Review – Mumbai
A Contemporary Approach to Floral Still Lifes Spring in the Wintertime A Series of Photographs by Bas Meeuws Tanishka D’Lyma In seeking inspiration, or not, an encounter with nature brightens the senses stimulatingan overcoming urge to come up to scale…
Review – Delhi
Those Days: An Exhibition of Vinatege Photographs Mansi Dhiman Mandhwani In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.’ Photography’s long-acknowledged supremacy to mirror the face of the world was by no means forsaken,…
Review – Delhi
Explorations of the Natural World with a Brush and a Camera Elizabeth Rogers “For Man is by nature an artist.”Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Within the hues of monochrome,exploration of myriad media defines artists and their respective realm of connection with nature….
Review – Delhi
Everything is Black & White Art & Deal correspondent Palette Art Gallery’s summer show ‘Everything is Black & White’opened to the public on the 4th of May 2018, with the main theme being that all works were representations of the…
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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…
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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…
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 – 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 – 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…
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LIBERATION/ REVELATION/ REPRESENTATION: THE ART OF BHUPEN KHAKHAR Professor Rajeev Lochan Curator – Professor Rajeev Lochan Curatorial Assistant – Prarthana Tagore Exhibition continues until 11th April, 2018 Swaraj Art Archive D-85, Sector 2 Noida, UP, 201301 Bhupen Khakhar established himself…
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The opening of GRIHAAS A discourse and the art practice of Sunayani Devi Dr. Aparna Roy Baliga According to Dipesh Chakravorty ‘Andar a space opposed to the public was mainly a space of femininity where men habituated after their jobs…
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Gender Neglect; Bengal School – Dr. Seema Bhalla Not too long back, a very confident member of the curatorial team of one of the leading galleries in New Delhi reacted rather sharply against the idea of a woman artist who…
International
Samples of ecological art From Italy. In India and elsewhere…. DR. Martina Corgnati Atendency among the Italian cultural heritage specialists, art historians and curators, is such to consider landscape and, more extensively, nature as a part of the cultural heritage…
Editorial
In the month of April we traditionally saw the winding down of the art season as the temperature begins to rise and we head into the summer months. However in recent years we see a steady dissolving of this seasonal…
Review
Showstopper INDIRA LAKSMI PRASAD Showstopper, the solo exhibition curated by Rahul Bhattacharya is a presentation of the bold practice of young artist Varnita Mahanjan. Conceptually the work of this artist explores ideas which are largely socially taboo, seamlessly juxtaposing aesthetics…
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Essentialism through realism in conversation with Shobha Broota Indira Lakshmi Prasad “Much is achieved when I live in silence. My work is a journey in search of my own self. It is the experience of space, color, expanse and movement,…
Essay
Notes Toward Sighting/Citing/Siting Women in Hindi Cinema of the 1950s and 60s Anuradha Dingwaney Needham A commonplace understanding of mainstream Indian and other cinemas is that they are inhospitable, even hostile, to women: indeed, cinema itself is frequently seen as…
