Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Day: May 2, 2018

Obituary

Obituary

Ram Kumar (1924 – 2018) “Any great work of art… revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Evidence of Failure Dan Colen interview American painter and printmaker Robert Rauschenberg, during the 1950’s and 60’s in New York, was one of the greatest advocates of ‘art by failure’. Seeing in material mismatches and mistakes a greater candidness of…

Editorial

Editorial

It is in this month of May that we truly feel the heat of summer begin to radiate, but in the midst of the summer inferno there is the silver lining of the spring blossoms, the variety of summer fruits…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Art as a catalyst Understanding the philosophy behind the BAP III, a public art initiative in Barbil, Odisha. Arpita Akhanda an installation and performance artist and one of the participating artists in conversation with Utsha Foundation Director, Artist Jagannath Panda…

Essay

Essay

Saga of Power Play in Art : Sumati Gangopadhyay It’s a global reality, which Kavita has so superbly through artistic expression presented in her magnificent prints. Her own Ganjifa card is a photo etching relief print created on Somerset paper…

Essay

Essay

Abdur Rahman Chughtai: Unfolding a Pakistani Artist’s Association with the Bengal School of Art Mallika Chakrawarti Abdur Rahman Chughtai was one of Pakistan’s leading personalities in art. It is interesting to note that Chughtai shares his legacy with India, for…

Report

Report

Embracing- As an act of resistance Sandhya Annaiah The imagination of a land, where women live at peace with themselves and with nature is a recurrent theme of feminist utopias. This is the want of a land where there is…

Report

Report

The village of life lessons Deepak Ramola Project FUEL, an organization that documents human wisdom, has been passing on life lessons of people from all walks of life. From survivors of the Nepal earthquake to children studying under the Taliban…

Profile

Profile

Devedevam A series of paintings by G Pramod Reddy Palak Dubey Pramod’s paintings emerge from his belief and devotion for the eternal shakti that gets transformed in Indian mythology into varied forms. He excels in unveiling the potential of the…

Review

Review – Mumbai

A Reflection of the Earth in Art Ragmala – Songs of Anthropocene Tanishka Dl’yma The song of the earth is the first thing the protagonist takes in when he steps out of his hut in the morning, and finds it…

Review

Review – Delhi

Caressing History – A draft for body based Historiography INDIRA LAKShMI PRASAD The skin is a central theme throughout the exhibition, in its context as a vast register for history. The skin tells a story which is both inexorable and…

Review

Review – Delhi

IGNOU ROAD 4 Korean Artists’ Unknown Journey Insang Song I G N O U R O A D is a 2km road leading to the Niv Art Center in New Delhi. The road usually suffers from a high level of…