the wound and stood beside it. But there are days — and I will not pretend otherwise — when the knowing becomes too heavy to carry upright, when the mind retreats into a merciful fog just to survive the weight of what we have done and what we have refused to do. The crisis is real. The earth is telling us so in the only language it has left: heat, flood, erasure. And still, for those of us settled comfortably in the Global North — the nations...

Starting Thursdays was never about adding another art platform to an already crowded digital landscape. It emerged instead from a familiar tension in the contemporary art world: the persistent gap between who is making work and who is given space to be seen. While traditional galleries continue to privilege established names and market-driven trajectories, emerging and underrepresented artists are often left navigating visibility on their own. Thursdays exists to shift that focus — not as a...