Art India
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.
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August 2022
Art India
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.
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August 2022
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Star Struck
What is the place of the self in the universe? Desmond Lazaro scours the sky for signs, reveals Pooja Savansukha.
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August 2022
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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.
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August 2022
Art India
Unsung Heroes
From Partition refugees to Bandwallahs, Krishen Khanna installs the marginalised figure at the centre of his practice, observes Yashodhara Dalmia.
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August 2022
Art India
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.
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August 2022
Art India
Six Variations on a Theme
Artists take the line for a walk in different directions. Anirudh Chari falls in step.
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August 2022
Art India
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.
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August 2022
Art India
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.
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August 2022
Art India
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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August 2022
Art India
CASTING A SPELL
Nauman Khalid dwells on Ali Kazim's Suspended in Time at the Ashmolean.
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August 2022
Art India
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 min |
August 2022
Art India
All Eyes on The Prize
Jasmine Shah Varma gives a round-up of this year's Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India.
4 min |
August 2022
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നൈജീരിയയിലെ ക്രൈസ്തവരുടെ ചോര
പീസ് കോർണർ
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July 2022
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music as muse
A multidisplinary visual artist, Aaron Pinto, also known as Kidsquidy, has had an interesting journey that started with MTV and has him now working on everything from music videos to stage design
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DEVELOPING A DISCOURSE
Documentary photographer Taha Ahmad believes his work has a greater purpose than merely being admired by a select audience for its esthetic value. It's when people are able to see the underside of society and understand the prevailing social injustice that the work tries to reveal that it is truly worthwhile.
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DANGEROUSLY DELICATE
Kavya Potluri's attention to minute detail is what sets her intricate and unconventional jewelry apart
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Tiny little Stories
Creating miniature worlds allows Ruchika Nambiar to continue to play childlike games of make-believe
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time tested DESIGN
Surrounded by art and architecture as a child, Sarah Sham went on to take the family antiques business in a new direction through her interior design venture
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Stories faces tell
Aditya Narula dabbled in various vocations before he realized portraiture was the best way to express the fascinating complexities of the people he encountered along the way
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Creating KAIRA
Long fascinated by Indian fabric, Nikita Gupta has launched an attractive line of contemporary apparel in traditional block prints
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A Legacy Continues
Leveraging the success of his family's export business, Naman Jain is focusing on creating a retail presence in India
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മീഡിയോക്രിറ്റി തിങ്ങിനിറയുന്ന കേരളം
മലയാളികൾ ജീവിതം തേടി പ്രവാസി യായി മാറുന്നത് ദൈവത്തിന്റെ സ്വന്തം നാട്ടിലെ പറുദീസയുടെ മറച്ചു പിടിച്ച നേരിലേക്കാണ് വിരൽ ചൂണ്ടുന്നത്. പലായനം ചെയ്യുന്ന മലയാളി യുവതയും കുടിയേറ്റം നടത്തുന്ന അതിഥിത്തൊഴിലാ ളികളും ഭാവി കേരളത്തോട് എന്തു സംസാരിക്കുന്നു?
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May 2022
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എഴുത്തുകാരിയെന്ന നിലയിൽ ഞാൻ അസംതൃപ്തയാണ്
സ്ത്രീപക്ഷം മനുഷ്വ പക്ഷത്തിന്റെ ശാഖയാണ് എന്ന് വിശ്വസിക്കുന്ന എഴുത്തുകാരി. വെറുതെ പറഞ്ഞു പോകാതെ വായനക്കാരുടെ മനസ്സിനെ പൊള്ളിക്കുന്ന കഥകൾ തേടിപ്പോകുന്ന എഴുത്തുരീതി. മതവും രാഷ്ട്രീയവു മൊക്കെ സ്ത്രീവിരുദ്ധത എത്രമാത്രം അനുവദിച്ചു കൊടുക്കുന്നുവെന്ന തിരിച്ചറിവ്. സ്ത്രീ ജീവിതത്തിന്റെ തീക്ഷ്ണയാഥാർത്ഥ്യങ്ങൾ ഗ്രേസി കണ്ടെത്തുന്നു.
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May 2022
Art India
Roles People Play
Performance art in India has come of age in Delhi, claims Meera Menezes, as she engages with the work of inspired practitioners from the city.
10 min |
March 2022
Art India
Moulting Skin, Growing Hands
Photography is borrowing from sculpture, painting, fiction and cinema to create an expanded field. Shweta Upadhyay reports about contemporary Indian photographers and their new interventions.
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March 2022
Art India
Curatorism: In Praise of Folly
Even as their interventions influence standards of assessment, their choices may not always do justice to complex art practices, argues Girish Shahane, as he sheds light on the new status of curators in the context of contemporary art.
10+ min |
March 2022
Art India
Art in Exile?
Johan Pijnappel traces the journey of video art in India and raises some poignant questions.
10+ min |
March 2022
Art India
"A GREAT BOON TO THE INDIAN ART WORLD"
Gieve Patel remembers how an adventurous approach helped win more readers for the magazine.
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March 2022
Art India
WHEN MANJIT BAWA BROKE INTO A JIG
Anupa Mehta, the Founding Editor of ART India paints a vivid picture of the early years.
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