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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 -
An artist whose aesthetic involves speaking to viewers without being loud
By Bhumika Popli | Sunday Guardian 30 March 2019 Ranbir Kaleka’s latest exhibition, Fear of a New Dawn , is now on view at Delhi’s Vadehra Art Gallery and... Read more -
Vivan Sundaram and his photographic eye
By Benita Fernando | Mint 30 March 2019 There are numerous ways to describe Vivan Sundaram—conceptual artist, installer, archivist and sculptor—but surely, “photographer' is not one of them.... Read more -
Video artist Ranbir Kaleka reflects on the present times, his current exhibition in Delhi and being at ease with one’s medium
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 24 March 2019 The question to ask is where does a work of art come from? It comes from lived life, from what... Read more
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The Arab Museum of Modern Art celebrates MF Husain with retrospective
By Ranjit Hoskote | Mumbai Mirror 24 March 2019 Read more -
The Art of Time | Books
By Sukant Deepak | India Today 22 March 2019 Delhi-based artist Ranbir Kaleka insists that the title of his latest exhibition, Waking to the Face of the New Dawn,... Read more -
Arpita Singh’s 60-year-old legacy-in-the-making finally emerges as a major retrospectiveArpita Singh’s 60-year-old legacy-in-the-making finally emerges as a major retrospective
By Gerogina Maddox | Architectural Digest India 19 March 2019 Arpita Singh's women are robust and earthbound, but they defy gravity and float in a weightless world alongside airplanes, pregnant... Read more -
Chennai Photo Biennale unearths the stories behind iconic images
By Saritha Rao | Architectural Digest India 19 March 2019 It is either an act of great strategy or the result of a reckless dare to hope to visit all... Read more
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Artist Faiza Butt Speaks on Artistic Inequality for Stellar International Art Foundation
By Anetha Sivananthan | Arts and Collection 11 March 2019 Internationally renowned artist, Faiza Butt and award-winning writer and art historian, Dr. Sona Datta have spoken out about artistic inequality... Read more -
At 82, is Arpita Singh ‘the next really big thing’ in Indian art?
Christie's 11 March 2019 Born in West Bengal in 1937, 10 years before the Partition of India, Arpita Singh is now widely considered one... Read more -
Atul Bhalla
By Meera Menezes | Art Forum 1 March 2019 Was the chunk of meat in Atul Bhalla’s photograph Still Life with Fictitious Object , 2017, as innocuous as it... Read more -
Between Sight and Insight
By Pratyusha Chatterjee | The Asian Age 25 February 2019 Spanning various periods of the artist's oeuvre, an exhibition has recently been held in Delhi's Vadhera Art Gallery to acknowledge... Read more
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An intimate encounter
By Uma Nair | The Hindu 22 February 2019 To step into “Between Sight and Insight: Glimpses of Benode Behari Mukherjee” at both the Vadehra Galleries in Delhi is... Read more -
An exhibition shares how the visually challenged pioneer of modern Indian art, Benode Behari Mukherjee saw the world
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 18 February 2019 Around a month after Santiniketan announced that it will honour its eminent alumni Benode Behari Mukherjee with a gallery dedicated... Read more -
Six decades of art
By Latika Gupta | India Today 8 February 2019 From January 30 to June 30, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) is hosting the first ever retrospective of... Read more -
EXCLUSIVE: Gulam Mohammed Sheikh on art, life and seeing the uns
By Akrita Reyar | Times Now News 6 February 2019 The perpetuity of life is an intrinsically tied succession of events; one unfolding after another, each submerged into the other... Read more
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Between Sight and Insight: Glimpses of Benode Behari Mukherjee at Vadehra Art Gallery
OpenArt 27 January 2019 Spread across both our gallery spaces, this major exhibition curated by R. Siva Kumar features more than 100 artworks from... Read more -
Poetic Resistance | Art
India Today Magazine 11 January 2019 For her immersive sound installation at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, artist Shilpa Gupta incorporates poems by Allen Ginsberg and 100 jailed... Read more -
A Ramachandran: ‘I am an artist who paints by the acre’
By Rosalyn D'Mello | Open Magazine 9 January 2019 LUMINOUS SHADES of tangerine, mossy green and sunlight yellow seem to leap out at me from a large canvas that... Read more -
A. Ramachandran: An Exhibition Of Works Form His 50 Years Of Art Practice
By R. Siva Kumar | Mumbai Live 1 January 2019 NGMA Mumbai and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi come together to present the works of eminent Indian artist Shri A.... Read more
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Portraits of truth
By Proma Chakraborty | The Patriot 6 December 2018 “Truth was supposed to hit home before a lie.” Reads the bright red text on the wall leading to an... Read more -
Finding hues of art and purpose in water works
By Ayesha Singh | The New Indian Express 1 December 2018 Unrestricted nd unrestrained, artist Atul Bhalla’s conscience reflects lucidly in the ripples of water that throw back images of perseverance.... Read more -
The tragedy is that art has become vocal: A. Ramachandran
By Anuj Kumar | The Hindu 30 November 2018 Unlike the densely populated lotus ponds on his canvas, it is easier to navigate A. Ramachandran’s mind. On a balmy... Read more -
Mind Games
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 23 November 2018 Considered the last book written by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, before his final years of insanity, Ecce Homo: How One... Read more
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How a man suffers to become a superhuman
By Shillpi A Singh | The New Indian Express 21 November 2018 Kerala born Gigi Scaria, 45, returns to the city where he earned his master’s degree from Jamia Millia Islamia with... Read more -
SH Raza: A retrospective titled 'Traversing Terrains' illuminates the artist's legacy, and his art over 50 years
By Suryasarathi Bhattacharya | FirstPost 11 November 2018 A little over two years after his death, a retrospective — Traversing Terrains — at Mumbai’s Piramal Museum of Art,... Read more -
Social currents and urban life are at the centre of Gigi Scaria’s multiform art
By Bhumika Popli | The Sunday Guardian 10 November 2018 In his latest solo show, on view at Delhi’s Vadehra Art Gallery, artist Gigi Scaria seems to be saying, “You... Read more -
KM Madhusudhanan: Shadow Play
By Avantika Bhuyan | Open Magazine 8 November 2018 K.M. Madhusudhanan’s works don’t make for hasty viewing. You need to slow down, and allow the artwork to reveal its... Read more
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Sculptural exhibition inspired from Nietzsche opens
Business Standard 1 November 2018 A collection of sculptural works whose title is inspired by philosopher Nietzsches seminal 'Ecce Homo: How to Become What You... Read more -
Figments of reality
By Zahra Amiruddin | The Hindu 30 October 2018 Behind the glass windowpane that overlooks the sea shore of Haji Ali, exists a world of swirling prima ballerinas, cheetahs... Read more -
Art of the Matter
By Pallavi Chattopadhyay | The Indian Express 24 October 2018 The year was 1888 when social reformer Narayana Guru, born in an Ezhava family in Kerala, decided to make a... Read more -
The fulcrum of historic fascinations
By Ayesha Singh | The Indian Express 21 October 2018 Inspiration is a bird that flaps its wings at a frenzied pace to take flight into a gratifying space that... Read more
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This exhibtion merges the global wars and cinematic traditions
Sunday Guardian 20 October 2018 K.M. Madhusudhanan’s solo exhibition, entitled Granite Lamp & Mirror , includes oil paintings, sculptures, and ink and charcoal drawings, produced... Read more -
Exhibition explores political 'darkness' through Narayana Guru's philosophy
Outlook 16 October 2018 For Kerala-born filmmaker-artist K.M. Madhusudhanan, the interplay between personal and political, local and global, and light and shade form the... Read more -
Pain and Suffering in Gieve Patel's Art
BY SUCHISMITA UKIL | Reader's Digest 11 October 2018 Based out of Mumbai, this multifaceted artist is a poet, playwright and painter. Having been interested in the body, which... Read more -
The Performative Photography of Atul Bhalla
By Suchismita Ukil | Reader's Digest 11 October 2018 Artist Atul Bhalla has travelled the entire arc from painting and conceptual art to settling on photography as the medium... Read more
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Nalini Malani: A Memoirist for the Subaltern
By Radhika Iyengar | Mint 17 September 2018 A few weeks before artist Nalini Malani’s retrospective exhibition, The Rebellion Of The Dead: 1969-2018—Part II, opens at Castello di... Read more -
The Freedom In Being Someone Else
By Suchismita Ukil | Reader's Digest 4 September 2018 Shilpa Gupta is a conceptual artist best known for mixing of media with technology, to create art that is evocative... Read more -
Make it New
By Latika Gupta | India Today 25 August 2018 Contemporary art in India is mostly championed by the private sector. From August 28-30, the India Habitat Centre will play... Read more -
Five must-see shows and events at Edinburgh Art Festival
By Aimee Dawson | The Art Newspaper 27 July 2018 A forest of 100 microphones and 100 impaled papers fills the Edinburgh College of Art’s Engine House. The microphones, suspended... Read more
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Words of detained poets inspire new work at Edinburgh Art Festival
By Kristeen Paterson | The National 26 July 2018 The sound installation by India’s Shilpa Gupta was unveiled yesterday at the city’s Engine House venue, part of Edinburgh College... Read more -
Shilpa Gupta: the artist bringing silenced poets back to life
By Andrew Dickson | The Guardian 25 July 2018 In a disused fire station in Tollcross, Edinburgh, Shilpa Gupta stands, head cocked, beneath a row of speakers strung from... Read more -
Gieve Patel's Collected Poems offer a rare journey into the writer’s mind and imagination, its development
By Manika Sharma | FirstPost 13 July 2018 William Wordsworth wrote in Resolution and Independence that young poets always ‘begin in gladness’. In the introduction to Gieve Patel’s... Read more -
NS HARSHA: FACING | ART INTERVIEW
Buzz Magazine 5 July 2018 On the eve of an exciting new exhibition in Glynn Vivian gallery’s revamped exhibition space, Polina Zelmanova talks to Indian... Read more
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‘Admonish me if I call myself Hindu or Muslim’: SH Raza’s art was an exploration of spirituality
By Vikram Zutshi | Scroll 28 June 2018 'Black is the mother of all colours,” said Syed Haider Raza. “It is the point from where all energy in... Read more -
‘Collected Poems’ by Gieve Patel reviewed by Manohar Shetty
By Manohar Shetty | The Hindu 23 June 2018 It’s often been claimed that poets wear ‘armour’, a shield against the scepticism and scorn of those who are bewildered... Read more -
Photographer Gauri Gill takes her desert journeys
by Vandana Kalra | Indian Express 8 June 2018 Gauri Gill has always managed to accurately depict the realities of our time, and also raise questions about it, especially... Read more -
Inspired By Water, Performance Artist Atul Bhalla is Making People Notice Environmental Issues
By Simantini Dey | News 18 5 June 2018 The oeuvres of Atul Bhalla, a Delhi based conceptual and performance artist, are inquisitions of our relationship with water --... Read more
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History is refracted in the ongoing Vivan Sundaram retrospective
By Gayatri Sinha | The Hindu 2 June 2018 Viewing an exhibition brings about its own kind of experience. ‘Step Inside And You Are No Longer A Stranger’, the... Read more -
Of poetry, paintings and Gieve Patel
By Shanta Gokhale | Mumbai Mirror 24 May 2018 On Friday at Kitab Khana, Gieve Patel told us he had found in Wassily Kandinsky’s book Concerning the Spiritual in... Read more -
Vivan Sundaram: My Experiments with Art
By Bhumika Popli | Sunday Guardian 14 April 2018 It is difficult to understand an artist’s mind. Only his work could provide you with certain linkages to his psyche,... Read more -
Vivan Sundaram: Between Matter and Memory
By Rosalyn D'Mello | Open Magazine 11 April 2018 MINIATURE terracotta figurines idle by the wayside. I am tempted, but do not dare touch them. As I await Vivan... Read more
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Manjeet Bawa’s oil-on-canvas sold for Rs7.8 crore, a record for the artist
Hindustan Times 29 March 2018 That’s what happened with renowned artist Manjit Bawa’s untitled oil-on-canvas, created in 2000, depicting Vishnu reclining on a bed of... Read more -
Amid the real and surreal...
By Monica Arora | The Tribune 25 March 2018 It is believed that a person who is well-travelled is well-versed with multi-cultural influences and, eventually, his or her work... Read more -
NS Harsha: Mixing cosmos and consumerism
By Tanuj Kumar | Mint 23 March 2018 NS Harsha’s Reclaiming The Inner Space is mammoth. The Mysuru-based artist’s wall-mounted installation, almost 40ft wide, takes up a whole... Read more -
Top Architecture Prize Goes to Low-Cost Housing Pioneer From India
By Robin Pogrebin | New York Times 7 March 2018 Balkrishna Doshi doesn’t talk just about his buildings. This architect, urban planner and educator talks about how his buildings aim... Read more
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WheredoIendandyoubegin - Shilpa Gupta
By Nicole Sciarone | Metropolis M 3 March 2018 Museum Voorlinden's current exhibition Where do I begin is an overview of Mumbai based artist Shilpa Gupta’s practice. Her work... Read more -
Vivan Sundaram: Indian art 'needed a new vocabulary'
By Somak Ghoshal | CNN 19 February 2018 The title of artist Vivan Sundaram's retrospective at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi welcomes the... Read more -
An exhibition of Rameshwar Broota’s new work makes a subtle comment on the violence in our lives
By Georgina Maddox | The Hindu 18 February 2018 In a studio hidden from prying eyes, on the fourth floor of Triveni Kala Sangam in Delhi, artist Rameshwar Broota’s... Read more -
S.H. Raza: The Burning Landscape
By Yashodhara Dalmia | Sotheby's 12 February 2018 The year 1950 would be a defining moment for the artist Sayed Haider Raza in more ways than one. In... Read more
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An exhibition of Rameshwar Broota’s new work makes a subtle comment on the violence in our lives
By Gerogina Maddox | The Hindu 10 February 2018 In a studio hidden from prying eyes, on the fourth floor of Triveni Kala Sangam in Delhi, artist Rameshwar Broota’s... Read more -
Retrospective | 'Vivan Sundaram: FIFTY YEARS STEP INSIDE AND YOU ARE NO LONGER A STRANGER' at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art 9 February 2018 KNMA is presenting this year, the first ever retrospective of eminent artist Vivan Sundaram, one of the most influential artists... Read more -
Anju Dodiya’s solo exhibit is full of exquisite surprises
By Deepanjana Pal | Vogue India 7 February 2018 It's the eyes you see first—wide and fearful but ferocious. Crouched at the bathroom of a mattress that has been... Read more -
‘I am always responding to crisis’: Artist Vivan Sundaram on 50 years of his work
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 29 January 2018 Vivan Sundaram, one of India’s pioneering video and installation artists, brings together 50 years of his work in “Step inside... Read more
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Vivan Sundaram: A man of all mediums
By Avantika Bhuyan | Mint 26 January 2018 It was 1966 and London was in the throes of a cultural renaissance. It was the era of Mick Jagger... Read more -
Why Goa’s Sensorium should be on every art lovers calendar
BY SHAHNAZ SIGANPORIA | Vogue India 24 January 2018 Memories of a Metamorphosis by Sachin George Sebastian Memories of a Metamorphosis by Sachin George Sebastian Read more -
Why Goa’s Sensorium should be on every art lovers calendar
By Shahnaz Sigaporia | Vogue India 24 January 2018 Read more -
Dedicated gallery to be set up for visually challenged master painter Benode Behari Mukherjee
By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya | Hindustan Times 30 December 2017 Just about a century after Benode Behari Mukherjee (1904-1980) enrolled as a first batch student of Kala Bhavan in Visva-Bharati... Read more
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The Inner Eye: Satyajit Ray's portrait of the great artist Benode Behari Mukherjee
By Bhaskar Chattopadhyay | FirstPost 17 December 2017 After completing his graduation in Economics from Presidency College in Kolkata, Satyajit Ray went to Shantiniketan in 1940, to study... Read more -
NS Harsha
Art It Asia 4 December 2017 Currently the subject of a large-scale solo exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, NS Harsha was born in... Read more -
Painter with doctor's precision
By Aseem Bhargav | The Pioneer 21 November 2017 Sudhir Patwardhan is unflinching in his portrayal of a life in change, says Aseem Bhargav Few painters can possibly claim... Read more -
Nalini Malani: A Female Voice in Art
By Rasalyn D'Mello | Mint 20 November 2017 Altogether, it was a very rich atmosphere.' This is how Nalini Malani described her experience at the Vision Exchange Workshop... Read more
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Sudhir Patwardhan's Spectres: The artist comes to terms with the perils within
By Manik Sharma | FirstPost 19 November 2017 There comes a point in every man’s life, usually after he is past a certain age, that he turns his... Read more -
‘I try not to exploit the subject in the name of self-expression’
By Shilpa R | The Hindu 13 November 2017 Until 2005, Sudhir Patwardhan lived two lives — that of a radiologist and a painter. If the former was his... Read more -
Sudhir Patwardhan: An Artist Every Day
By Rosalyn D'Mello | Open Magazine 8 November 2017 UNDER THE PRETEXT of two upcoming shows, I made every attempt to invite myself over to veteran artist Sudhir Patwardhan’s... Read more -
We need a space where ideas can confront each other: Artist Sudhir Patwardhan
By Pooja Pillai | The Indian Express 29 October 2017 Why is the exhibition named ‘Spectres’? I’m someone who can’t think of titles. ‘Reflections’ was one of the things that... Read more
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Creative instincts
By Sukant Deepak | India Today 6 October 2017 What is interesting about Rameshwar Broota's art is the fact that it undergoes multiple transformations almost every decade. Take for... Read more -
Sudhir Patwardhan’s Spectres illuminates the intimate space of home
By Uma Nair | Architectural Digest India 3 October 2017 Vadehra Art Gallery presents Sudhir Patwardhan's Spectres, at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. The show comprises a body of over 80... Read more -
Brush with canvas: ‘Art of any form must make us think & reflect’
By Parul | The Indian Express 24 September 2017 NOTHING CAN compel Rameshwar Broota to paint, for he believes that only when he has something to say, will he... Read more -
Unrestrained images
By Vinay Mishra | The Tribune 21 September 2017 The Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi is organising a talk and audio-visual presentation by renowned artist and photographer Rameshwar Broota on... Read more
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