Let me begin by saying there's excitement in these pieces – refinement, rawness, probably most adjectives you might associate with art ...

Nazimbe with his paintings: Photo credit Shaari. Take a hike Edgelords, this exhibition isn’t going to curb your teen angst – come back...

A house in Male - credit unknown. To step back and take the world into account, that’s the lot of the critic. Now imagine a life that is...

From the Gallery 350 exhibition. 'hold' ends on 20 December 23. Aishath Huda’s works at the Gallery 350 have no inscriptions – they are...

Fenfulhi is a band worth keeping tabs on.

Some thoughts on artists seeking acknowledgment and validation.

Hassan Niyaz's debut exhibition at Art Gallery Male' marks the waypoints of an artist in transit. You can see flashes of realism here in...

Out in the sun sits a girl, painting to 80s hits and sometimes a playlist made by her younger sister. She paints an abstract map —...

I look inward in this wan light. It gives me peace, finding this part of me, this little oasis of order in the wilderness. I smell its...

I do all sorts of things when I'm bored, I fake myself some interest in the things people talk about these days, although it's always...

Today, we are honouring the memory of late Sarudhaaru Dhon Manik (Dhombe), a man who lived a life so extraordinary, to determine where to...

In the late hours of night, long after all light of day had dissipated, the sea encircling the city was black and endless. It draped over...

If Faree contains a message, it may be this: we are products of our social settings. As people embedded in particular milieus, Ahmed...

In 1990 The 20th Century BC Band presented to the world ‘Ehcheh Kalheh’ live and for the first time. In the video four men are seen at...

all right, i bet everyone is keen to know about kula sudha ira because rumours were doing the rounds, some said it was invitees only, my...

On a Friday evening, at the ‘Blinkers Off’ exhibition at the Avahteri Gallery, I was observing a drawing, one of the larger portraits of...

Led made his first appearance to the public eye by closing the Katti Hivvaru Festival of 2015 with a set that was nothing short of...

It is well past eight in the evening, and I am sitting with a friend, sipping a cinnamon iced tea at the newly opened Oevaru Cafe’ and...

A tired evening in July, not all too long ago, we found ourselves walking along the rutted outskirts of West Henveiru. With the weight of...

Post-punk is alive and well in the Maldives; Lah, the second album from Kushehnooney lays to rest any doubts to the contrary. While the...