Plural India at Visual Arts Gallery from 18th to 23rd October
For serious art collectors, the process of editing their collection is as emotional an affair as it is to add. Anjani Kumar Singh, a prolific and avid art lover, who is the force behind the truly international Bihar Museum holds…
FLIGHTS OF FANCY: ABU DHABI ART – Rajesh Punj
With everything of our lives online for many months of the pandemic, and the visual becoming the video experience, a much anticipated return to the real has the 2021 edition of Abu Dhabi Art making up for lost time, with…
THE VENICE BIENNALE – Uma Prakash
Venice Biennale 59 was fascinating, invigorating and extremely engaging. Curator Cecilia Aleman’s Milk of Dreams shares its title with surrealist artist Leonora Carrington fantastic book and illustrations with the same name. It describes a constantly changing magical world brought about…
COMPANY PAINTING VISUAL MEMOIRS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY INDIA- Gaurav Kumar
A lengthy black tattoo line running from a tribal woman’s nose up to her forehead may be a mark of her caste or tribe. She is carrying a parrot in her hand. The woman is dressed in a white sari…
WHEN THE NEEDLE IS THE BRUSH: IN CONVERSATION WITH GOPIKA NATH -Gaurav Kumar
A significant element of material culture is textiles. They might be considered as works of art, as cultural symbols, as technological objects, or as commodities. The textile arts reflect much of what is valuable in any society metaphorically. They are…
VOL.18 NO.126 -127
JULY - AUGUST, 2022