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Born for Art Niren Sen Gupta Interview Upasana Bhattacharya It is not every day that one gets to meet a man as illustrious as humble. It is indeed remarkable how an artist who has painted masterpieces over many decades, one…
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“My life has been a broad canvas…” A Satish Gujral Interview Ritika Lall Chakravartty I was basking in the sun, surrounded by the magnetic life size sculptures, while I also walked through the layers of architectural marvel and set my…
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Baluchar: A Textile Heritage Darshan Shah Baluchar has been synonymous with rich textiles bearing a lineage. Patronized by the elites, the Baluchar evolved creating its own specific genre. Its designs and motifs, its comparison to relevant art forms, the socio-economic…
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Subho Tagore’s Collection of Bauchari Sarees Siddhartha Tagore Subho Tagore’s My Father, Subho Tagore, was an artist, thinker, writer and poet all combined into one. He was one of the founding fathers of cubism in India and had showcased his…
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A Unity of Opposites An Elmgreen and Dragset Interview Rajesh Punj Given the choice between success and failure, it is likely we would want to triumph every time. But the order of things, the inevitable sequence of mistakes and melodramas…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Evidence of Failure Dan Colen interview American painter and printmaker Robert Rauschenberg, during the 1950’s and 60’s in New York, was one of the greatest advocates of ‘art by failure’. Seeing in material mismatches and mistakes a greater candidness of…
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Art as a catalyst Understanding the philosophy behind the BAP III, a public art initiative in Barbil, Odisha. Arpita Akhanda an installation and performance artist and one of the participating artists in conversation with Utsha Foundation Director, Artist Jagannath Panda…
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LIBERATION/ REVELATION/ REPRESENTATION: THE ART OF BHUPEN KHAKHAR Professor Rajeev Lochan Curator – Professor Rajeev Lochan Curatorial Assistant – Prarthana Tagore Exhibition continues until 11th April, 2018 Swaraj Art Archive D-85, Sector 2 Noida, UP, 201301 Bhupen Khakhar established himself…
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The opening of GRIHAAS A discourse and the art practice of Sunayani Devi Dr. Aparna Roy Baliga According to Dipesh Chakravorty ‘Andar a space opposed to the public was mainly a space of femininity where men habituated after their jobs…
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Gender Neglect; Bengal School – Dr. Seema Bhalla Not too long back, a very confident member of the curatorial team of one of the leading galleries in New Delhi reacted rather sharply against the idea of a woman artist who…
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In the month of April we traditionally saw the winding down of the art season as the temperature begins to rise and we head into the summer months. However in recent years we see a steady dissolving of this seasonal…
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Essentialism through realism in conversation with Shobha Broota Indira Lakshmi Prasad “Much is achieved when I live in silence. My work is a journey in search of my own self. It is the experience of space, color, expanse and movement,…
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Notes Toward Sighting/Citing/Siting Women in Hindi Cinema of the 1950s and 60s Anuradha Dingwaney Needham A commonplace understanding of mainstream Indian and other cinemas is that they are inhospitable, even hostile, to women: indeed, cinema itself is frequently seen as…
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20/20 Vision An interview with Zach Harris Rajesh Punj There is something pleasurable whilst being intuitively irresponsible about spoiling a document; of rolling a pencil over it with the intention of applying free reason as free reign. But the action…
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APPROPRIATING IDENTITY: CONTEMPORANEOUS ‘FOLK’ AND ‘TRIBAL’ VIKAS HARISH Even when photography was new in Europe, it was first introduced in Calcutta, India in the 1840s. The earlier drawings ‘Europeanised’ India, self-confessed by colonial officers, in an exotic representation of the…
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MADHUBANI ART: CAPTURING MYTHOLOGICAL TALES & SOCIO-CULTURAL REALITIES MALLIKA CHAKRAWARTI Several generations have kept Madhubani art alive. In their spare time, women of the household would immerse themselves in this art, as it provided an opportunity to break the monotony…
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Deconstructing The Ritual Megha Joshi Indira Lakshmi Prasad Megha Joshi recognizes that the state and religion, while technically being separate entities, are intrinsically connected and informed by one another. Religion, the artist notes, informs and influences every area of life,…
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Let 100 Flowers Bloom – Binoy Varghese Indira Lakshmi Prasad The works as a collection do not have individual titles, but are all grouped under the title ‘Let 100 flowers bloom’ Its one story under one title, consisting of around…
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Illustration In Conversation with British Illustrator – Ian Miller Indira Lakshmi Prasad My mother worked for a company called Simmons in the 1950’s which was based in Covent Garden (London) and was perhaps one of the biggest theatrical milliners and…
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Recollections of a journey For a Beautiful World Dhiraj Choudhury “I do not want to die in this wonderful world, I’d like to live among people” – thought from a poet. No one can stop time or touch it; it…
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Durga Puja: Celebration of art & Creativity Partha Mukherjee & Priyanka Mukherjee Contrary to what many may believe, Durga Puja is more a celebration of art than a religious festival. It is a carnival of creativity that enfolds when magic…
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Future of Kumartuli’s Artisans Anything that has a strong foundation and adapts to changing times, stays relevant, and survives. When it comes to art and skills, who determines whether a particular art practice needs to be preserved? Any form of…
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Art Tax. How will it aff ect the Indian Art Market? Should art work be taxed at all? – ART & DEAL CORRESPONDENT As of July 1st 2017 the BJP government has implemented GST (Goods and Services Tax) which will…
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Dynamism in Dhanraj Bhagat’s Sculpture Anindya Kanti Biswas Dhanraj has shown an unusual mastery of all the three important art mediums-graphic, plastic and glyptic. His infallible quest for novelty and originality keeps him frequently changing from one medium to another…
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Four Decades: A Painter’s Journey In 2016, 42 years since her first exhibition, Arpana Caur felt that it was time to look back into the past. After three months of planning, the National Gallery of Modern Art,Bengaluru, opened its doors…
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Cultural Commodities: An Interview with Dorotheum’s London Director Martina Batovic – RAJESH PUNJ.. Prizing apart a two-part puzzle has in auction speak become something of a ‘commercial adventure’ for auction houses younger and longer established than either Sotheby’s or Christie’s….
