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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
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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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Shadow Lines
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 11 September 2017 For over two decades now, Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta has been visiting the borderland between India and Bangladesh to record... Read more -
Jagannath Panda highlights his continued engagement with issues of urbanisation, dislocation and disparities
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 7 September 2017 The very title of the exhibition “Crystal Cities” is a giveaway but artist Jagannath Panda still manages to swing a... Read more -
Exhibition: Jagannath Panda’s work reflects his relationship with cities
By Manik Sharma | Hindustan Times 2 September 2017 It’s perhaps providence that Jagannath Panda’s return to exhibiting after an almost eight-year hiatus coincided with the worst rains in... Read more -
Jagannath Panda’s new show dismantles the walls of our crystal city
By Uma Nair | Architectural Digest India 1 September 2017 Whether canvasses or hybrid sculptures, or works on wood, Bhubaneswar-born artist Jagannath Panda maps diverse themes, concerns and emotions. His... Read more
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5 Key Auctions to Watch for September 2017
Artnet 1 September 2017 Christie’s Asian Art Week in New York will present a jam-packed series of sales at its Rockefeller Plaza location this... Read more -
The world of dark realities
By Shilpa R | The Hindu 29 August 2017 Seven years is a long time for any person to observe the cataclysmic changes his surroundings have been subjected to.... Read more -
Indian Modernist masterpieces to go under the hammer at Christie’s auction in New York
Architectural Digest India 27 August 2017 At Christie's Asian Art Week, works by artists, including Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Tyeb Mehta, Adi Davierwalla, Akbar Padamsee, Jehangir Sabavala,... Read more -
A travel back in time
By Monica Arora | The Tribune 20 August 2017 Shailesh BR’s work is perhaps the most unconventional and unexpected that you may have seen amongst contemporary artists in the... Read more
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ART: Gigi Scaria’s All About This Side at Aicon Gallery, New York
By Devanshi Shah | Architectural Digest India 11 August 2017 New Delhi-based Gigi Scaria's All About This Side will be the artist's first major US solo exhibition debuting at Aicon... Read more -
Why sculptor G Ravinder Reddy is obsessed with large, disembodied heads of women
By Akhila Ranganna | Scroll 7 August 2017 Walk into the foyer of the Bay area at the RMZ Ecospace in Bengaluru and your eyes will immediately be... Read more -
The Layers of Coloured Silence in the Paintings of Sayed Haider Raza
By Udayan Vajpei | The Wire 23 July 2017 Walking through the iron gates, one sees an uneven stretch of land dotted with tall trees, which gives way to... Read more -
Modern & traditional
By Gidhar Khasnis | Deccan Herald 22 July 2017 In October 1996, a major exhibition ‘Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions/Tensions’, was shown simultaneously at three venues in New York:... Read more
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A CONVERSATION WITH VIVAN SUNDARAM ON AMRITA SHER-GIL’S BIOGRAPHY
Verve Magazine 20 July 2017 The early 20th century produced luminaries like Amrita Sher-Gil who, with her audacious paintings of women and rural Indian life,... Read more -
An Exile’s Eye on India
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 11 July 2017 At 95, when he died in exile in London, MF Husain was still painting several hours a day. He dreamed... Read more -
Faiza Butt – Drawing with Meaning and Passion
Asian Voice 11 July 2017 Artists abound all over the world but there are only a handful who layer their work with a symbolism and... Read more -
M. F. Husain’s Modern India at the Art Institute of Chicago
By Daniel McDermon | New York Times 5 July 2017 The artist M. F. Husain honed his skills in 1930s Mumbai as a painter for hire, creating vivid billboards to... Read more
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Spanning craft geographies
By Rinky Kumar | The Hindu 20 June 2017 Contemporary artist Praneet Soi’s artwork is usually influenced by his constant search, journey and observation of cultural contrasts between various... Read more -
Labour paeans: Praneet Soi’s new show blends art, craft, old and new
By Rachel Lopez | Hindustan Times 22 May 2017 Every few months, the Bhau Daji Lad museum opens up its collections to a contemporary artist, encouraging them to see... Read more -
Orbit of fantasy: Nalini Malani’s transgressive play at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
By Uma Nair | Architectural Digest India 18 May 2017 An artist who uses fictional tools and chimerical visuals to emphasise the real and the political. An Indian woman artist... Read more -
Praneet Soi’s Notes on Labour: a sociological approach to making art
By Uma Nair | Architectural Digest 15 May 2017 An artist with a deepened sensibility and sensitivity engages with artisans in Kolkata, Srinagar and Guangzhou in China. He creates... Read more
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My city as a landscape
By Pallavi Chattopadhyay | The Indian Express 29 March 2017 Seeing waves of employees, armed with backpacks, rushing to and from offices during peak hours in Mumbai, artist Sujith SN... Read more -
On the Record
By Pallavi Chattopadhyay | The Indian Express 6 March 2017 A mammoth ship-shaped structure, decorated in hues of red, yellow and blue, awaited visitors at the studio of renowned contemporary... Read more -
K.M. Madhusudhanan
By Meera Menezes | ArtForum 1 March 2017 Joseph Stalin, a rubber horn, and a pig might seem like an incongruous mix. Yet K. M. Madhusudhanan pulled them... Read more -
Paper is putty in the hands of this must-know artist
By Arati Menon | Architectural Digest India 27 February 2017 Call him an engineer, architect, sculptor, or artist—Sachin George Sebastian responds to them all. His paper installations are now instantly... Read more
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Around the world in 193 sewing machines
The Statemen 22 February 2017 From the myriad experiences of his extensive travels across the world was born Indian artist N S Harsha's new installation... Read more -
Giving a new meaning to coir
By Princi Alexander | The New Indian Express 12 February 2017 The first installation that meets your eye at the Pepper House in Fort Kochi is that of a woman falling... Read more -
I ask people to find their own meaning in my work: Praneet Soi
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N.S. Harsha: Charming Journey at Mori Art Museum
Mori Art Museum 4 February 2017 N. S. Harsha was born in 1969 in southern India's ancient capital Mysuru, where he continues to reside and pursue... Read more
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Left and right of COIR
By Priyadershini S. | The Hindu 21 January 2017 I f there is one conversation, among the many, that artist Praneet Soi had with the craftsmen of the coir... Read more -
‘If anything engages me, it is a sense of wonder’
By Vaishna Roy | The Hindu 7 January 2017 Painter, poet, critic and teacher, Gulammohammed Sheikh has reigned as one of India’s most important contemporary artists for over four... Read more -
The Red Palette
By Pallavi Pundir | The Indian Express 23 December 2016 The innards of Vadehra Art Gallery (VAG) in Delhi look sparse, a quality inherent to the space, even though it’s... Read more -
Sara Zielinski Interviews Faiza Butt
By Sara Zielinski | HuffPost 14 November 2016 The show is curated by Justine Ludwig (with whom I have worked before, exhibiting at the Contemporary Arts Centre, Ohio).... Read more
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Calling all art devotees: These artists need to be a part of your collection
By Meenakshi Thirukode | Vogue India 8 November 2016 The Kerala-born Indian filmmaker and artist has a strong interdisciplinary practice. His seminal installation The Logic of Disappearance—A Marx Archive... Read more -
A political canvas
By Saimi Sattar | The Telegraph 30 October 2016 An important turning point in my life came when I joined the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda, in 1990... Read more -
Colours of Concern
By Pallavi Chattopadhyay | The Indian Express 11 October 2016 Tucked in a corner of Delhi’s Vadehra art gallery, artist Praneet Soi stands before his painting, September. He pauses for... Read more -
Nalini Malani
BY DEBRA LENNARD | Frieze 6 September 2016 ‘Nalini Malani: In Search of Vanished Blood’ is one half of Eva Respini’s punchy first season of in-house exhibitions as... Read more
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Sachin George Sebastian Immortalises Cities With His Magical Paper Art
By Shireen Jamooji | Homegrown 29 August 2016 Art was created to be limitless, to defy mediums, audiences and themes and to exceed expectations. Sachin George Sebastian is... Read more -
S H Raza’s journey
By Yashodhara Dalmia | The Indian Express 26 July 2016 The passing away of Syed Haider Raza leaves behind only a few of those magnificent men with their splendid art... Read more -
An era in art comes to an end with SH Raza
By Debarati S Sen | Times of India 25 July 2016 With the demise of Syed Haider Raza in New Delhi on Saturday .. Read more -
Syed Haider Raza, force of art, never tired of the bindu
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 24 July 2016 When he was a child, his teacher adopted numerous tactics to discipline him. Until, one day, the teacher drew a... Read more
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S H Raza passes away; 10 things you must know about the legendary artist
India Today 23 July 2016 Legendary painter S H Raza who popularised Indian concepts and iconography globally and built a towering legacy of modern art... Read more -
The evolution of S.H. Raza
By Rosalyn D'Mello | Mint 23 July 2016 Our limited imagination often compels us to conceive of timelines as linear. Our art historical impulses coerce us into either... Read more -
SH Raza: The man who brought ‘bindu’ to the canvas and made it his own
By Aasheesh Sharma | The Hindustan Times 23 July 2016 A founding member of the iconic Progressive Artists Group in 1947 – along with MF Husain, KH Ara, HA Gade,... Read more -
S.H. Raza: The man who saw the universe in a bindu
By Ziya Us Alam | The Hindu 23 July 2016 A few years ago, aged 89, S.H. Raza was game to talk to children almost like one, maybe just a... Read more
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LOSE YOURSELF IN IMAGE POEMS BY A RAMACHANDRAN
By Huzan Tata | Verve Magazine 11 May 2016 One look at the artist’s work, and you’re immediately reminded of Raagmala paintings – their beauty lies in their simplicity.... Read more -
The classic lady and the earthen pot: A Ramachandran's works on display
By Radhika Bhalla | India Today 30 April 2016 The sinuous form of a lady - the pallu of her sari covering her head - reaches out to pluck... Read more -
EXPLORE THE POND NEAR THE FIELD
By Huzan Tata | Verve Magazine 20 March 2016 Kerala isn’t known as God’s own country for no good reason. Natural beauty, culture and art abound. An exhibition in... Read more -
Artist Faiza Butt on Exploring Sexuality and Islam
By Harry Seymour | Another Magazine 16 March 2016 Faiza Butt is a Pakistan-born artist who currently lives and works in London. Her rich and sumptuous works are known... Read more
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