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    SHIFTING PARADI GM: Looking at the Anxious Indian Visual H.A. Anil Kumar One should be ‘watch’ful about seeing; and more so about how it is ‘getting’ altered, because, if it is (as and when) relocated, there must be a reason…

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    Neeraj Goswami Santanu Ganguly The art of Neeraj Goswami reflects the state of the art in India as it grew over the last fifty years. Born in Patna, in 1964, he grew up in Delhi since the age of eight,…

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    A Sneak peak to the Art Deal Auction House- Summer Auction Apurva sinha Art is an exemplary medium to express intricate socio-cultural foundations. It is an apt creation of imageries portraying the struggle of many novel civilizations, and their amalgamations….

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    Trigger Happy: An interview with Sindika Dokolo Rajesh Punj Collector Sindika Dokolo sits with London based art critic Rajesh Punj in Porto; for a conversation about African art and ideals.’ As an orator and ambassador for contemporary African art, Sindika…

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    Musings On Womahood Lina Vincent Sunish The BBC recently produced a video that morphed 50 female portraits from the history of western art. ‘Changing Faces: 500 years of women’ showed portraits in chronological order, from Russian icon painting to Renaissance…

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    “Story Teller: Stories Told & Retold” An intermingling of folk and urban tradition, narratives & art [Lisbon] Apurva Sinha On May 28, 2015, The Gallery Art Lounge, at Rua António Enes 9c in Lisbon, very close to Saldanha, organized an…

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    Pleasant mornings with a temperature settling four notches below the season’s average at 23.3 degrees Celsius in Delhi tell us that monsoon has arrived just in time, as a blessing for all. This issue covers a grand event which was…

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    409 Ramkinkars: Recreation of a lost world by Vivan Sundaram Anshita Arora The Sculptural installation from 409 Ramkinkar’s, put together by Vivan Sundaram, is an eloquent fusion of theatre, performance art, and installation. It has proven to be a visual…

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    Making an Inclusive Mountain Project 365 and the documentation of Tiruvannamalai Waswo X. Waswo Indeed, the not-too-distant peak is circled by a ring of clouds. There is something uncanny about it. And then, within moments, the nebulous halo vanishes like…

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    Sacred landscape of Ladakh in the art of Nicholas Roerich Vladimir Zaitsev Ladakh is one of the most unique places in our planet, situated on the high plateau of Western Himalayas, this barren land for centuries was known as a…

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    Dasavatara: Incarnation, evolution and refinement of Dharma Apurva Sinha “For the protection of the good, the destruction of the evil-doer and for the establishment of dharma, I come into being from age to age” (Bhagvada Gita 4.8) The ancient scriptures…

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    Reality Check how do we understand dignity of labor in India for artists Clyde D’Mello There are times we always think that we could have done something better when we were young (for example an education), but age and dignity…

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    Art Education in the Age of Digital Reproduction H.A. Anil Kumar The main question with majority of Indian art education, today, excepting the genuinely renowned ones is whether to accept it as an irreversibly failed institution or a construct which…

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    Warring Bodies Looking into the nature of Performance praxis in Bangalore and its silent quirk against Text R. Dhanya To identify the aspirations and the outcome of the Bangalore performance enterprise, I would like to open a discourse on the…

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    Bodies without garments and robe s of wisdom: The female bodies as imagined in Arpana Caur’s paintings Aparna Roy Baliga “This body that you are fussing over, This body that you’re dolling up, This body that you’re wearing to the…

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    We Mourn the loss of an artist who created the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, a visionary landscape of sculpture and architecture NEK CHAND SAINI (15 DECEMBERr 1924 – 12 JUNE 2015) Art & Deal Correspondent Nek Chand Saini was born…

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    Opie’s Picturesque Anthology of the French Countryside [DELHI] Preeti Kathuria “What I would really like to do is make a painting and then walk into it. I think my work is about trying to be happy… I want the world…

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    Playing Around -d-is-play [DELHI] Art & deal correspondent An experimental yet frisky exhibition,d-is-play, was on view from July 7 – 21, 2015,at NIV Art Centre, New Delhi. The exhibition was organized by Shield Art Initiative in association with NIV Art…

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    Magnificent seven [DELHI] Anindya Kanti Biswas Very recently one of New Delhi’s most reputed, Lalit Kala Akademi, hosted a remarkable exhibition of paintings by seven Indian contemporary artists from different parts of Bengal and Bihar, who exhibited their recent beautiful…

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    Indian Divine: Gods & Goddesses In 20th Century Modern Art Santanu Ganguly Indian Divine: Gods & Goddesses In 20th Century Modern Art explores the sheer enormity of art, a subject which has inspired from the earliest of times. To the…

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    Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts Anshita Arora Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts deals with the history of Indian archaeology giving a clear perspective on how our past, cultural heritage, and civilization, can be given…

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    After a short but scathing heat wave, it looks like an early monsoon is on it’s way to Delhi. This issue explores the development and existence of pop today, globally and in the Indian Art scene. Further, we have reports,…

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    From Warhol to Koons– The Devolution of Pop Waswo X. Waswo An older, comatose, women’s movement morphed into radical feminism, and “the pill” opened the doors to a new, heterosexual candour about unashamed, non-marital relationships. By the end of the…

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    The Comic And The Obscene Clyde D’ Mello Comics have always been in this flux of being popular, yet for some quaint reason it hasn’t been considered as art or “high art” especially in India. It’s as if even though…

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    Pop Art H.A. Anil Kumar The poster of “Dabbang” cooling glass, photos of a tribal girl with contemporary gadgets, stenciled and repeated images in fine-arts paintings, paintings upon fiber glass sculptures, paintings based on what is considered classical Indian painting…

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    A Conversation with Vanita gupta Premjish Achari I think I told myself that I am going to do just this, without even knowing the possibilities of it. Can’t remember any influence then, only the fact that I liked doing it…

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    Art Alive Gallery’s Tribute to nature through Raghu Rai’s immortal ‘Trees’ Santanu Ganguly In the last 18 years, Rai has specialized in extensive coverage of India. He has produced more than 18 books, including Raghu Rai’s Delhi, The Sikhs, Calcutta,…

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    Giving Creatively Lina Vincent Sunish Artist In Residence programs and other residency opportunities allow artists, academicians, curators, and various creative individuals, time and space away from their usual environment and obligations. They provide a time of reflection, research, presentation and…

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    Forms of Devotion: The Spiritual in Indian Art On an international tour Santanu Ganguly The Museum of Sacred Art (MOSA), Belgium organized Forms of Devotion: The Spiritual in Indian Art, a multidimensional arts project conceptualized around the notion of the…

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    Five Quartets @ Art Konsult Art & Deal Correspondent Curated by Uma Nair 23rd May, 2015 01. S. H. Raza , 02. S. H. Raza lightening the lamp with curator Uma Nair, Siddhartha Tagore & Akhilesh, 03. From the right:…

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    Five Quartets [Delhi] Premjish Achari An extraordinary anecdote from Vasili Kandinsky’s much eventful artistic career would function as an ideal introduction to this review on ‘Five Quartets’ curated by Uma Nair. On a late afternoon in Munich of 1909 or…

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    Priya’s Shakti [New York] Alison Adams Apne Aap supported the comic, based on super hero: Priya’s Shakti in its first ever augmented reality Art Exhibition in New York City. The epic comic book, PRIYA’S SHAKTI, presents a new Indian female…

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