Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Month: June 2016

Editorial

EDITORIAL

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inwardsignificance”. -Aristotle Over the last few years, Crafts and Intangible Heritage of India have been introduced as the new optional subject for high school students….

Snippets

SNIPPETS

MUKTI PRASANG India Habitat Centre (IHC) Mukti Prasang (Hindi/90 mins) A solo performance by Nawab Shah. The play is a theatrical interpretation of a poem by renowned poet & author Rajkamal Chowdhary. Through the poem, Nawab takes us through the…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Floating Temples and Preaching Tutors of Indian Art Education H. A. Anil Kumar Fine Arts or Visual Arts education, a part of the ‘business’ of Humanities, always has faced the challenge of being compared with certain benchmarks, mostly outside itself….

Cover Story

COVER STORY

The Department Of Visual Arts, Assam University: Pride of North-East Dr. Ganesh Nandi As the chirpy birds wake to a clear golden sky, so do they. They feel the pulse of nature with their sixth sense, then invoke their aesthetic…

Cover Story

COVER STORY

Learning to Unlearn Lina Vincent Sunish It is common knowledge that there is something mortally wrong with the way in which majority of our Fine Arts institutions are functioning – those who are within the system, and those without, are…

Interview

INTERVIEW

The Matter With Matter : An Interview With Bosco Sodi Rajesh Punj Mexican American artist Bosco Sodi is as much driven by imperfections in the process making part of his work, as he is appreciative of the clean context in…

Interview

INTERVIEW

Mahanadi : An Interview With Birendra Pani Pradosh Mishra For me, what I document and how I imagine and use it in my work is most important. I enjoy the process; I may or may not like the fi nished…

Report

REPORT

Go Wild for Life : World Environment Day, 2016 Apurva Sinha “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein Tender human relations nurture in the lap of nature, and it is nature that gives…

Feature

FEATURE

Tallur’s Stones For Summer Uma Nair Galleries in Delhi usually partake of a humdrum torrid summer by doing a summer show culled from their archives.When one such showof 5 sculptures circles around an art genius who travels the world, it’s…

Review

REVIEW

The Enigma a New Landscape: Solo Show of Gopal Samantray Vikash Nand Kumar This summer when the Indian Art Scene is little relaxed or may be planning new events for the next season of art, the effervescent street of South…