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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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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