Contributors
Yasra Daud Khoker is an Architecture and Art Writer working between Jaipur and Dubai, with a special interest in Art and Architectural History, Theory and Criticism. Sandhya Bord ewekar is an Art Critic and Curator based in Baroda. Sidd hart…
Cover Story
Art Education: What No One Told You Yasra Daud Khoker The philosophy and art of Shishir Bhatt forms the adumbration of the emblem of self-education. Making art for over 30 years, and having learned through self-enquiry and exploration, he believes…
International
Andrew Renton, Goldsmiths College: an interview Rajesh Punj A&D: When I consider ‘curating’ as a profession, I am always prone to consider several disciplines collectively, ‘critical writing’, ‘facilitator’, ‘exhibition’s organiser’, ‘administrator’, ‘artist liaison’, ‘promoter’, and ‘creator’. Are these curatorial threads…
International
Indian Galleries at Art Basel Uma Prakash Due to the prohibitive cost of attending International art fairs, very few Indian galleries participate in art fairs, although, the numbers are increasing every year. However, Art Basel’s thriving market and opportunity for…
Photo Essay
Ajaya kumar Spread throughout Tamilnadu are sculptural images of mythical/ancient characters (traditionally Panchapandavas) that belong to a unique art form worthy of being presented in contemporary mega shows like major Art fairs & the Biennials of our times. However, these…
Book Review
My Love Affair with Katharine Kuh JohnyML One day Katharine found that a bunch of postal stamps were missing from her work desk. A solo show by a young artist, Charles Sebree, was on at that time in her gallery….
Cover Story
An Inconclusive Autopsy on a Non-existent Corpse Waswo X. Waswo But there are differences of course, and I can dispute my own words. To understand those differences it is good to remember Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession movement he guided in…
Cover Story
Framing violence, pain and others through the moving images of B.V. Suresh Aparna Roy Baliga Since 2001, B.V. Suresh has started working on videos. His very first work ‘Introspection’ is based on photographic stills from documentaries on the second world…
Cover Story
Imaging their Subjectivity : Transsexuals and Photo graphy Siddharth Sivakumar After dealing with trans-sexuality from a diachronic perspective, in her Alice at Frederick’s of Hollywood, Mariette situates trans-sexuality in a synchronic time-frame. The image has captured the three representatives of…
Essay
‘THE PHOTOS (C)HOPPED BODY’ Digital photography and the politics of desire Bipin Balachandran When everyone becomes a photographer as what is happening nowadays, the amateur/professional distinction becomes blur in photography. Any event can be recorded and circulated publically. This flood…
Photo Essay
Dilip Banerjee I never thought of photography as a profession when pondering over my carrier options. But capturing the colours of human lives, the decisive moments in black and white without shades of grey is perhaps most rewarding. To me,…
Photo Essay
Shefali Munjal I like to portray the people living on the edge. In the present series I have showed people from the high ranges like Leh and Laddakh. Serenity is a sort of predominant theme in my works though behind…
Photo Essay
Pranab Seal As she steps forward a new world awaits her, land of dreams or land of dying hope where camouflaged demons await in gloom, from light to darkness is this right direction
International
RAM SHERGILL Everything Beautiful Rajesh Punj Immediately after the shoot, Shergill walked the half distance from Treacy’s studio to Isabella Blow’s apartment, let in by Blow herself he recalls she was on the telephone with the American Vogue, and she…
VOL.18 NO.126 -127
JULY - AUGUST, 2022