Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

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Essay

Essay

Mythology in Post-colonial Indian arts At the outset of the festival season, this piece tries to unravel the eternal truth of the gods and goddesses, epics and jatakas. India, a 60-something nation, boasts a 5,000-year-oldcivilization, thanks to the Ramayana, Mahabharata,…

Face to Face

Face to Face

Vibha Galhotra is one of the leading contemporary avant-garde visual artists in India. Her oeuvre has travelled globally and hence paved the way for international market in India. In an open conversation with her, we discuss her unusual approach towards…

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Taste Of India Its just my eyes who actually makes me click whatever I see interesting around and specially focussing on something which i can actually make more interesting. I am trying to hold up a mirror to our society…

History

History

RELIGIOUS SYNCRETISM IN MANIPUR: A STUDY OF FEW INDIGENOUS SCULPTURES OF THE MEITEI SOCIETY Manipur is one of the seven sister states in the North Eastern part of India, but due to its geographical location, it appears to be isolated….

Media & Communication

Media & Communication

Utterly Butterly girl now celebrating her 50th Birthday Utterly butterly delicious! This line is almost known to everyone. Yes, it is the tag line of Amul which spurred the White Revolution in India and, in turn, made India the largest…

Film

Film

Pramathesh Chandra Barua: The eternal ‘Devdas ’ of Indian cinema Pramathesh Chandra Barua, popularly known as P.C. Barua to his colleagues, was a multi-faceted talent who was born in a place called Gauripur in Assam in 1903. This versatile genius…

Contributors

Contributors

H.A. Anil Kumar is a Bangalore based art historian, critic and lecturer at Chitrakala Partshath. Shukla Sawant is an artist and a teacher, Dept. of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New delhi Debabrota Das is a curator and writer…

Editorial

Editorial

The terrible heat plaguing the city has subsided. Rains have ushered in scantily. As we anticipate the monsoons to herald a new beginning, so do gallery owners, especially after the stagnant state of the art market. Although the art market…

Cover Story

Instituting Artists’ Collectives:

The Bangalore/Bengaluru experiments with “Solidarity Economies”It often comes as a revelation to art observers, who are searching for an alternative to the commercially driven contemporary art worlds of Mumbai and Delhi, with their imposing art spaces and booming auction houses,…

Essay

Essay

Evening in Varda Ram and Manohar Singh throw their heads back and guzzle streams of Haywards Super Strong 5000. It is late evening in the village of Varda, the setting sun is encircling the Aravali hills, and the peacock that…

Cover Story

International

The exhibition ‘Indian Highway’ was brought to Rome at MAXXI Museum from the 22nd Sept 2011 to the 29th Jan 2012 by the Serpentine Gallery, London . This was showcased in London in 2009, has traveled through Oslo and will…

Mahesh Chandra Column

Mahesh Chandra Column

On a certain day in early 1993 I was visiting Ram Kumar at his then residence cum studio. It was a smallish two-storied house on Mathura Road in Nizammudin East. Ram Kumar and Vimla, his wife, occupied the first floor….

Report

Report

People for Animals People for Animals (PFA) is the largest animal welfare organization in the country. They have 34 hospitals, which are working progressively to make India free of rabies. They do animal rescue work and their efforts have shown…

Face to Face

Face to Face

Shubhalakshmi Shukla speaks to Jyotee about her latest project on genetic modification and art. S.S: Could you please speak about how you see the existing world of foods around us? Like several examples of GM fruits and vegetables, the story…

Feature

Feature

Paresh Maity was born in 1965 at Tamluk, a town of great antiquity, with a remarkable heritage of terracotta art, situated on the banks of the Rupnarayan river, located in the south-west part of Kolkata. The river’s cape with its…

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Charak Puja is an enchanting folk festival of the Southern Belt of Bangladesh West Bengal and Barak Valley, Assam also known as “Nil Puja” celebrated on the last day of Chaitra (Chaitra Songkranti) believed to carry prosperity by eliminating the…

History

History

A Tribute to Birendra Lal Bhowmik There is a popular saying of the Maya people of Central America: The saying goes …for in the baby lies the future of the world Mothers must hold the baby so close that the…

Film

Film

SALT N’ PEPPER: A JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF FOOD Salt N’ Pepper, a 2011 film directed by Aashiq Abu and produced by Luscam Creations has pumped a new lease of life into the Malayalam industry reeling under formulaic patterns…

Review

Review

All to do with the loss of humanity lack of identity loss of civilized values… Unfortunate that it all happened because of the government’s pride and prejudice but that is not the issue which is to be discussed, its now…

OBJECTIVE

Objective

‘Communication’- when we hear this word, our mind constructs a definition in a fraction of second that, it has assembled the whole world in a social and mutual understanding for conveying and exchanging ideas through speech and writing. Our modern…

Media & Communication

Media & Communication

Our Culture Is What We Are Now TS Eliot famously wrote about measuring life with coffee spoons. We can add that we measure past life with many sarcophagi, masks and paintings—we measure past life by means of relics, what we…

Contributors

Contributors

Bhoomika Jain is a musician and an art writer based in Delhi Charty Dugdale is a Delhi based art writer. Darshana Sreedhar is a Delhi based researcher in film studies. Dipjit Paul is a Silchar based writer and research scholar….

Editorial

Editorial

I look at facebook and other social networking sites. I see young people complaining. They are complaining about everything. Young artists say that they don’t have enough money to support their creative activities. Young art critics say that one day…

Cover Story

RELEVANCE OF HUSAIN

When time accelerates not only future events hurtle towards us faster, even the events of recent past disappear into oblivion more rapidly. It was only on June 9 last year that Maqbool Fida Husain died in a London hospital far…