Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

    • Month: February 2014

    Editorial

    EDITORIAL

    That little nip in the air still freshens up the soul as you step outside this February. We welcome the coming of spring with a new zest as new possibilities are no more a word out of a work of…

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    News

    NEWS

    Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar Studio Art is screening works on master blaster Sachin Tendulkar by Gurgaon based famous artist Sanjay Mehta. On the occasion of Sachin Tendulkar’s 200th Special Test series dedicated to him, Creative Voiz has organized a special…

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    Cover Story

    COVER STORY

    K.G. Subramanyan: A Life Fully Lived Sandhya Bordewekar Sandhya Bordewekar in conversation with Prof. K G Subramanyan about his life as a student in Santiniketan. Sandhya Bordewekar: You went to Santiniketan in 1944, aged 20. Santiniketan was a long, long…

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    Essay

    ESSAY

    Indian Art School Practices and Dissolving of ‘Construed Will’ H. A. Anil Kumar Art education in the Indian context is an unresolved issue. It is the construed will or the lack of it to address it which is more pedagogically…

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    Feature

    FEATURE

    Once Upon a Time: The Wonder Year s Yasra Daud Khoker As we grow older, we lose the ability to wonder. Big words and big things overshadow the little things that once seemed so big. Logic takes over solutions wrung…

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    Feature

    FEATURE

    Alternative Art : Functional art-craftwork by artists Sandhya Bordewekar Exploring the concepts of a ‘product laboratory’ through innovative platforms like 0265, bridging the artwork versus craftwork divide in contemporary or traditional realms, Sandhya Bordewekar analyzes the nurturing kinship between the…

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    Feature

    FEATURE

    The real, the palpable and the unseen in Kavita Jaiswal’s Compositions Mariam Karim There is a seeking and evocative quality in Kavita’s compositions which is an essential component of the mind of the contemporary abstract artist. It comes forward more…

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    Feature

    FEATURE

    The print making idiom , route and milieu of Ajit Seal Dr.Meghali Goswami “I believe that art is a creative bridge between our imaginative vision, which tends to recreate the primal human condition, and our current artistic sensibility, which responds…

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    Report

    REPORT

    A Site Where Art Awakes 3rd Regional Art Workshop’ 2014 at Silchar, Assam Abhibrata Chakrabarty The green meadow of a remote village of Choto Dudh Patil in Silchar was awash in colour on the evening of 15th January of 2014….

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    Photo Feature

    PHOTO FEATURE

    WALKING in HAUZ KHAS Saba Hasan The Hauz Khas madarsa and its lake have been adopted by me as artistic inspiration, a challenge, a form of history and a symbol, actually, an entire philosophical microcosm, right from the start. I…

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    Cinema

    CINEMA

    SUCHITRA SEN: The Unmatc hable Golde n Diva of India n Silver Screen Santanu Ganguly The kind of respect and fan following Suchitra Sen got from the people of Bengal, I doubt any other actress in India can match it….

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    Matters of heArt

    Matters of heArt

    Matters of heArt with Paramjot Walia Samar Jodha You exhibited independently at Venice, this time, in contrast to 2011 when you were part of a larger Indian presentation. How was the experience different? My work was part of a video…

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    Review

    REVIEW

    Retelling a story teller Art & Deal Correspondent The India Art Fair 2014 was busy, engaging and varied. It is always a challenge for the viewer to be able to concentrate and see art works in all this celebratory chaos….

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    Review

    REVIEW

    POETICS OF KABIR IN STONE AND BRICK Uma Nair At the Habitat Centre this January was a brilliant exhibition created in stone and brick that had a very queer title. ‘ Often I miss You’ didn’t quite seem to fit…

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    Review

    REVIEW

    Emptiness of existence Paramjot Walia A solemn empty chair in a collage of 24 paintings where the color gradient could either depict the 24 hours of a day or the bright colors could be a metaphor of happy times, refuses…

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    Review

    REVIEW

    AN ODE TO THE GODDESS OF MUSIC Uma Nair It isn’t often that one would find an exhibition at the National Museum which explores the marriage of technology and culture. But the strains of Beethoven’s composition from a hollow piano…

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    Review

    REVIEW

    ZARINA HASHMI: OF PAPER’S MATERIALITY Uma Nair The very term “Folding House” became a stimulus for creativity last week at the opening of Zarina Hashmi who is considered a citizen of the world; and on a wall of the staircase…

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