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Cover story
‘Denuding Formalism’ in this world of ‘Constructs’
Wall mural of K.G.Subramanyan, Santi Niketan
Noted art historian and pedagogue H.A.Anil Kumar theoretically positions the outcomes of the Ram Kinker Baij Centenary Seminar held at Santiniketan and raises a few questions regarding the spaces of articulation and the medium of articulation. Being radical cannot be a privilege any more from these spaces of articulation...read on » |
Gallery
Valsan |
Valsan Koorma Kolleri
Valsan Koorma Kolleri. The Indian participant in Documenta X. Suddenly there will be an onrush of questions. Is it? Why? No documents say that he has participated in Docuementa X? How do you claim that he has participated? more »
We present two works of Valsan Koorma Kolleri » |
Spring Board
Lochan Upadhyay
Lochan Upadhyay |
Aditya Srinivas, an art history student at the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, MS University, Baroda speaks to the young artist Lochan Upadhyay
Lochan was born in 1983, Parthapur, Rajasthan in a Government servant’s family. He did his graduation in painting from the M.S.University, Baroda and currently pursuing post-graduation in painting in the same faculty. more » |
Offbeat
Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts
Bangalore based Attakkalari has become pivotal in Indian Performance and multimedia art. Dubbed as the Centre for Movement Arts, Attakkalari has become one of the most prominent Indian art institutions that cuts across geographical and cultural boundaries. read on »
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The Crisis is of Collection and Presentation
Yuu Takehisa |
Yuu Takehisa, Assistant Curator at Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito visits the recently opened National Art Centre, Tokyo and makes a critique of the inaugural show vis-à-vis the Western Modernism and Postmodernism. She also looks at the politics of funding strategies in the thriving Japanese art scene. more »
Museums in Contemporary Context:
Temples or Piazzas?
Sushma Bahl |
In this paper presented at an international seminar on museum discourse held in Korea recently, noted art critic and curator Sushma Bahl argues that museums could be a heady mix of culture, commerce and socio politics in today’s multicultural context, that can function both as temples of learning as well as piazzas that make ideal meeting grounds. more »
Deleting Scribbles of the Past…
account of Restoration at Amber Fort
Rashika Ojha looks at the Amber Fort at Jaipur and feels that this is a museum of inscriptions. She goes through history and the contemporary interpolations to reveal how the fort functions as an text book of bygone days and contemporary times. more »
Yes, I am He
Anahite Contractor, the noted art critic and writer makes a poetic detour through the works of Thotta Vaikuntam and sketches out her observations in this dramatic monologue more » |
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Between the Father and the Daughter
 As India Fine Arts, Mumbai is having an exclusive solo of the veteran painter Thotta Vaikuntam, Artconcerns publish an interview between the artist and his daughter Sowbhagya. Through this conversation, the artist’s life unravels before us. read on »
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Thotta Vaikuntam Solo at India Fine Arts » » |
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Contemporary Art in Asia Seminar » » |
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Upendranath solo at Bombay Art Gallery » » |
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MEC Gallery’s show at IHC, New Delhi » » |
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Shilpa Gupta at Sakshi,
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Instilling Life at Hacienda Gallery » » |
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Subodh Gupta at Bodhi,
Mumbai » » |
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Red Earth, New Delhi Presents Holi Events » » |
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Communing with Urban Heroines: A culture-specific visual project by Surekha » » |
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Manisha Gera Baswani at Palette, New Delhi » » |
| Features |
The Implicated- Reflections on Audience
Irit Rogoff, founder of the Visual Culture discipline at the Goldsmiths College, University of London, speaks about the collapse of art history and art criticism, and the birth of Visual Culture. She also brings the issue of audience participation under her purview and says that the audience form contingent communities and gets implicated in the act of participating in culture. more »
The Society of Fools
Amrita Gupta-Singh features the initiative called ‘The Gobbet Society’ (The Society of Fools) by the Santiniketan based artist Sanchayan Ghosh and says that it is one of the innovative alternative platforms that helps the ‘uninitiated’ to produce and engage with their own works of art. more »
Saskhi Opens
One of the top galleries in India, Sakshi Gallery, opened its new space at the Tanna House, Nathalal Parikh Marg, Colaba, Mumbai recently. JohnyML attends the inaugural function and comes out with the following observations. more »
Diverse Imaginations
Sandhya Bordewekar, in a catalogue essay contributed to the forthcoming show titled ‘Rainbow of Imaginings’ by the Past Modern Gallery features seven artists who work with diversified mediums. more »
Being Still
In a catalogue essay for the forthcoming group show at the Hacienda Gallery, Mumbai, curator Jasmine Shah Varma goes through the history of the genre Still Life and tells why she has decided to curate a show on Still Life. more »
From the Sidelines of a Seminar
Johny ML attends the Ram Kinker Baij Centenary Seminar at Santiniketan and finds out some unpalatable truths, which otherwise every one would like to overlook. more »
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| Reviews |
Silent Chronicles
Surrealistic and ironical, Dayanita Singh’s photographs and their inter-relationships requires patient viewing, says Amrita Gupta Singh while reviewing the artist’s twin solos in Mumbai. more »
Panchatantra
– Retrieving Memories, Excavating Pasts
C S Venkiteswaran visits the Panchatantra, a group show at the Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi and reads into the meanings of the works of art presented more » |
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