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The Phantom Lady Strikes Again: The Artist and the Archive
Artists are like scavengers who use various kinds of references in their work, thereby creating their own archive out of disparate materials.
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I Shot the Sheriff: Who is Afraid of Art Criticism Virgins or Wolves?
Recently, while chatting up with a young student from one of the premier institutes in India, to my surprise she informed me that the professors there discourage the students from qualifying their course as ‘Art History and Criticism’. Instead, they call it ‘Arts and Aesthetics’.
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Tribute
Tushar Joag: The Mind Who Launched a Thousand Soul-Searchings
Tushar Joag, whose demise has elicited a soul searching whilst it may be temporary, that few others may inspire, since he propositioned for the self a kind of dissemination in art and society, conflating what is suspected to be mutually limiting, immiscible or even corrosive.
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Mehlli Gobhai
Gobhai started drawing under Chavda, and teaching himself to be a thorough draftsman. Gobhai went on to make hundreds of life-studies, something he continued doing throughout his life. He ensured to inculcate the discipline in drawing, as an intrinsic part of his life.
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Realism as a Metaphor: Retrospective of Rajan Krishnan
“Change is permanent. Change is both growth and decay. My present works are sort of painted documents of change”
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Review
Jyoti Bhatt: A Mini Retrospective at Baroda
Jyoti Bhatt’s journey began in the post Independent milieu where Indian artists were eager to actively interact with the world and at the same time seek to engage with the local in search of a national identity.
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Review
New Traditions
Do we see such textiles as traditional, modern or contemporary? Of the past or of the present? Or, as the title of this exhibition offers, is it a part of new traditions altogether? The exhibition unfolds with a section devoted to khadi and nationalism, the hand-spun and hand-woven coarse cotton, which Mahatma Gandhi made the symbol of Swaraj India.
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Why We Should/ Should We Remember?
The exhibition is eponymously based on the subject of history, and subsequently attempts to explore the idea of ‘memory’ and the ethics of it.
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Songs from the Blood of the Weary
Spending time with Rekha Rodwittiya is always fulfilling; you feel her passion, her involvement, and her determination to get her point across. This depth of emotion is reflected in her show at the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery at the Chhtarapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in Mumbai.
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UnMYthU: Byproducts of Twenty Years of Performance
Mithu Sen’s practice often looks for the softest parts of vulnerable industries—language, the gender binary, or sexuality under the capitalist lens—and pulls the rug out from under them.
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