In this issue

As we confront what is arguably the worst health crisis in the last hundred years, we witness devastating economic and social transformations around us. It is in times such as these that one realises the reassurance literature and art have to offer. With other forms of creative expression like cinema, they explore the resilience of the human spirit – the will that finds no problem insuperable. In our panel discussion this time, Sangita Jindal, Shireen Gandhy, Atul Dodiya and I look at art in the time of the pandemic and respond to some of the challenges.

Art In The Time Of The Pandemic

Sangita Jindal, Shireen Gandhy, Atul Dodiya and Abhay Sardesai assess the looming crisis and discuss the way ahead.

10+ mins

New Questions in a New Time

Premjish Achari talks to gallerists, organisers and viewers about the recently concluded India Art Fair, and ruminates on the role of the art critic at an art fair and of the art fair in turbulent times.

7 mins

The Exhibitionary Complex

Shows with layered themes dot Panjim on the occasion of the Serendipity Arts Festival. Meera Menezes pays a visit.

7 mins

Sharing the Future

The Dhaka Art Summit revisits colonial pasts and devises collective strategies for the present, points out Abhijan Toto.

5 mins

Fact and Friction

The second edition of the Lahore Biennale addresses conflicts of history and explores a range of issues that include religious strife and the climate crisis, observes Quddus Mirza.

6 mins

City of Desires

Nalini Malani’s recent exhibitions produce ways of re-examining history and culture, observes Pooja Savansukha.

6 mins

Scars of History

Over the last sixty years, the figure and the face have indexed political traumas and emotional crises in Jogen Chowdhury’s works, states Geeti Sen.

4 mins

Artist in Residence

Shapeshifting homes, houses on wheels and diagrammatic dwellings: Zarina’s solo at the KNMA underscores a preoccupation with the shifting idea of identity, suggests Meera Menezes.

4 mins

Cartography Of The Psyche

An atlas of visual cryptograms and missives to extra-terrestrials are part of Jitish Kallat’s new public address. K. Sridhar unlayers the references.

4 mins

Resisting the Apocalypse

Prabhakar Pachpute’s works combine an activist’s anger with a romantic’s despair, states Rita Datta.

4 mins

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ART India is India's premier art magazine: over the last 25 years, it has been responsible for the promotion of a critical discourse around diverse art forms, activities and disciplines.

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