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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….
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The Philosophy of Punk An Interview with Tim Noble and Sue Webster Rajesh Punj "We were pushing the shadow sculptures by using different materials, where the sculptures were becoming interesting in their own right; and there was a point where…
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Art Fair and Art Dr. Seema Bhalla The question that arises is about the purpose of Art Fairs. The participating galleries vary from the most important to the new entrants who are trying their luck in the Art bazaar. The…
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Fairs Dr. Seema Bawa The closest term for a fair in Sanskrit is a Mela meaning ‘gathering’ or ‘to meet’ or a ‘fair’. In the Indian subcontinent it has been used for all sizes of gatherings that may be religious,…
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Ruminations…Audiences and Other Things – II Lina Vincent Sunish It is not easy to create, design, and execute a multi-layered program of large scale – it takes a huge amount of planning, teamwork, administration and infrastructure, not to forget the…
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Colour Coded An interview with Rana Begum Rajesh Punj For the American sculptor Donald Judd simplicity served to celebrate the object in space. Deciding “it isn’t necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to…
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Studio at Varda: Memories of a Visit Lina Vincent Sunish I least imagined that one day I would be photographed with a knife in my hand and a scowl on my face, playing the protagonist in an incredible narrative that…
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The Long Gaze Back : Neo Miniatures by Anindita Bhattacharya Myna Mukherjee Anindita’s works fire on all cylinders, blurring polarities of Islamic & Hindu, traditional and contemporary, East and West, representation and abstraction. She is an artist who is mature…
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Uncertain States an interview with Bharti Kher Rajesh Punj In Paris at Galerie Perrotin Kher has introduced a new body of works that in part draw attention to the anatomy of potential actions. As though in these configurations of differing…
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Dhruva Mistry’s Mystic Magic Sumati Gangopadhyay Dhruva was impressed by the cultural openness and individual freedom encouraged at R.C.A. He wrote, “I enjoyed seeing places, thevariety of collections, display, and exhibitions offering plurality of ideas of art, culture, people and…
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Serendipity Arts Festival Goa- A Curtain Raiser Lina Vincent Sunish Goa, a place that has often been just a backdrop for events because of its beaches, sunny tempers, parties and good food, an ideal work-cum-holiday getaway. What is it about…
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Serendipity Arts Festival Goa 2016: A Selection of Projects Exhibitions & Performances Serendipity Arts Festival will be a multi-disciplinary arts event set over a period of nine days in Panaji, Goa. Curated by a panel of leading experts from across…
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Colombo In Colombo: Jean-Francois Bocle Rajesh Punj Seeing space as “public and private, space as protest and contestation, space as tangible and imagined, as community, memory and legacy, space as architectural, performative, temporal, spiritual and rhythmic, space as liminal and…
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Of Public Fairs And The Art Fest In Vadodara Aparna Roy Baliga The great purpose of the city is to permit, indeed to encourage and incite, the greatest number of meetings, encounters, challenges, between all persons, classes and groups, providing…
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Demystifying Biennale! Pune Biennale 2017: 3rd Edition Dr. Kiran Shinde As such now, the Pune Biennale has emerged as an institution to create a world-wide cultural identity for the home-city and act as a vehicle for the development of the…
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Barren Red: Solo Exhibit By Puneet Kaushik Myna Mukherjee Contemporary artist Puneet Kaushik’s new solo ‘Barren Red’ evokes a certain coming of age nostalgia. Having keenly followed his substantive body of abstract and plurally textural work over the years, one…
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All That Remains: AN Interview With Dayanita Singh Rajesh punj An opportunity to meet with the Indian photographer Dayanita Singh has become more improbable now that she exhibits more prolifically than when we first met in late 2008. As was…
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Evolution of Art in bengal and Kolkata Partha Mukherjee Bengal soaked in different cultures and thereby grew as an important centre for art and culture in the eastern part of the country. While the ‘Caterpillar’ metamorphosed into a ‘Butterfly, it…
VOL.18 NO.126 -127
JULY - AUGUST, 2022