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Zones of Contact: The 2006 Sydney Biennale
Amrita Gupta Singh writes on international Biennales and their ideological frameworks, based on a talk by Dr. Charles Merewether who was the Artistic Director and Curator of the 2006 Sydney Biennale and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University. read on » |
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Zakkir Hussain
“Broken pieces are brought together to create a new shape. There is no deliberation in the act. It is a like a play and the images happen,” Zakkir Hussain explains the secret of his works. Looking through the lens that the artist now has given to us, we see broken pieces coming together and re-emerging as in a kaleidoscopic vision. more »
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Anil Kumar K
Anil Kumar has participated in several group shows in Kerala and Mumbai. His initial concerns were image making and exploring the space within the pictorial frame. He followed the narrative techniques developed by the doyens of Baroda quite closely in the beginning and later on shifted to a non-figurative style. His works are widely appreciated by art collectors in India . more »
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Remembering Benodebehari Mukherjee
 Delhi’s National Gallery of Modern Art is all set for the mega Benodebehari Mukherjee Retrospective. Slated to take place by the last week of December 2006, this exhibition is curated by art historian R.Sivakumar and painter Gulam Mohammad Sheikh. JohnyML speaks to curator R.Sivakumar about the project. Excerpts. read on »
Exploitation makes me feel sad...
 Sumedh Rajendran’s solo show is currently on at Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi. Manoj Nair talks to the artist about his new set of works and his artistic philosophy. read on »
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Kya Tum Ho at the Trivandrum Film Festival more » |
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Kiki Smith and Atul Dodiya in conversation more » |
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Mega Benod Bihari Mukherjee retrospective at NGMA more » |
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Fast Futures: Asian Video Art
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LaVa comes to Kochi
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Kashi Awards (KAVA 2) presented more » |
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‘Bronze’ opens in Delhi and auction dates declared more » |
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K.S. Radhakrishnan Sculpture at Santiniketan more » |
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Auto Hanger sets a new example more » |
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A bio-documentary on Bose Krishnamachari more » |
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Minal Damani Weds Apurba Nandi more » |
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The Poetry of Sublime Darkness
 In this essay written on the forthcoming solo show of Anil Kumar Janardhanan at the Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, JohnyML writes about the evolution of his imageries.
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Twisted Tales: Between Images and Words
 Noted painter and story writer Mimi Radhakrishnan presents her solo show at the Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi. Her long time friend and cultural theorist Parul Dave Mukherjee looks at Mimi’s works against the backdrop of Indian feminist art. more »
Everything Happens Twice
 Bangalore based painter Ravikumar Kashi during the ocassion of his travelling solo show in four countries turns and looks at his works and their concerns. more »
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Playing god to the lepers in your head
 Gitanjali Dang, the art critic of Hindustan Times, Mumbai writes on the latest exhibition by the acclaimed artist Sanjeev Khandekar. more »
Digital Reflections
 Noted journalist and writer C S Venkiteswaran analyses the digital art of the Trivandrum based digital artist Priyaranjanlal. more »
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The Alchemists of Angst
Artconcerns.com correspondent finds that there is an interesting chemistry between the doyens of Indian modern art Krishen Khanna and Akabar Padamsee as their works on paper are on view at the India Fine Arts, Mumbai more »
Work of renewal and emotions
Ponnu Elezabeth Mathew on Bhagyanath's exhibition at Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi more »
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CATALOGUES - PAGE 3 WHIMSY
A peculiar case of a number of recent catalogues has been the sudden emergence of catalogues being written by Page 3 celebrities who would rather fill 2 pages or a few hundred words with gibberish about where the artist went, what he/she liked, what trivia they talked about etc,etc. more »
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