Art
Art India
“The Other Kind of Seeing”
A heightened awareness of recollected moments and a desire for the outside world marks Mahesh Baliga's works, says Chintan Girish Modi.
3 min |
November 2021
Art India
Swirling Galaxies and Divided Worlds
Hans Carlsson responds to Jitish Kallat's Epicycles and Reena Saini Kallat's Deep Rivers Run Quiet in Sweden.
5 min |
November 2021
Art India
Sinister Devices, Dissolving Monograms
Rm. Palaniappan's cryptic works are imbued with the mystery of unexplored mazes, undeciphered calligraphic forms and unremembered dreams, says Anirudh Chari.
3 min |
November 2021
Art India
The Brittle, Besieged Sense of the Self
Rita Datta offers the contexts to appreciate Reba Hore's melancholy art.
7 min |
November 2021
Art India
NATURE'S MANY LANGUAGES
Nature speaks in many voices to me tranquil, mysterious and flamboyant.
1 min |
November 2021
Art India
An Actor Prepares
Naveen Kishore. Performing the Goddess. Digital print on archival paper. 20" x 30". Edition 2 of 5. 1999. Image courtesy of the artist and Chatterjee & Lal.
2 min |
November 2021
Art India
When a Painting is a ‘Thank You' Note
The Pithoro murals invoke gods and goddesses even as they accommodate landscapes with a pantheon of real and imaginary creatures, informs Sandhya Bordewekar.
5 min |
July 2021
Art India
HER IMPISH RECIPE OF LINES AND SHAPES
Rita Datta traces the directions of Ayesha Sultana’s journey and reflects on the new romantic turn in her work.
6 min |
July 2021
Art India
The Loitering Heart and the Wounded Moon
Shweta Upadhyay responds to the lockdown diaries of two artists that explore themes of waiting and confinement, and address issues related to the erasure of Urdu.
6 min |
July 2021
Art India
The Acrobatic Line
Ganesh Haloi’s new work explores calligraphic flourishes and draws from the deep rhythms of the natural world, finds Anirudh Chari.
2 min |
July 2021
Art India
Secret Trysts and Absent Presences
A group show focuses on the politics and poetics of queer belonging and un-belonging, intimates Lajja Shah.
4 min |
July 2021
Art India
The Artist Who Wished to Inspire
For Shakti Maira (1947-2021), making art was part of a larger spiritual quest. Swati Chopra, Maira’s wife, culls from his journals and offers a window into his negotiation with ‘tension, balance and meditative absorption’.
5 min |
July 2021
Art India
Rocks, Ravines, Rivers and Routes
Manish Pushkale’s abstract works carry intricate numerical and alphabetical scripts, points out Geeti Sen.
3 min |
July 2021
Art India
Pare, Blur and Vibrate
Parul Gupta squares the square to create layered geometrical experiences, reveals Meera Menezes.
3 min |
July 2021
Art India
Domestic Flights
At the centre of a show are homes that are both contested spaces and sites of safety and intimacy, finds Kristine Michael.
4 min |
July 2021
Art India
Behold the Shapeshifting River
Boshudhara Mukherjee’s undulating tapestries conjure up robust interior landscapes, states Jasmine Shah Varma.
3 min |
July 2021
Art India
VIRUS (2010–2039)
An artwork that is conceived as a 30-year project, beginning in 2010 and ending in 2039. This text combines prediction (in italics) and chronology.
5 min |
February 2021
Art India
THE LANDSCAPE WITHIN
If the river runs in me then where is the sea? What will be my defeat?
1 min |
February 2021
Art India
HEALING NATURE
We are living in times of unprecedented environmental disruptions.
1 min |
February 2021
Art India
The Spectrum of Beauty
Members of the queer community project their rich and real selves in Anusha Yadav’s photographs. Lajja Shah is Transfixed.
3 min |
February 2021
Art India
Kaleidoscope: Now
Neha Mitra visits four shows and looks at works by twenty-four artists.
4 min |
February 2021
Art India
Nature, Interrupted
What does it mean to order the environment and tame the wild? Sarasija Subramanian and Astha Patel explore the politics of devious design, discovers Sandhya Bordewekar.
3 min |
February 2021
Art India
Back to the Fractured Future
Remembering Sisyphus frames a lament about our penchant for self-destruction, notes Mario D’Souza.
4 min |
February 2021
Art India
Testing the Waters
Rivers connect; they do not divide. Reena Saini Kallat continues her exploration of partitioned lives in a new show, notes Meera Menezes.
3 min |
February 2021
Art India
Cellphone Victims and other Viral Stories
Chintan Girish Modi finds Sameer Kulavoor capturing the moulting social landscape.
3 min |
February 2021
Art India
Art in the Aftermath of the Catastrophe
The seventh edition of the Yokohama Triennale explores the intense interplay of toxicity and care in a post-apocalyptic world, states Arshiya Mansoor Lokhandwala.
7 min |
February 2021
Art India
Breaking The Psychological Barrier
An untitled painting by V.S. Gaitonde became one of the most expensive works by an Indian artist sold at an auction. It broke the record set by S. H. Raza’s Tapovan, notes Meera Menezes.
3 min |
December 2020
Art India
Scars Of A Sick Body
An uncle’s mysterious ailment led Prajakta Potnis to probe the menacing, internal world of an ill body and its contaminated habitats, points out Shweta Upadhyay.
4 min |
December 2020
Art India
Home In The Year Of Covid-19
Lockdown Diaries
2 min |
December 2020
Art India
WE ARE ALL MIGRANTS
It was in the early 1950s that my father migrated to Vadodara, Gujarat, from his village Bordawe near Kankavli in the Konkan area of southern Maharashtra.
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