Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Month: September 2018

Cover Story

Cover Story

Soft Diseases Matthew Ronay interview Rajesh Punj For years I use to talk a lot about ‘muscle memory’. There is a thing inside my body that makes me do certain kinds of lines, that leads to a certain kind of…

Essay

Essay

Oral Histories to Material Culture The making of autochthonous art Origin of Shame and Sorrow Vikas HARISH for Naithani Collection Aesthetic academic thought and the ‘translation’ of Indian arts first gave expression through the religious texts, the Vedas, the Upanishads…

Photo Story

Photo Story

MONUMENTAL TERRACOTTA Photographs & Story: Sanjay Das I am a Travel Photographer, majorly working on storytelling from different parts of India for the past two decades. During my journey I have made an effort to discover interesting known and unknown…

Interview

Interview

The Future is Not My Gender An interview with Renuka RajivMohit Kant Mishra I studied printmaking with the intention of doing illustration work but it went off in a more independent direction. I enjoy working with paper and fabric. Immediacy…

Feature

Feature

CURATION IN THE ABSENCE OF ART CRITICISM Rahul Bhattacharya CURATION came to India as a curse and a charm. Just like steel and glass in architecture, it is/was shiny, ‘new’ and Global. There was also a fundamental vacuum in the…

Report

Report

Art for The Blind ART & DEAL Correspondant It would not only be difficult but extremely challenging if your eyes were blindfolded and you would have been asked to paint on a canvas. But Krupa Shah, an artist with a…

Review

Review – Delhi

Indigenously fan-tastic Upasana Bhattacharya As a child growing up in the late 80’s, I fondly remember certain quintessential elements from our middle class Bengali household. The standard haathpakha1 from Shantipur was one of them. Each time there was a power…

Review

Review – Delhi

PIDGIN: A Visual Interplay Pidgin: A Visual Interplay took place between the 12th and 14th July at NIV Arts Center in New Delhi, and was the result of a residency by artist Khandakar Ohida. Her thought process leading up to…

Review

Review – Delhi

Queer: Identity, Sexuality & Desire Mansi Dhiman Mandhwani “This exhibition celebrates the un-confinable and unflinching individualism of over 25 artist voices, self identified as QUEER, this exhibition works at the intersections of identity and life experience, genre and process…. shattering…

Obituary

Obituary

Krishna Reddy [1925 – 2018] Rahul Bhattacharya Indian Modern Art has had many Masters, artists who have taken the first steps to post-colonize the formal contexts of Western Modernisms. Within this galaxy of stars, Krishna Reddy was a rare figure…

Editorial

Editorial

It is with heavy hearts that we begin our September issue, as this month we have lost another great Indian Master; Krishna Reddy. A household name amongst artists, this legendary artist, throughout his career succeeded in presenting the extending concerns…