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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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Culcutta Jottings
After the languid and not very stimulating monsoon months, the Calcutta art scene is abuzz once again. A few good solo exhibitions and an excellent ‘Gen Next IV’ have done much to provide the viewing public with some unexpected treats.
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Where have all the collectors gone?
What does is it mean to be a ‘collector’ today? It’s being used so liberally in the recent 4 years that its true sanctity has vanished.
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I Shot the Sheriff: Art in the Time of Blog-Era
A little backgrounder: Almost thirty years back, when there were not even land phones in villages (forget internet and blogs), as a 10 year old boy, I became addicted to writing. The addiction came through a rejection; rejection from the editor of a children’s magazine.
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The Phantom Lady Strikes Again: Heroes
The air is thick with identity controversies which seem to manifest themselves over statues and monuments. The Phantom Lady ponders.
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Lowbrow Art: Intimations of a Pan Global Underground
Black is part of the renaissance of aesthetics as well as a thorn in the side of the western canon. It is a social space and a civil rights movement, a fashion statement and a designers dream. It is both fear and beauty rolled into one and it can be an attitude and a tradition.
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