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Curation as a Pedagogical Process by Anisha Labishetty & Pranali Dighe

In February 2024, the Department of Art History and Aesthetics at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda hosted a curatorial workshop titled “Curatorial Practice: Research and Storytelling” led by Rahul Bhattacharya from 19th to 24th. The Faculty of Fine Arts Alumni Association…

Art Mumbai by Uma Prakash

The much-awaited first Art Mumbai, recently held at Mahalakshmi Racecourse was elegant, exciting with several great art pieces. This initiative envisioned by Dinesh Vazirani, of Saffronart, Conor Macklin, director Grosvenor Gallery, London, and Nakul Dev Chawla of the Chawla Art…

So, what is Slow Stitch? By Gopika Nath

‘Slow’ has become a kind of movement that suggests slowing down, applied to many things including food. Essentially about decelerating the pace of life by making a deliberate decision to do so, its ethos embraces local and seasonal rhythms towards…

Freedom @75: Exploring the Essence of Freedom through Bhagwan Chavan’s Abstract Canvases by Jim Tharakan

“Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India…

Representational Intervention through Ecological Apparatus by Saraswathy K Bhattathiri

“You can take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy” The famous English saying (debatable authorship) brings in notions of the postindustrial phase of human settlements using ‘country side’ as a…

People, Community and Choice by Krispin Joseph PX

Community is an influential idea, and the individual plays a seed of that notion; at the same time, where we come from and what we are, is a shaping question of many things, including philosophy, art and religion. “Who am…

Workshop on Shora Paintings—Reviving a Dying Art by Shanku Sharma

When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard. –O. Henry The recently concluded three-day national workshop on Indigenous Art and Design Insight for promoting art and crafts for Barak Valley was an important and remarkable collaboration between the…

India Art Fair 2022: Celebration for enthusiast art lovers – Uma prakash

The 13th India Art fair held at NSCI was a wonderful celebration for enthusiast art lovers who flocked to the venue regardless of sultry weather and a revival of a few Covid cases. This much waited fair returned after two…

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Goa Familia: An Evolving Archive Of The Goa’s Social History – Manashri Pai Dukle Photography in India has been an important aspect of documentation, since the time of its origin in the mid-19th century. Propagating at a time when colonial…

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Urban Igloos Rajesh Punj There is an incredible monumentality to how they see things at Hangar Bicocca, Milan; and under the stewardship of director, curator Vicente Todolí, the institution’s scale appears to have gone through the roof, or as near…

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Pratibha Dakoji A Page from the Diary of an Artist Sukanya Garg Walking to her neighborhood stationary in Hauz Khas market to purchase a meticulously lined diary, Pratibha Dakoji would have never imagined that those successive visits, across a timeline…

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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…

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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…

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Embracing- As an act of resistance Sandhya Annaiah The imagination of a land, where women live at peace with themselves and with nature is a recurrent theme of feminist utopias. This is the want of a land where there is…

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The village of life lessons Deepak Ramola Project FUEL, an organization that documents human wisdom, has been passing on life lessons of people from all walks of life. From survivors of the Nepal earthquake to children studying under the Taliban…

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‘Silent Echo’ by Ravikumar Kashi Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai Tanishka D’lyma You cannot stroll by the pieces in ‘Silent Echo’, the solo exhibition by Ravikumar Kashi, you stop at each of them and listen to what they tell you. It is,…

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Wandering off the art fair in Delhi Franck Barthelemy There is something addictive about visiting art fairs. There is something exciting too. One can see in a couple of days hundreds of art works, many are mediocre, a few are…

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The Rebellion of the Dead Franck Barthelemy On 8th January, I was lucky enough to check my Facebook account and found a reminder sent by Nalini Malani : “last day of my show at the Pompidou Centre”. I thought I…

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Arts to reach and teach: Indo-Korea workshop at Udaipur Apurva Sinha If you have never seen a light how do you know what it is? If you have never contemplated, how do you know what life is? If you have…

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A Rare Indian Discovery in Scotland Historic environment scotland (hes) A century-old collection of photographs of India was discovered in the archive of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). This organization is now known…

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Voicing the forgotten stories of the Mills in Bombay Tanishka D’lyma The Mythologies of Mumbai Project tells us a story more than 300 years in the making. It begins with King Charles II handing out the islets of Bombay to…

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59th National Exhibition of Arts at Lalit Kala Akademi Himanshu Dabral The Lalit Kala Akademi’s National Exhibition of Art is held every year to exhibit works of brilliance and to give appreciation and recognition to outstanding artists. The 59th National…

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The Politics of Hair Special Correspondent “I feel there is something unexplored about a woman that only a woman can explore.” —Georgia O’Keeffe Ritu Kamath’s studio is a hive of activity as she prepares for her upcoming solo exhibition. In…

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THE ENCHANTED FOREST, THE LEGACY OF JANGARH SINGH SHYAM INDIRA LAKSHMI PRASAD Last October, Bikaner House in New Delhi hosted the exhibition of legendary modern Gond tribal artist Jangarh Singh Shyam. The exhibition was held following the release of the…

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BARAK MUSEUM: RUNG THE PRELUDE FOR NEW POSSIBILITIES DR. GANESH NANDI Barak Valley is a historical place situated in the Southern part of Assam and covering mainly three districts; Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi. Many things combined together work as a…

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Of Spaces and Stories Neha Mathrani In the context of the arts, The Story of Space became perhaps one of the more ambitious undertakings in the country. It was a community funded and driven campaign, powered by volunteers, online crowd-funding,…

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A SCULPTURAL AFFAIR Lina Vincent Sunish RMZ Ecoworld in Bangalore unveiled their sculpture park initiative in July 2017, opening out the possibility for thousands of office goers and general public to come in contact with art works of considerable beauty…

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Chitrashaala Art & Deal Correspondent In September 2017, it was in the picturesque Rajasthani town of Chittorgarh that the fourth edition of Chitrashaala art residency an initiative by Justa Hotels, and brainchild of the hotelier Ashish Vohra and curator Anirudh…

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Whispering Torsos – Loud Motion SANGEETA KUMARI Torsos communicate the physical and mental being of a woman, of substance which she carries in the aura of her personality with esteem. In the anatomy of a woman the torso is the…

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SURFACE SCRATCHES INDIRA LAKSHMI PRASAD The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible. – Allan Kaprow. It’s difficult to pin point the exact origins of performance art. Having had a crucial role…

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Environmental Consciousness in Current Inaian Art Lina vincent sunish In recent years there has been a surge of activity, both global and national, acknowledging environmental engagement with the arts. While artists have always been drawn to the representation and sometimes…

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Mark on Clay – Partha Dasgupta An overview of a ceramics workshop organised by the Lalit Kala Kendra, Kolkata Regional centre Lalit Kala Akademi, the National Academy of Art, was set up in 1954 and acts as the Government’s apex…

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58th National Exhibition of Art by the LALIT KALA AKADEMI Subhra Mazumdar This Oscar among art events that is ongoing for the 58th time leaves behind a trail of after episodes through the ten- day long Art Conclave that begins…

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Concrete Containers of Water: Floating Notes on Development Mario ‘D’SouzA The loss of an ecosystem for a community is not simply the loss of livelihood or a home but also the loss of a culture – the rites and rituals,…