Of Wounds and Regeneration

Somnath Hore

Amrita Gupta Singh in this essay reviews the lecture delivered by Dr.Sanjoy Kumar Mallik on the works of Late Somnath Hore. Taking on the Mumbaiites’ indifference for Somnath Hore, she says that had his works been sold in international auction circuits, the Mumbai art frat would have turned up in hundreds for the lecture. more »

Of fantasy, escape and the everyday

Curator and writer Jasmine Shah Varma in an introductory essay written for the forthcoming show at the R&L Fine Arts, New York analyzes the works of five young contemporary artists from India. more »

“We ‘see’, we ‘draw’; but they ‘capture’ ”

Shiwani Bhardwaj features the recently concluded White Wash Video film festival, initiated by the students of Fine Arts Faculty, Baroda. She gives glimpse on the video works presented in the festival. more »

VIDEO GAME of Memory and Record

Vipin Vijay

CS Venkiteswaran writes on Video Game, a short film by the young video film maker Vipin Vijay, who won three Tiger Awards from the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007. more »

The Man Who Touched LaVA

Siju Thomas

Siju Thomas, the man who assists in mounting Bose Krishnamachari’s traveling project, LaVA, recounts his experiences with the project and a few lessons that he learned from the viewers/visitors. more »

Mistry’s Stainless Steel Incarnations

Rashika Ojha visits the mega solo show of the noted sculptor Dhruv Mistry at the Travancore Art Gallery, presented by Bodhi and comes out with a feeling that this show reveals the sophisticated potential of the sculptural medium, stainless steel. more»

Bold Statements in Soft Voice

Amrita Gupta Singh has got nothing but bouquets for the curator Bose Krishnamachari who presented ‘Soft Spoken’, a group show of six women artists. However, she is skeptical about the title being chauvinistic. In this insightful review the author critically contextualizes the bold statements from the soft spoken. more»

A mirage of monumentality

Abhijeet Tamhane, in his characteristic style analyses the ‘butterfly effects’ of the monumental work ‘Mirage’ by N.S.Harsha done for the Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai. more»

There is No Border Here

Johny ML visits Shilpa Gupta’s multimedia installation projects presented at the Apeejay Media Centre, New Delhi, in collaboration with Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai. Having less idea about the technological side of these installations, he tries to read the implied meanings in them. more»

My Forbidden Face - Growing up Under Taliban - A Young Afghani woman’s story

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Mumbai Sketchbook - Abhijit Tamhane

'Kaikoo Banayaa?'

For the 'Kala Ghoda Art Festival' (KGAF) that packed more than 150 films, dances, plays and street acts in nine days (February 3-11, 2007), the stationery aspect of the visual art segment was perhaps a respite for those who wanted an experience in totality, at their convenience. more »

Kolkota Sketchbook - Oindrila Maity

Flowering Time of Galleries

Winter is the time of fun and frolic for the Kolkatans. A lot of activities keep them busy round the season The Kolkata Book Fair follows the Craft, Leather (LEXPO) and Trade fairs. The book fair, for which the avid readers wait all round the year, was inaugurated on 9th February, with Australia being the focal theme this year. more »

Delhi Sketchbook - Johny ML

Diversity in Unity

Palette Art Gallery of Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna is famous for its experimentations within the parameters of conventional gallery practice. It showcases different styles of art from different age groups. more »

Baroda Sketchbook - Janaki Ram

The Abode of Eternal Radicals

Fine Arts Faculty, M.S.University, Baroda, on a Sunday morning looks as if it were heavily partying throughout Saturday night. Summer is already there but clad in the clothes of mourning; it mourns the premature death of winter. The students who are fallen in love and in ideological crisis are seen scattered here and there doing the same thing; arguing. They are all arguing. more »

Version True - Uma Nair

Shrinking Space for Art Criticism

Space in newspapers all over the country seems to be shrinking in terms of art criticism. The only newspaper that carries art criticism in its honest integral format is The Hindu (though its best critic Gayatri Sinha seems to have a silent pause for some time) and to a small measure The Asian Age that carries a page every Tuesday. more »