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Monthly Art Magazine in India

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Photo Story

Photo Story

“On His Last leg” Story of the Hand pulled Rickshawalas in Kolkata Photographs & Story: Dilip Banerjee The documentary seeks to narrate the story of the hand-drawn rickshaw pullers of Kolkata who have, for years, dotted the landscape of the…

Review

Review

Delving into Roots Painter as Anthropologist Dr. Rajasri Mukhopadhyay Laxman Aelay’s solo exhibition entitled “Euphonic Myths” at the gallery Art Exposure; Kolkata held from 14 September to 06 October 2018 is a tour de force. It exudes a raw energy…

Obituary

Obituary

Tushar Joag (1966- 2018) On Monday, December 17th, ‘Artists Unite’ issued a statement signed by 450 Indian painters, writers and filmmakers warning that “democracy is not a majoritarian project to identify enemies and enforce uniformity of language, behavior and culture”….

Book Review

Book Review

The Mystic and Her Colours Subhra Mazumdar For the art world, Pratiksha Apurv was always unique, and best described as a mystic who prayed through colours, to unravel the spiritual path without sinking into prayerful jargon. Somewhere down the line…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Van Gogh to Picasso: the thannhauser Legacy Guggenheim Museum, BilbaoRajesh Punj Bequeathed by the German industrialist Justin K. Thannhauser (1892 – 1976), the Guggenheim Foundation and Frank Gehry’s monument to Modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, join hands to celebrate…

Editorial

Editorial

How time flies. Seems like it was only yesterday when a new year had begun, and already, we are heading towards its finale. The winter chills have started to take momentum, as have the art activities around us; and this…

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…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Glass Architecture Jean-Michael Othoniel interview Rajesh Punj In his early correspondence on glass, seventeenth century Italian glassmaker Antonio Neri referred to the Roman author and natural philosopher Pliny the Elder, who cited that its origins could be located to the…

Editorial

Editorial

In the midst of the monsoon season we not only see bubbling activity in our art scene in terms of exhibitions, residencies and the ever changing use of media within art, but also reflect upon how the scene has grown…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Indigenous Australia A Visual Insight into the Folklore and History of Aboriginal Australia Indira lakshmi prasad The art work on display ranged from traditional Australian Aboriginal tribal works to contemporary paintings, installations and sculptural works from Australian Aboriginal artists working…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Oral Tradition and Depictive Narration : Rural Stories in Images Vikas Harish for Naithani Foundation While in the Hindu classical cultures the epic texts; The Mahabharata, The Purana’s and The Ramayana formed a chronicle that was created in the three…

Cover Story

Cover Story

READING MAY 1968, PARIS : POSTERS OF ATELIER POPULAIRE Amit Mukhopadhyay The Legacy: Alain Geismar, one of the leaders of May ‘68 movement later pointed out, the movement succeeded: “As a social revolution , not as a political one. May’s…

Cover Story

Editorial

This mid-point of the season, when the intense sun is at its most merciless, is the time we usually associate with the winding down of the art season – however I’m glad to see that there are still a wealth…

Obituary

obituary

Jivya Soma Mashe (1934 – 2018) Vikas Harish “The white chownk on the village walls were my escape, just as was the forest and the adjoining mountain. They were my dream space, restful in a World of brute force. I…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Changing Paradigm of the Sacred The Sacred Mountain thatJivya Soma Mashe, and otherWarlis in the vicinity rever andcontemplate,Image Courtesy: Vikas Harish Not far from the highway, as one comes in towards the coastal town of Dahanu, an impressive mountain, a…

Interview

Interview

To Cut Your Own Flesh An interview with Johan Creten Rajesh Punj In a gallery setting far from entirely existing as artworks, these objects pose from their plinths, as though individuals shaped as much by their bodily beauty as they…

Editorial

Editorial

The most intense phase of summer is indeed upon us, and we all eagerly await the rains which we hope are just around the corner. However it is in this sublime peak of summer that the Indian art scene has…

Essay

Essay

ADDA Rendez-vous in Paris with Subodh Gupta Franck Barthelemy Subodh Gupta was invited to participate in acreative residency at La Monnaie de Paris lastFebruary. He worked with the highly skilledartisans of France’s historical mint who hadmade thousands of medals throughout…

Essay

Essay

VOIICE FOR WOMEN: K.A. Abbas & Guru Dutt Dr. Seema Bhalla Though not being of sceptical temperament, onecannot help but recount and ponder over various programmes that were organised on the International Women’s Day and wonder how many were relevant…

Report

Report

Step Inside and You Are No Longer a Stranger Vivan Sundaram First Retrospective, knma new delhi Indira Lakshmi Prasad Walking into the exhibition is somewhat like stepping into an alternate universe. The sheer scale of the display, the architecture of…

Review

Review – Mumbai

A Contemporary Approach to Floral Still Lifes Spring in the Wintertime A Series of Photographs by Bas Meeuws Tanishka D’Lyma In seeking inspiration, or not, an encounter with nature brightens the senses stimulatingan overcoming urge to come up to scale…

Review

Review – Delhi

Those Days: An Exhibition of Vinatege Photographs Mansi Dhiman Mandhwani In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.’ Photography’s long-acknowledged supremacy to mirror the face of the world was by no means forsaken,…

Review

Review – Delhi

Explorations of the Natural World with a Brush and a Camera Elizabeth Rogers “For Man is by nature an artist.”Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Within the hues of monochrome,exploration of myriad media defines artists and their respective realm of connection with nature….

Review

Review – Delhi

Everything is Black & White Art & Deal correspondent Palette Art Gallery’s summer show ‘Everything is Black & White’opened to the public on the 4th of May 2018, with the main theme being that all works were representations of the…