Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

    • Month: July 2015

    Editorial

    EDITORIAL

    Pleasant mornings with a temperature settling four notches below the season’s average at 23.3 degrees Celsius in Delhi tell us that monsoon has arrived just in time, as a blessing for all. This issue covers a grand event which was…

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    Cover Story

    COVER STORY

    409 Ramkinkars: Recreation of a lost world by Vivan Sundaram Anshita Arora The Sculptural installation from 409 Ramkinkar’s, put together by Vivan Sundaram, is an eloquent fusion of theatre, performance art, and installation. It has proven to be a visual…

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    Essay

    ESSAY

    Making an Inclusive Mountain Project 365 and the documentation of Tiruvannamalai Waswo X. Waswo Indeed, the not-too-distant peak is circled by a ring of clouds. There is something uncanny about it. And then, within moments, the nebulous halo vanishes like…

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    Essay

    ESSAY

    Sacred landscape of Ladakh in the art of Nicholas Roerich Vladimir Zaitsev Ladakh is one of the most unique places in our planet, situated on the high plateau of Western Himalayas, this barren land for centuries was known as a…

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    Essay

    ESSAY

    Dasavatara: Incarnation, evolution and refinement of Dharma Apurva Sinha “For the protection of the good, the destruction of the evil-doer and for the establishment of dharma, I come into being from age to age” (Bhagvada Gita 4.8) The ancient scriptures…

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    Essay

    ESSAY

    Reality Check how do we understand dignity of labor in India for artists Clyde D’Mello There are times we always think that we could have done something better when we were young (for example an education), but age and dignity…

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    Report

    REPORT

    Art Education in the Age of Digital Reproduction H.A. Anil Kumar The main question with majority of Indian art education, today, excepting the genuinely renowned ones is whether to accept it as an irreversibly failed institution or a construct which…

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    Report

    REPORT

    Warring Bodies Looking into the nature of Performance praxis in Bangalore and its silent quirk against Text R. Dhanya To identify the aspirations and the outcome of the Bangalore performance enterprise, I would like to open a discourse on the…

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    Feature

    FEATURE

    Bodies without garments and robe s of wisdom: The female bodies as imagined in Arpana Caur’s paintings Aparna Roy Baliga “This body that you are fussing over, This body that you’re dolling up, This body that you’re wearing to the…

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    Obituary

    OBITUARY

    We Mourn the loss of an artist who created the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, a visionary landscape of sculpture and architecture NEK CHAND SAINI (15 DECEMBERr 1924 – 12 JUNE 2015) Art & Deal Correspondent Nek Chand Saini was born…

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    Photo Essay

    PHOTO ESSAY

    Partha Seal

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    Review

    REVIEW

    Opie’s Picturesque Anthology of the French Countryside [DELHI] Preeti Kathuria “What I would really like to do is make a painting and then walk into it. I think my work is about trying to be happy… I want the world…

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    Review

    REVIEW

    Playing Around -d-is-play [DELHI] Art & deal correspondent An experimental yet frisky exhibition,d-is-play, was on view from July 7 – 21, 2015,at NIV Art Centre, New Delhi. The exhibition was organized by Shield Art Initiative in association with NIV Art…

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    Review

    REVIEW

    Magnificent seven [DELHI] Anindya Kanti Biswas Very recently one of New Delhi’s most reputed, Lalit Kala Akademi, hosted a remarkable exhibition of paintings by seven Indian contemporary artists from different parts of Bengal and Bihar, who exhibited their recent beautiful…

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    Book Review

    BOOK REVIEW

    Indian Divine: Gods & Goddesses In 20th Century Modern Art Santanu Ganguly Indian Divine: Gods & Goddesses In 20th Century Modern Art explores the sheer enormity of art, a subject which has inspired from the earliest of times. To the…

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    Book Review

    BOOK REVIEW

    Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts Anshita Arora Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts deals with the history of Indian archaeology giving a clear perspective on how our past, cultural heritage, and civilization, can be given…

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