In this issue

In this issue, we visit most of the significant national and international exhibitions. At the latest Whitney Biennial, Rohini Iyengar discusses the issues of representation that plague the most prestigious survey of contemporary art in America as Tanya Abraham writes from Kassel about the controversial documenta 15, in the dock for its alleged anti-Semitic slant. Caught between the pandemic and a scorching heat wave, the 13th India Art Fair in Delhi has been staged successfully,
assures Aranya. Nauman Khalid responds to Ali Kazim’s show at the Ashmolean in Oxford as Yashodhara Dalmia visits the 97-year old Krishen Khanna’s mini-retrospective in Delhi.

From Subodh Gupta and Pushpamala N. to Ranjani Shettar and Seher Shah, almost all the key exhibitions this summer have been engagingly discussed in this edition. We carry a host of other features as well. A detail from Manisha Gera Baswani’s Bejewelled Spring graces the cover. Using incisions and ruptures, Gera Baswani explores liminal states persuasively in much of her recent work – thresholds between life and death, borders between nations, divisions between intimate
interiorities and remote projections. As we find ourselves in the middle of transitions, we are drawn to her explorations of conflictual states – disease and health, for instance – that also signal their deep translationality, their abiding mutuality.

KEEPING QUIET AND SPEAKING OUT

The Whitney Biennial 2022 is only partially successful in addressing forms of control and exclusion present in American society and life, observes Rohini Iyengar.

4 mins

HURTING IMAGES

Tanya Abraham discusses how accusations of anti-Semitism have overwhelmed documenta 15.

5 mins

RE-CONNECTING, RE-CONSTRUCTING, RE-IMAGINING

The India Art Fair returns after a pandemic-induced hiatus. Aranya picks and discusses the significant works on display.

5 mins

CASTING A SPELL

Nauman Khalid dwells on Ali Kazim's Suspended in Time at the Ashmolean.

4 mins

Unsung Heroes

From Partition refugees to Bandwallahs, Krishen Khanna installs the marginalised figure at the centre of his practice, observes Yashodhara Dalmia.

5 mins

The Grand Scheme of Things

Objects, memories and rituals come together to create a spectacle. Meera Menezes plays witness to Subodh Gupta's Cosmic Battle.

3 mins

Star Struck

What is the place of the self in the universe? Desmond Lazaro scours the sky for signs, reveals Pooja Savansukha.

3 mins

Anatomy of a Crisis

As people cope with a raging pandemic, N. S. Harsha maps changing collective behaviour and altering community life with empathy and irony, finds Kamayani Sharma.

3 mins

The Double

By capturing the life of a stunt man in Kannada films and exploring the adjustments made during film shoots, Amshu Chukki dwells on the leakages between real and cinematic life, finds K Sridhar.

3 mins

A Rich Mosaic

Anirudh Chari visits a show in Kolkata that tries to chart and celebrate the multi-directional journey of Indian art over the last 75 years.

3 mins

Six Variations on a Theme

Artists take the line for a walk in different directions. Anirudh Chari falls in step.

2 mins

Three Robust Enquiries

KP Reji, T. Venkanna and Smriti Dixit's new works foreground the freedom to resist, desire and reimagine, discovers Jasmine Shah Varma.

5 mins

The Ecology of a Crisis

How do artists respond to environmental degradation, damage and disaster? Lajja Shah visits a group show that addresses the catastrophe staring us in the face.

4 mins

Stitching Images, Weaving Worlds

Six artists seek inspiration from the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri to work across the fault-lines between craft traditions and contemporary practices, discovers Georgina Maddox.

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