Art India Magazine - June 2015

In this issue

Offering a balanced review is one of the most crucial acts of Criticism. Often considered lowly, a review or a report is easily dismissed as a pointed, opinionated piece that errs on the side of brevity. In a landscape where the catalogue essay reigns supreme, the humble review has an important role to play – it has to flex its muscle but be responsible; it has to provide the reader information and insight and do it without fear or favour.

In our issue this time, we bring you a bouquet of features on all the important shows in the last five months. In the Special Reports, we have Pepe Karmel contextualizing the V. S. Gaitonde show at the Guggenheim, New York, and Zehra Jumabhoy considering carefully the installations at the Sharjah Biennial. Meera Menezes takes stock of the India Art Fair in Delhi as I respond to the spirit that moves the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.

We carry more than 25 long and short reviews. Meera Menezes enters the image worlds of Arpita Singh, Anita Dube and Anju Dodiya as Amitava Kumar moves through the stories spun by the Raqs Media Collective. Girish Shahane spends time with Atul Dodiya and Arun Kolatkar at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum as Prajna Desai makes sense of Pierre Huyghe’s monkey in a mask. Vivek Menezes is moved by Lancelot Ribeiro’s paintings as S. Kalidas assess es Haku Shah’s new works featuring Gandhiji. Kamayani Sharma visits CAMP and A. Balasubramaniam as Quddus Mirza takes us to the finest shows in Pakistan.