Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Month: July 2012

Essay

Essay

Evening in Varda Ram and Manohar Singh throw their heads back and guzzle streams of Haywards Super Strong 5000. It is late evening in the village of Varda, the setting sun is encircling the Aravali hills, and the peacock that…

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International

The exhibition ‘Indian Highway’ was brought to Rome at MAXXI Museum from the 22nd Sept 2011 to the 29th Jan 2012 by the Serpentine Gallery, London . This was showcased in London in 2009, has traveled through Oslo and will…

Mahesh Chandra Column

Mahesh Chandra Column

On a certain day in early 1993 I was visiting Ram Kumar at his then residence cum studio. It was a smallish two-storied house on Mathura Road in Nizammudin East. Ram Kumar and Vimla, his wife, occupied the first floor….

Report

Report

People for Animals People for Animals (PFA) is the largest animal welfare organization in the country. They have 34 hospitals, which are working progressively to make India free of rabies. They do animal rescue work and their efforts have shown…

Face to Face

Face to Face

Shubhalakshmi Shukla speaks to Jyotee about her latest project on genetic modification and art. S.S: Could you please speak about how you see the existing world of foods around us? Like several examples of GM fruits and vegetables, the story…

Feature

Feature

Paresh Maity was born in 1965 at Tamluk, a town of great antiquity, with a remarkable heritage of terracotta art, situated on the banks of the Rupnarayan river, located in the south-west part of Kolkata. The river’s cape with its…

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Charak Puja is an enchanting folk festival of the Southern Belt of Bangladesh West Bengal and Barak Valley, Assam also known as “Nil Puja” celebrated on the last day of Chaitra (Chaitra Songkranti) believed to carry prosperity by eliminating the…

History

History

A Tribute to Birendra Lal Bhowmik There is a popular saying of the Maya people of Central America: The saying goes …for in the baby lies the future of the world Mothers must hold the baby so close that the…

Film

Film

SALT N’ PEPPER: A JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF FOOD Salt N’ Pepper, a 2011 film directed by Aashiq Abu and produced by Luscam Creations has pumped a new lease of life into the Malayalam industry reeling under formulaic patterns…

Review

Review

All to do with the loss of humanity lack of identity loss of civilized values… Unfortunate that it all happened because of the government’s pride and prejudice but that is not the issue which is to be discussed, its now…

OBJECTIVE

Objective

‘Communication’- when we hear this word, our mind constructs a definition in a fraction of second that, it has assembled the whole world in a social and mutual understanding for conveying and exchanging ideas through speech and writing. Our modern…

Media & Communication

Media & Communication

Our Culture Is What We Are Now TS Eliot famously wrote about measuring life with coffee spoons. We can add that we measure past life with many sarcophagi, masks and paintings—we measure past life by means of relics, what we…

Contributors

Contributors

Bhoomika Jain is a musician and an art writer based in Delhi Charty Dugdale is a Delhi based art writer. Darshana Sreedhar is a Delhi based researcher in film studies. Dipjit Paul is a Silchar based writer and research scholar….

Editorial

Editorial

I look at facebook and other social networking sites. I see young people complaining. They are complaining about everything. Young artists say that they don’t have enough money to support their creative activities. Young art critics say that one day…

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RELEVANCE OF HUSAIN

When time accelerates not only future events hurtle towards us faster, even the events of recent past disappear into oblivion more rapidly. It was only on June 9 last year that Maqbool Fida Husain died in a London hospital far…