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Ravinder Reddy: The Man with the Heads
By V Sobha | Open Magazine 14 April 2020 Ravinder Reddy is working on his biggest sculpture yet: a 24-foot head that is being assembled in a shed built... Read more -
New exhibition showcases collection of Husain's line drawings
The Week 4 April 2020 Over 20 line drawings by modernist painter Maqbool Fida Husain, believed to be created around the time he left India... Read more -
Art that clicks: A look at some of the best Indian online exhibitions and virtual reality shows
By Jaideep Sen | Indulge Express 2 April 2020 3D show: Seer — Seen Vadehra Contemporary Art Gallery, New Delhi is hosting an immersive 3D exhibition online of Sujith... Read more -
‘Art makes people more hopeful’
By Rewati Rau | India Today 2 April 2020 What are these works about? Landscape is a crucial element in most of my paintings. They follow the same trajectory... Read more
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Sujith SN: Seer Strokes
By Rosalyn D’Mello | Open Magazine 27 March 2020 THE TEXTUAL PRELUDE to Sujith SN’s solo Seer-Seen at Vadehra Art Gallery involves a brief but dense excerpt from an... Read more -
Walking through Nalini Malani’s works on Instagram
By Zahra Amiruddin | The Hindu 27 March 2020 Behind doors that can now be witnessed virtually; the resounding voices on the streets, from the (now disbanded, owing to... Read more -
Taming the art of watercolour
By Ornella D’Souza | The New Indian Express 15 March 2020 Many artists find painting in watercolour quite nightmarish, given that it has a mind of its own, magnifies every wrong... Read more -
16 shows you need to visit this summer for the best of South Asian art
By Rahul Kumar | Vogue India 12 March 2020 Seer-Seen by Sujith SN The show comprises a series of landscapes engulfed by the temporary feeling of loitering with a... Read more
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Vizag sculptor's voluptuous women inspire Rohit Bal's fashion line
By Reshmi Chakarvorty | Deccan Chronicle 10 March 2020 Vizag-based sculptor G. Ravinder Reddy is known for his giant heads and voluptuous sculptures that celebrate women. Often portrayed with... Read more -
Balkrishna Doshi's "Architecture For The People" Retrospective To Open At Architekturzentrum Wien
World Architecture 5 March 2020 Balkrishna Doshi's 'Architecture for the People' retrospective is set to open at Architekturzentrum Wien on March 26 and will be... Read more -
The way art is taught is dull, boring and monotonous: Ravinder Reddy
By Atul Mittal | Business Standard 29 February 2020 He is on a high, but quietly so. Sculptor Ravinder Reddy has displayed at some of the choicest venues in... Read more -
‘Freedoms are not given, you have to snatch them’
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 26 February 2020 Known to engage with the sociopolitical environment and art history in his works, artist Atul Dodiya turns to the western... Read more
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The shape of dissent
By Sneha Bhura | The Week 22 February 2020 In Gigi Scaria's sculpture for Vadehra Art Gallery, titled 'Camp', the motif of aggregation is transposed from humans to a... Read more -
‘At Home in the World’: A new book on the artist Gulammohammed Sheikh
By Gayatri Sinha | The Hindu 22 February 2020 For over 50 years, no other artist has possibly been as influential as thinker and pedagogue, and as complex in... Read more -
If you’re in Goa, don’t miss this ongoing exhibition that explores the mysteries of chance
By Ritupriya Basi | Architectural Digest India 8 February 2020 When mapping the trajectory of human history, the roots of every seminal twist of fate can be traced back to... Read more -
Atul Dodiya: Shades of Memoirist
By Rosalyn D'Mello | Open Magazine 7 February 2020 HAVING ENTERED VADEHRA Art Gallery to view Atul Dodiya’s ongoing exhibition, one infers, through Ranjit Hoskote’s wall text, that we... Read more
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The feminine revered
By Rewati Rau | India Today 6 February 2020 It was in 1989 when Ravinder Reddy’s nude sculpture was placed for viewing at a railway station. It was one... Read more -
Indian Artist G Ravinder Reddy’s Groundbreaking Sculptures Of Women Shatter Western Ideals Of Beauty
By Ann Binlot | Forbes 31 January 2020 They’re big, bold, beautiful—and brilliant. For over four decades G Ravinder Reddy’s curvy sculptures of the female form have been... Read more -
The Dodiya effect
By Sanjukta Sharma | Mint Lounge 31 January 2020 Ask any parent what their children are like, and usually their eyes will light up. They won’t stop talking, gushing... Read more -
Delhi: Everything you need to see and experience at the India Art Fair
By Uma Nair | Architectural Digest India 30 January 2020 Vadehra Art Gallery Vadehra Art Gallery brings a slew of works that give insights into millennial movements. Sachin George, the... Read more
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Mesmerising mystical art of Manjit Bawa
By Girish Shrivastava | National Herald 29 January 2020 A modernist master of the figurative genre, Manjit Bawa’s unique treasure of contemporary art mesmerises the viewers. The portrayal of... Read more -
Ruth Asawa: A Line Can Go Anywhere; Benode Behari Mukherjee: After Sight – review
By Laura Cumming | The Guardian 19 January 2020 It hardly seems possible that there could be a major 20th-century artist still ripe for rediscovery, but so it seems... Read more -
David Zwirner exhibits works by Indian artist Benode Behari Mukherjee
Art Daily 15 January 2020 David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of work by Indian artist Benode Behari Mukherjee (1904–1980) at the gallery’s London location.... Read more -
Sudhir Patwardhan's tireless documenting of Mumbai's people and places
By Ranjita Ganesan | Business Standard 11 January 2020 In Sudhir Patwardhan’s Paying the Bill (2005), a woman stands stoically at the counter of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board... Read more
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Art alert: Check out an exhibition of work by Nalini Malani at the Bhau Daji Lad
By Natasha Rego | The HIndustan Times 10 January 2020 Art, heritage, violence and beauty come together in an exhibition of 10 works by experimental artist Nalini Malani at the... Read more -
Benode Behari Mukherjee: After Sight
David Zwirner 10 January 2020 David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Indian artist Benode Behari Mukherjee (1904–1980) at the gallery’s... Read more -
Exhibition in London to focus on works by Indian modernist Benode Behari Mukherjee
The Week 6 January 2020 Indian artist Benode Behari Mukherjee's collages from the late 1950s and 1960s created following his loss of sight will be... Read more -
Exhibition in London to focus on works by Indian modernist Benode Behari Mukherjee
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Grey is the Colour of Ash
By Navtej Sharma | The Indian Express 5 January 2020 November 1984 will remain one of the darkest chapters in the history of free India. More than 3,000 innocent Sikhs... Read more -
Benode Behari: colour in the darkness
By Soumitra Das | Telegraph India 2 January 2020 Benode Behari Mukherjee (1904-1980), in his fictionalized memoir, Chitrakar , published in February 1979, described how he became blind as... Read more -
The Art of Resistance: Sudhir Patwardhan’s ‘Street Play’ reflects the diversity of defiant voices
By Nancy Adajania | Scroll 1 January 2020 Sudhir Patwardhan’s 1981 painting Street Play is a tour de force of political art. Made in the run-up to the... Read more -
The Art of Resistance: Gulammohammed Sheikh’s ‘Speechless City’ is about refusing to look away
By DIva Gujral | Scroll 1 January 2020 The scene is eerily still. A city stands, ghostlike, emptied, sprawled across a square canvas; in the foreground sickly green... Read more
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The Art of Resistance: Kashmir and erasure in ‘Untitled’ by Praneet Soi
By Zehra Jumabhoy | The Scroll 1 January 2020 Praneet Soi has been visiting Srinagar since 2009 and engaging with artisans there. This work – presented at his 2019... Read more -
Retrospective | 'Arpita Singh: Six decades of Painting' at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art 30 December 2019 Arpita Singh (b. 1937, Kolkata) is one of the most significant women artists in India. This retrospective exhibition at KNMA... Read more -
The city and its crowded soul
By Deepanjana Pal | Hindustan Times 28 December 2019 Considering how the people and architecture of Mumbai and Thane have inspired artist Sudhir Patwardhan for decades, it is fitting... Read more -
Spirit that conquers
By Uma Nair | The Hindu 26 December 2019 The year unveiled as a matrix of design innovation, creative vitality and contemporary explorations. Four artists stood apart for the... Read more
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Memories as muse
By S. Ravi | The Hindu 19 December 2019 Drawing from her life, Pranati Panda’s ongoing solo exhibition “Speaking Threads” exudes vibrancy It is not just the number of... Read more -
Notes from a beautiful mind
By Ornella D'Souza | The Indian Express 16 December 2019 Fat woolly worms made from plastic pistils and fabric swatches. Thickets of venous networks connected to serpentine threads. Upon this... Read more -
Painting Time
By Avantika Bhuyan | Mint 15 December 2019 There is a dreamlike quality to the works on display at Gallery Threshold in Delhi—mythical beings emerge from swirling oceans,... Read more -
'Red is the colour of passion'
By Rawati Rau | India Today 12 December 2019 Artist Pranati Panda makes her debut into the art world with her first solo show at Vadehra Art Gallery titled... Read more
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Intertwined Tales
By Sakshi Sharma | The Pioneer 7 December 2019 Artist Pranati Panda’s exhibition Speaking Threads explores landscapes and human organs in sculpture, prints and paintings. By Sakshi Sharma Threads,... Read more -
“Speaking Threads”, an exploration of self-hood as a site of art and life practice by Pranati Panda
By Rameesh | OpenArt 7 December 2019 Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to announce Pranati Panda’s much-awaited first solo show titled Speaking Threads, an exploration of self-hood... Read more -
Mumbai: Sudhir Patwardhan’s NGMA retrospective celebrates 45 years of his love affair with the Maximum City
By Shaikh Ayaz | Architectural Digest India 5 December 2019 On the way to meet artist Sudhir Patwardhan, you encounter all the familiar motifs associated with his art. From Mumbai's... Read more -
Through the eyes of a painter
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‘The rise in the price of art doesn’t reflect its quality’
By Anushree Majumdar | The Indian Express 6 November 2019 Stepping inside the gallery at Mumbai’s Max Mueller Bhavan to see Nalini Malani’s first solo in recent years, ‘Can You... Read more -
White World
By Uma Nair | Daily Pioneer 29 October 2019 Sachin’s metamorphosis Sachin’s works at Art Motif belong to his series Sites of Metamorphosis , which were earlier seen at... Read more -
Muralist Ramachandran returns to his roots
By Anna Mathews | The Hindu 10 October 2019 Have you seen a lotus pond in various moods? It is unlikely you would have appreciated the beauty of a... Read more -
Artistic tribute to Gandhiji
The Indian Express 7 October 2019 “I had two choices. Either to be a musician or a painter. I had studied classical music but I found... Read more
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New exhibition showcases collection of MF Husain’s line drawings
Hindustan Times 10 September 2019 Over 20 line drawings by modernist painter Maqbool Fida Husain, believed to be created around the time he left India... Read more -
Art Beyond Hashtags
By Avantika Bhuyan | Mint 31 August 2019 From digital collages and brick wall sculptures to hand-painted photographs and installations made with Hanji paper, contemporary artists are trying... Read more -
7 artists to watch out for at the upcoming Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2019
By Radhika Iyengar | Vogue India 30 August 2019 Delhi Contemporary Art Week (DCAW) returns for its third edition, illuminating the works of emerging, as well as high calibre... Read more -
Artist Shilpa Gupta conjures the Dead Poets Society at the Kochi Biennale
By Sukanya Garg | Stir World 16 August 2019 Entering the dimly-lit room in Aspinwall, Kochi, which houses contemporary Indian artist Shilpa Gupta’s installation For, in Your Tongue, I... Read more
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A voice against violence
By Giridhar Khasnis | Deccan Herald 11 August 2019 In 2013, Nalini Malani became the first Asian woman to receive the prestigious Arts & Culture Fukuoka Prize for her... Read more -
Interview with NS Harsha
Art Asia Pacific 1 August 2019 “Gathering Delights,” Mysore-based NS Harsha’s solo exhibition at Hong Kong’s Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, includes Nations (2007/17), an... Read more -
Bold Is Beautiful – a Guide to Spotting a Ravinder Reddy Sculpture
Daily Art 20 July 2019 The majority of Reddy’s subjects are women. Their bodies are stylised and striking. You could describe them as both sensual... Read more -
Spirituality, power and energy in Bindu Series by SH Raza
By Saanya Jain | The Stateman 4 July 2019 The sheer magnetism of the black and white painting that hung on the walls of National Gallery of Modern Art... Read more
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Art in a box
By Yamini Pathak | The Hindu 4 July 2019 The Gujarati artist Gulam Mohammed Sheikh used a story-telling and religious tradition called kaavad to bring his art to the... Read more -
‘Uprootedness is not always negative’: Nalini Malani
By Ritika Kochar | The Hindu 28 June 2019 One of our most thought-provoking contemporary artists, Nalini Malani, known for her lush, politically charged mixed-media paintings and drawings, videos,... Read more -
I Draw, Therefore I Am
By Chinki Sinha | india Today 21 June 2019 Mumbai-based Nalini Malani has been making art for 50 years. Concerned with the dispossessed and the voiceless, her work has... Read more -
Art Basel 2019: Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi decodes Benode Behari Mukherjee’s collag
By Uma Nair | Architectural Digest India 14 June 2019 Benode Behari Mukherjee's 30 collages unveil the hand and mind of a modernist whose sight was failing, when he was... Read more
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Prophetess of high art
By Chinki Sinha | India Today 13 June 2019 Here used to be a prophetess once. The burden of Greek mythological character Cassandra's 'gift' is her ability to see... Read more -
Art Basel 2019 — the Feature section is a must-see
By Rachel Spence | Financial Times 13 June 2019 In the swirling commercial vortex of the Art Basel fair, quiet spaces of contemplation are rare and welcome. This year,... Read more -
Meet Nalini Malani, the first Indian contemporary artist to win Rs 54 lakh Joan Miro Prize
By Harun Nair | GQ India 3 June 2019 Indians are breaking records in so many different fields every single day and as it turns out, we are not... Read more -
Benodebehari Mukherjee exhibition to open in Swiss art show
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Installations that aren’t aloof
By Nonika Singh | The Tribune 2 June 2019 Call her a political activist, liberal thinker or cutting edge artist, internationally acclaimed Shilpa Gupta is a voice that resonates... Read more -
Mumbai-based artist Nalini Malani awarded coveted 2019 Joan Miró Prize
FirstPost 24 May 2019 Indian artist Nalini Malani has been chosen the winner of the seventh edition of one of the highly coveted art... Read more -
Indian Artist To Present Largest Solo Show In Hong Kong
NDTV 22 May 2019 The largest-ever solo Hong Kong exhibition of Indian artist NS Harsha, known for his multi-faceted artistic practice, would show how... Read more -
Lotus, Bhils and pure art
By Krutika Behrawala | The Hindu 17 May 2019 If you visit the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Fort, you’ll find large painted murals on canvas sharing... Read more
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Venice Biennale 2019: India's pavilion, celebrating 150 years of Gandhi, is in world's Top 10
By Riddhi Doshi | Forbes India 13 May 2019 Roobina Karode, curator of the India Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia (the Venice Biennale), apologises for a sore throat... Read more -
Venice Biennale: Shilpa Gupta’s piercing installations give form to human frailties
By Uma Nair | Architectural Digest India 13 May 2019 At the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale, Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta is one of only three Indian artists to... Read more -
Interpreter of modern maladies
By Medha Dutta Yadav | The New Indian Express 12 May 2019 Bird’s eyeview acquires a different meaning in Jagannath Panda’s studio in Gurgaon. A giant eagle gazes out of a canvas... Read more -
58th Venice Biennale Review: Brilliance and Bluster
By Jennifer Higgie | Frieze Magazine 9 May 2019 Shilpa Gupta’s elegiac multi-channel sound installation, For, In Your Tongue I Cannot Fit (2017–18), commemorates the words of 100 poets,... Read more
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Ranbir Kaleka: Movements of Memory
By Rosalyn D'Mello | Open Magazine 8 May 2019 THE WORD ‘BEAUTIFUL’ recurs frequently in artist Ranbir Kaleka’s vocabulary. He enunciates the adjective in the spirit of a declaration,... Read more -
INTERVIEW WITH VIVAN SUNDARAM
By Kamayani Sharma | The White Review 1 May 2019 When I meet Vivan Sundaram at his residence in Delhi, he pulls out the catalogue of his 2018 survey exhibition... Read more -
Flowers, snails and everything nice: 50 years of A Ramachandran’s art
By Natasha Rego | Hindustan Times 27 April 2019 If you’ve seen A Ramachandran’s work, you’ll know it’s larger than life, colourful, a celebration of nature, almost whimsical, and... Read more -
A. Ramachandran's Mumbai art retrospective from April 26
Business Standard 24 April 2019 One of the most collected Indian artists, 1935-born A. Ramachandran is known for two distinct styles of work during his... Read more
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An exhibition in Qatar celebrates how artist MF Husain embraced the world
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 22 April 2019 In 2010, when MF Husain was conferred Qatar nationality, the artist acknowledged it through a sketch that featured his trademark... Read more -
In Fear Of A New Dawn: Capturing the uncertainty of the present time
By Sneha Bhura | The Week 9 April 2019 More than 100 artists from across the country issued a joint statement-plea on 8 April to vote 'against hate politics'... Read more -
M.F. Husain: the master’s last works
By Radhika Iyengar | Mint 6 April 2019 In February 2010, M.F. Husain took a blank sheet of paper and drew the silhouette of a horse—a regular presence... Read more -
Gulammohammed Sheikh : An artist of the changing world
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 2 April 2019 In 1969, Baroda was a city ravaged by communal violence. Riots burned in various mohallas and the ideas of communal... Read more
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