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    MISS BUTTERFLY Sushma Sabnis A large needle pierces an imaginary cloth of air with a woollen string, making large spider webs. Patiently, like the arachnid weaver, the string is drawn in and out into knots and tight concentric polygons. The…

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    SITUATIONISM IN YOUR LIFE Paramjot Walia After proving its success in Agra, Sanchit Art Gallery launched its space in DLF Mall, South Delhi. Clearly the owner Sanchit Joshan is unaffected by the recession in the art market. Quoting the optimistic…

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    A CODE OF THE EXISTENTIAL Sushma Sabnis The true essence of an abstract painting lies in its balance to reveal or conceal the act of it’s creation, without making it feel like a jigsaw puzzle. Embedded layers reflect the mind…

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    KETAKI SHETH : A CERTAIN GRACE Uma Nair Working with a black and white palette capturing sensitive and haunting images, photographer Ketaki Sheth’s ‘A Certain Grace’ documenting the lives of the Sidis, immigrants from east Africa, was a deeply moving…

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    Uma Nair. Reminding one of the power and wisdom of portraiture, be it of the mundane or the rare, Sooni Taraporevala’s photography show on ‘Parsis’ was a gentle look at the poetic and curious lives of the community, observes Sooni…

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    Nisha Aggarwal. Inquiring into the historical Salt march of 1930 and the near extinct Azrakh traditions, artist and textile designer Shelly Jyoti weaves a fabric using socio-economic and cultural threads of Gandhian philosophies in her installation works, reviews The solo…

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    Nisha Aggarwal. The world around us is generally discernible by the placation of two opposite pylons, which could be similar or opposite in nature but are prevalent in every core of human life. Flipping the crucial coin of nature versus…

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    AURA Art Shubhalakshmi Shukla Drawing upon the ever changing flow of water and its influences on the artistic creativity, reviews the changes in the time and tides of Indian traditional and contemporary art over the decades on display at the…

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    Of Valuing Equality – [MUMBAI] – Shubhalakshmi Shukla With numerous threads of insightful observations and a needle sharp assertion in his visual language, artist Nikhil Raunak, presents his debut solo show titled ,‘Someday is Today’ at Clark House, Mumbai. Questioning…

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    DependsWho You Ask – [TEXAS] – gabriel Diego Delgad From overpowering essences of the tangible to implied metaphysical and spiritual realms, the curated show ’Texas Tough’, displays four solo shows by women at the Blue Star Contemporary Museum, Texas. Indian…

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    OLD MASTERS This monsoon, treading under the canopy of nostalgia of yesteryears, the Art Indus gallery recaptures the essence of the art legends through their artworks in the show ‘Old Masters’. Time, tide or market value have failed to dim…

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    Deconstruction: Prabhakar Kolte – [MUMBAI] – Sushma Sabnis There are times in life when artists choose to redefine the dynamics of their art practices, especially when one has a penchant for experimentation and an innate restlessness like Prabhakar Kolte. Being…

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    Much Ado about Nothing : Art Bangaluru 2013 Franck Barthelemy I know art is subjective and I am no one to judge what is good and what is bad. I know some buyers (note the word) acquire artworks because they…

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    Art Espresso at Gallery Espace Paramjot Walia I envy him for his passion and knowledge of coffee. He could get different shapes on those illy cups – hearts, leaves, you name it! – just by pouring the milk in a…

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    Plot(s) of Point 0 [Banglore] Franck Barthelemy occupation and the accumulation of properties that can be called speculation. Who owns? How is it owned? Why is it owned? Who knows it is owned? What does this all mean? Sreshta’s exploration…

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    CHANDIGARH’S NEK CHAND IN LONDON (London) UMA NAIR In the exhibition, the life-sized seated monkeys in reddish concrete are mysteriously thoughtful, like Buddha figures. A large, flat bird figure, its opulent surface made of translucent green glass fragments, testifies to…

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    AN UNLIKELY PAIR (Mumbai) Lina Vincent Sunish The show came about as a result of Jen’s stay in India for a sixmonth residency programme of the Art Foundation of Nordrhein- Westfalen, in cooperation with the Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai….

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    Life seen as a toy shop on the canvas Art & Deal Correspondent Shukla looks to tell a story with each of his exhibitions. This particular collection of paintings is inspired by the artist’s four year old daughter and her…

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    HAIL (KOCHI) Tanya Abraham Madhu V by using the Chinese moth [its struggles of transforming itself into a moth from a silk worm; that death is the next phase of life and not the end of life] as a metaphor…

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    Cricket and Art Archana Bahl Sapra The project, a marriage between sport and art- both creative in their own different ways has been quite a unique collaboration. Artists here have played games with their emotions, dreams, fears and experiences while…

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    Under The Skin Lina Vincent Sunish “To Mumbai: my home, my muse… “ is the dedication, and Husain begins his essay with an all encompassing comment that explains the book, “When one talks about a journey, one usually refers to…

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    Defining the undefined Dinesh Khemani Going through his sculptures one can sense that the artist does not believe in following any grammar or rules. Like his paintings reflect his inner emotional state, so does his sculptures. They are expressionistic in…

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    INKED WANDERLUST: ROHIT CHAWLA – Uma Nair This year at the Religare he unveiled Wanderlust. In two parts along its lush walls here were nomads who belonged to a nether class. I use these words because Rohit the epicurean has…

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    SHANTAMANI M – OPEN STUDIO BANGLORE Lina Vincent Sunish Hard hitting and poetic at the same time, the works evoke a range of responses connected to the external form and theme, and also continuing the integral connotations of the (precious)…

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    Paintings in prose Georgina Maddox The Vishakapatnam-based Ramesh has been fascinated and enraptured by the poetry of these women poets because of the transgressive nature of their acts—they all left home to wander as poet-saints, spreading their poetry and musings…

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    Regional Art Work shop 2013: possibilities beyond horizon Sayan Dey Dhaneshwar Shah, an internationally acclaimed artist in his thirties was one of the resource persons for the two days workshop. Well ‘it is not about the age, it is about…

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    Artist-in-Conversation Subhra Mazumdar Beyond the pale of Indian participation, Handley confirmed that his project had drawn worldwide attention due partly to the openness of the call. ‘Anyone in the world can apply and so far, 550 artists, four curators,10 choices…

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    The Spiritual Zenith Pranamita Borgohain Neeraj Goswami’s solo show titled, ‘Liquid Distillation of Animated Consciousness’ was showcased at Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi from 29th January 2013 to 4thFebruary 2013 organized by Agra based Sanchit Art Gallery. Sanchit…

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    The Many Shade s of Black Three Decades of Carrie Mae Weems At The Frist Center For The Visual Arts like the lives of most African Edward Rubin The Frist Center For The Visual Arts, also known as “The Little…

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    Reviving the forgotten aesthetics of Kalighat painting in a contemporary language – Dinesh Khemani Kalam Patua’s recent exhibition at Gallery Espace is varied and striking. A simple postmaster by profession, underneath there beats the heart of a true artist. His…

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    Surekha Ragi.net – Post Oil City- Bangalore Gardens Reloaded – R Dhanya To the left of a life size replica of Wright brothers’ first ever airplane, a small enclosure opens to the science museum visitors with a lawn of ragi…

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    Annual Art Exhibition, 2013 The Indian Institute of fine art, Silchar – Dr. Meghali Goswami We have seen how children are deeply involved in art. But beyond what we feel and believe, there is much honest information about why art…

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    FRIDAY FLEA MARKET an artist’s impression of this inspiration. – Kruti Mukherjee ‘REMEMBERING THE OLD DAYS – SHUKRAWAR INHERITANCE & INFLUENCE’ at Sarjan Art Gallery Baroda was an exhibition of works done by artists using materials collected from the ‘FRIDAY…

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    Infinity’s “LIGHT n SHADOW”: where reality merges with metaphors- Sayan Dey At a time when creative minds around the globe are trying to explore life beyond cramped quarters of grand narratives and points where metaphors and reality co-exist, five young…

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