“Understanding the Polemics of ‘Tribal Art’ in the Contemporary Art Scenario”
This has been a query that has haunted the art world in almost a Benjaminian sense of haunting, which is, when anyone posits the query – what is art? This has been a contentious and much debated issue since human…
A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE GALLERY
THE SLOWDOWN IN THE ART MARKET HAS LEFT THE COLLECTORS’ ANXIOUS AND APPREHENSIVE, AS THEY EAGERLY AWAIT THE MARKET TO GAIN MOMENTUM. TO ANALYSE THE DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT HAVE INHERENTLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE STAGNANCY IN ART BUYING AND APPRECIATION, WE…
Art Market
Art’s value is guaranteed by money, which doesn’t mean that without money it has no value, but that money value overrides art value, while appearing to confer it. Both art and criticism have been defeated by money, even though money…
Fragmentary world offered by Photography
Notes on the historiography and comprehensively Fragmentary world offered by Photography The historicized methodology of the ‘meeting point’ between the pre-fixed frontal quality of sculpture and the overall appearance of painting is called as photography. So much for the aesthetic…
Face to Face
Vibha Galhotra is one of the leading contemporary avant-garde visual artists in India. Her oeuvre has travelled globally and hence paved the way for international market in India. In an open conversation with her, we discuss her unusual approach towards…
Photo Essay
Taste Of India Its just my eyes who actually makes me click whatever I see interesting around and specially focussing on something which i can actually make more interesting. I am trying to hold up a mirror to our society…
Media & Communication
Utterly Butterly girl now celebrating her 50th Birthday Utterly butterly delicious! This line is almost known to everyone. Yes, it is the tag line of Amul which spurred the White Revolution in India and, in turn, made India the largest…
Contributors
H.A. Anil Kumar is a Bangalore based art historian, critic and lecturer at Chitrakala Partshath. Shukla Sawant is an artist and a teacher, Dept. of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New delhi Debabrota Das is a curator and writer…
Instituting Artists’ Collectives:
The Bangalore/Bengaluru experiments with “Solidarity Economies”It often comes as a revelation to art observers, who are searching for an alternative to the commercially driven contemporary art worlds of Mumbai and Delhi, with their imposing art spaces and booming auction houses,…
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
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….
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…
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…
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
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….
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…
