Content 2017
Vol.XXI ,Issue I,January 2017
Prelude 18
Contributors 20
Editorial 21
Contents 22
Kaleidoscope 26
Lead essays
Gulammohammed Sheikh re-introduces the genius called K. G. Subramanyan 26
Savita Apte revisits the key stations in S. H. Raza's evolution
as one of India's pioneering non-figurative artists 35
Yashodhara Dalmia turns the spotlight on celebrated Sri Lankan modernist George Keyt's passage to India 42
Interviews
The PAG, the Lovers and painting now: Akbar Padamsee goes down memory lane with Abhay Sardesai 47
Partition trauma and the pleasures of drawing: Krishen Khanna discusses his latest works with Yashodhara Dalmia 52
Ace abstractionist Ram Kumar goes back in time to Paris and Benares with Vinod Bhardwaj 58
Special report
Through the chemistry between colour and figure, humour and pathos, Bhupen Khakhar's paintings create a unique expressive language. Tasneem Zakaria Mehta visits his retrospective at London's Tate Modern 62
International review
Iranian-American artist Tala Madani's infantile and aggressive figures stand for power and evil but also for shame and victimhood, points out Zeenat Nagree 76
Reviews
Ravikumar Kashi's sculptures and installations carry forward a versatile practice that spans 25 years, states Jaideep Sen 78
Tara Kelton and Suchender P. address a variety of telling emblems in a joint show in Bengaluru, finds Jaideep Sen 80
Lajja Shah is moved by Nityan Unnikrishnan's dystopian landscapes.
Seher Shah's works weigh the temporariness of the built form with and against its insistent forcefulness. Kamayani Sharma reflects on the contest.
KM Madhusudhanan investigates colonial brutality and rearranges the historical archive in the Penal Colony, notes Kamayani Sharma.
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Biomorphic forms and geospatial shapes in Manisha Parekh's and Naiza Khan's works are indicators of corporeal threats and social erasure, reveals Shweta Upadhyay 86
Bhuvanesh Gowda recycles wood to create vital sculptures imbued with primeval echoes, observes Nivedita Magar 88
Listings 90
Vol.XXI ,Issue II,Quarter II,2017
Prelude 18
Contributors
Editorial
Contents
Kaleidoscope 24
Special reports
Abhay Sardesai responds critically to the 3rd Kochi-Muziris Biennale. 28
There is water, water everywhere at Sharjah Biennial 13 but the show does not sink, says Zehra Jumabhoy. 36
Shweta Upadhyay shares her impressions about the booths and the projects at the India Art Fair, New Delhi. 40
From a circusy Tempest to young art' in the subcontinent, Samira Sheth finds The Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa stringing together a wide variety of events. 43
The Pune Biennale's insertion of art in public spaces is uneven but largely successful, notes Nivedita Magar. 46
Reviews
Gieve Patel's Footboard Rider has been excluded from the ride of good life but is still reckless and confident, finds Tasneem Mehta. 56
Stretched Terrains at the KNMA variously explores the histories of modernism in India, notes Kamayani Sharma. 59
Jitish Kallat's retrospective at the NGMA presents the variety in his work with care and imagination, declare^ Girish Shahane 64
Sonia Khurana inhabits several liminal zones. Imran Ali Khan discusses how. 67
Rekha Rodwittiya's women fix the viewer in an unwavering stare and assume centre-stage on their j own terms, points out Gita Chadha. 70
The Open Hand is not very open after all, claims Meera Menezes. 72
Avinash Veeraraghavan digs deep into the subterranean zones of human consciousness, finds Jaideep Sen.74
Anuj Daga sees possibilities in Goutam Ghosh's clouded erasures, tangled doodles and scratched tally marks. 76
Kausik Mukhopadhyay's electrical and mechanical assemblages throw light on the lives and after-live people and objects, suggests Chaitanya Sambrani.78
From drying clothes to wandering around the beadj Princess Pea presents her life as a visual diary, discovers Lajja Shah. 80
Tanmoy Samanta employs banal objects to put together surreal 'portraits', avers Lajja Shah.82
Shweta Upadhyay finds Sujith SN's phantsmal landscapes enchanting as well as disconcerting.84
Latika Gupta responds to Benitha Perciyal's religious and secular icons. 86
Partial photographs in dialogue with the world at large: Suryanandini Narain checks out the works of four artists.88
A Japanese script inspires Manisha Parekh to plot new abstracts, reveals Anuj Daga.90
REPORT : Nandini Bhaskaran gets gallerist Abhay Maskara to look back and see ahead. 92
First person :Gallerist and curator Arshiya Lokhandwala discusses the two editions of Lakeeren and what comes next.95
Special report : 75 years of Urmila Kanoria: Niyatee Shinde visits the doyenne's Centre in Ahmedabad for a grand event.96
Listings 99
Vol.XXI ,Issue III,Quarter III,Sep.2017
Prelude 18
Contributors 24
Editorial 25
Contents 26
Artwatch 28
Mosaic 29
Conversations
Holding dead bodies, I learnt my lessons in anatomy..." Krishna Reddy tells by Sumesh Sharma 35
Mentors, methods and magical experiences: Laxman Shreshtha charts his journey from figurative to abstract art in a chat with Nivedita Magar 42
Feminist theory and Political art: Navjot Altaf shares with Sasha Altaf her continued engagement with social issues 47
A bar in a library this is just one of the things Anita Dube is thinking of while planning the next edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. She shares her vision with Meera Menezes 52
Sages, tigers and baby Krishnas : Deepak Shinde speaks about his image world to Abhay Sardesai 56
Desmond Lazaro discusses Salman Rushdie, Nainsukh and the glory of the colour blue with Shweta Upadhyay 60
From painting to kinetic sculptures : Sunil Gawde talks about his fascination for motion and movement with Lajja Shah 65
Reviews
Four photographers and their aloquenr monochromes : Amrita Gupta Singh moves between Nasreen Mohamedi, Jyoti Bhatt, Bhupendra Karia and William Gedney 80
Premjish Achari finds artworks strategically linked in a Hangar at the KNMA 84
Adip Dutta's exploration of urban dystopia is haunting and disturbing, reveals Rita Datta 86
What is the space an archive occupies, asks Anuj Daga, as he responds to Samit Das' works 88
Anuja Ghosalkar's LadyAnandi explores family lore, gender, theatre and the idea of an unfinished past. Arpita Bajpeyi responds 90
Bharat Sikka's photographs capture Kashmir and its many contrary moods, finds Kamayani Sharma 92
Boo Reviev
Ebrahim Alkazi has an iconic presence in the history of modern art and theatre in India. Meera Menezes leafs through a book that offers an appraisal of his rich contribution 95
Listings 99
Vol.XXI ,Issue IV,Quarter IV,Dec.2017
Prelude 18
Contributors 20
Editorial 21
Contents 22
Artwatch 24
Mosaic 25
Lead features
From addressing social exigencies to giving ageing buildings a facelift, street art in New Delhi is fast becoming part of mainstream visual culture, suggests Kamayani Sharma. 30
What has happened to street art in Kolkata? Anirudh Chari searches longingly for the intense and provocative imagery from decades ago. 40
46/ From embellishing infrastructural installations to framing social commentary, wall art in Bengaluru performs a variety of roles, says Joy Sen.46
Panel discussion
Hanif Kureshi, Himanshu S, Sameer Kulavoor, Leandre D' Souza, Shweta Upadhyay and Abhay Sardesai meet on a busy street in Mumbai and read the writing on the wall. 52
Photo essay
Walls have ears. Streets have tongues. Gopal MS keeps his eyes open.64
Letter From Pakistan
Vignettes of daily life and official imagery rub with artists' causes. Quddus Mirza goes down the in Lahore and Karachi. 80
International review
A building put together using banned books, a made out of reindeer skulls and a shamiana food are some of the places Tasneem Zakaria at as she travels between Kassel and Athens to with the documenta 14. 82
Review
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: Atul Dodiya's women clamour for attention. Meera Menezes checks them out. 88
Artists from all over the world have enriched Germany's artscape. Artspace Germany presents a progressive take on trans-national art, suggests Joy Sen. 90
Existential dilemmas that confront humanity: Premjish Achari dives into C. Douglas' world. 92
Sohrab Hura's photo-project Sweet Life traces the progress and impact of his mother's schizophrenia in disruptively immersive ways, says Aveek Sen. 94
Zeenat Nagree finds Birender Yadav exploring the precarious lives of labourers, farmers and migrants. 97
Jaideep Mehrotra uses molten metal and paint to build sculptural presences on two-dimensional canvases. Sonali Bhagchandani responds. 98
Report Meera Menezes is all ears as curators come together to discuss their practices at the Experimenter Hub. 99
Listings 101
Vol.22,No.1, Quarter 1,2018
Prelude 18
Contributors 20
Editorial 21
Contents 22
Artwatch 24
Mosaic 25
Special Reports
The fourth edition of the Dhaka Art Summit addresses migration and dispossession as defining contemporary experiences. Ku chi Dasgupta predicts that it will place Bangladesh as a key player on the map of the global art world . 28
Shweta Upadhyay walks through the 10th edition of the India Art Fair in New Delhi and throws light on some of the engaging works on display. 32
The Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa offers a fine mix of installations, performances and curated experiences. Samira Sheth hops between venues 35
Reports
Architects, urbanists, designers and artists react to Charles Correa in Jaipur and respond to the question , When is Space? Mila Samdub tells us how. 38
Massive carved wings rub shoulders with a giant kerosene stove at the new Sculpture Park in Nahargarh , Jaipur. Meera Menezes can't resist taking a selfie. 41
International review/Interview
A creative investigation of Partition traumas, psychoanalytic thought, feminist consciousness and lens­ based art forms is part of Nalini Malani's multi-aspected oeuvre, finds Rhana Devenport at her retrospective at the Pompidou .45
Cogitation The labouring worker and other victims of history are at the centre of his loaded painterly universe . Roshan Shahani re-introduces Altaf Mohamedi. 60
Reviews
Discarded material turns decorative in Piraji Sagara’s mixed media works. Have are-look, urges Katherine by Anne Harper. 64
Insitutions and symbols are addressed and redressed by Riyas Komu, finds Mila Samdub. 66
Abhay Sardesai is moved by Vivan Sundaram's layered retrospective at the KNMA .69
Sakti Burman's part-autobiographical and part allegorical paintings draw Lajja Shah into their universe 75
Abir Karmakar's home is a chronicle of a family’s journey, declares by Girish Shahane. 77
Anju Dodiya's theatre of crisis haunts by Ella Datta 80
Mithu Sen's 'museum' uncovers the complex links between art and life as well as art and the market observes by Gita Chadha.83
Rajendar Tiku explores the idea of Kashmir and the sorry state of the craftsperson in today's world in his sculptures, reveals Shruthi Issac.86
The gushing tide, the pool of evaporating water and the morphing cloud: Meera Menezes finds Alwar Balasubramaniam probing sensitively the rhythm s of nature.88
Words anchor, words repair and words battle trauma in South African artist Sue Williamson's photographs and videos , informs by Meera Menezes.90
Amshu Chukki's Tour of the Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad and the Montreal Biodome reveals the faultlines between location and dislocation, spaces and non-spaces, discovers by K. Sridhar.92
At the intersection of photography and sculpture,artworks speak to ideas of ephemerality, abandonment and degradation. Daisy Bopanna visits a joint show by Asim Waqif and Yamini Nayar. 94
The music composer Anoushka Shankar as a demure Vasantasena and the actress Aditi Rao Hydari as A Mysore Lady Near the Well- Rohit Chawla's photographs recreate iconic paintings, reveals by Joy Sen. 96
Rithika Merchant responds to the refugee crisis and Youdhisthir Maharjan investigates the afterlife of words. Azra Bhagat offers a view from the gallery.98
Artists grapple with the Partition and its overwhelming presence in our lives in Part Narratives, observes by Juhi Rituparna . 99
A sliced walnut trunk with a mask, a boiler suit hanging over sanded buckets and resin-pressed men's vests push the boundaries of sculpture as practic e, avers Anuj Daga at Gyan Panchal 's show. 100
The family, the superhero, ritual and romance: Retain Patel's videos explore these formations with verve, observes by Anuj Daga. 102
Book reviews
Priya Maholay-Jaradi 's books on art cultures in Baroda carry forward the inquiry initiated by Gulammohammed Sheikh more than twenty years back, claims by Sandhya Bordewekar. 103
Beauty as an object, a path, a moment and an experience. In conversation with creative people from various fields, Shakti Maira's The Promise of Beauty & Why it Matters finds that it is a claim and a responsibility, says by Gautam Bhatia. 106
Listings 108
Vol.22,No.2, Quarter 2,August 2018
Prelude 18
Contributors 20
Editorial 21
Contents 22
Artwatch 24
Mosaic 25
Curation projects
Mortimer Chatterjee and Tara Lal reconstruct the text by a 19th century art collector about a mysterious community living in ancient India 28
Sahej Rahal and Pallavi Paul make us witness the passage of time through visual and textual accounts of geological changes, historical moments and personal stories.36
Tasneem Zakaria Mehta revives the memory of past shows held at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum.41
Zasha Colah puts together a show in which artists write their art. 46
Bodies that resist, bodies that push boundaries: five female artists imagine different visions of occupation in Zeenat Nagree 's show. 51
From Alexander Calder to S. H. Raza, Hemant Morparia puns on works by artists to depict the quirks of human behavior.56
Letter from Pakistan
Quddus Mirza writes from the first Lahore Biennale. 70
Reviews
Factories, swimming pools and housing colonies carry intimations about our transforming lives, reveals Imran Ali Khan as he steps out ofNataraj Sharma's Swimmer's Manual. 76
The sea around Mumbai offers Meera Devidayal clues to explore life in the metro. Lajja Shah checks out the show. 78
Tanya Goel's canvases are as much a study in the ordering principle of the grid as they are in the entropy cities, suggests Meera Menezes .80
Can the body offer an alternate way of writing history that lies outside the realm of textual narratives, asks Meera Menezes after visiting a group show in Delhi.82
Karl Marx, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Edmund Burke and Droboniyo meet in Abhishek Hazra's Tippani Room, notes Premjish Achari . 84
Are Shakuntala Kulkarni's women with their cane armour and ornaments the new Amazons? Anuj Daga observes their march.86
Ratna Gupta explores growth and decay in her new work. Anuj Daga responds critically.87
Gauri Gill's photographs explore identities at levels, hidden and revealed, says Kamayani Sharma.88
Majnun meets Donald Trump in a show that gives a contemporary twist to miniature paintings, notes Latika Gupta.91
Contemplative animals, elemental settings and close encounters between people, bring alive Soumya Sankar Bose's brooding world, reveals Anirudh Chari.94
Sanjeev and Vaishali's silk on silk artworks mark the devastations of the anthropocene, points out Azra Bhagat.96
Lalitha Lajmi's characters play chess with death in a Bergmanesque show, points out Sonali Bhagchandani .97
Rashmimala holds a Colloquy with Garcia de Orta. Sandhya Bordewekar enters the world of weeds and seeds.98
Listings 100
Vol.22,No.3,Quarter 3,2018
Prelude 18
Contributors 20
Editorial 21
Contents 22
Comment 24
Gita Chadha offers a context for #MeToo in the art world.
Mosaic 25
Lead essay
Photography in India is breaking new ground. Shweta Upadhyay offers a candid close-up. 26
Lead features
The Calcutta street photographer is a combination of the archivist, the voyeur and the emissary, maintains by Anirudh Chari.40
Tejal Pandey browses through the impressive archive of T. S. Satyan's photographs put online by Bengaluru's Museum of Art and Photography.44
Interviews
From Book Objects to Instagram to #MeToo, Dayanita Singh shares her views about the future of photography with Abhay Sardesai . 47
The photograph as a shuttle back in time: Anusha Yadav discusses the Indian Memory Project with Sonali Bhagchandani .50
Profile
From the rugged terrain of Kashmir to intense moments home, Sohrab Hura's images travel between photo -books, short films, sound experiments and installations . Krita B.introduces the man everyone is talking about.52
Letter from Pakistan
Quddus Mirza provides a brief survey of the photography scene in Pakistan. 56
Photo essay
Mayank Austen Soofi captures Delhi daily, obsessively, kaleidoscopically. 60
Bouquet
Fabien Charuau, Chirodeep Chaudhuri, Srinivas Philippe Calia and Harikrishna Katragadda present their projects. 65
International review
Ranjani Shettar's Seven ponds and a few raindrops at the Met in New York extends the limits of her floating observes J. Jagannath .80
Reviews
The 1st Indian Ceramics Triennale in Jaipur promises to break new ground, boding well for the burgeoning notes Mario D'Souza. 82
Mario D'Souza visits satellite shows in Jaipur that explore ceramic art with commitment and verve. 87
Animals and farms, cultivators and labourers put issues of local ecology at the centre of Arunkumar HG's new works, says Meera Menezes. 88
Portraits of people in contemplative moments and lush futurescapes introduce the viewer to V. N. Jyothi Basu's older works, discovers Lajja Shah. 90
Family and community life in Kerala, presented by Ratheesh T. in his new oils, make Anuj Daga question his viewerly status. 92
Coal mines and the various contrary spaces they occupy are captured by Ronny Sen in an impressive show, notes Anuj Daga. 94
Parvathi Nayar uses water as a metaphor to critically explore the Anthropocene, discovers Sanjana Srinivasan. 97
Mila Samdub visits a show that explores experiences and environments that divide people . 98
Modernist architecture and its complex contract with our collective imaginations : Mila Samdub connects the dots between Paribartana Mohanty's show, Nityan Unnikrishnan's paintings and the documentary Nostalgia for the Future. 100
Is it the shared insistence on careful labour that links Sathi Guin and Srinivasa Prasad? Marta Jakimowicz visits Two Projects. 103
Places moult as night falls and people leave, finds Marta Jakimowicz , as she visits a show ofDhruv Malhotra's photographs. 104
The Vishwamitri in a corporate corridor : Sandhya Bordewekar traces the movement of Mrugen Rathod's sculpture. 106
Listings 107
Vol.22,Issue 4, Quarter 4,2018
Prelude
Contributors 24
Editorial 25
Contents 26
Mosaic 28
Playing favourites
The one-legged bull in Manjit Bawa's painting draws from the Mahabharat and civil strife in the 1980s, says Geeti Sen. 30
Jose Pereira's Celebration ofFood presents the Goan way of life, notes Vivek Menezes . 32
Giona Mottura's photograph of a landscape with an abandoned train track gets Rahul Srivastava and Matias Echanove talking about decay and renewal.34
Udita Upadhyaya explores the private body in public space. Zeenat Nagree observes. 36
Shilpa Phadke responds to Durga Gawde's gender fluid performance.38
How should a photograph affect you? Faiz Ullah looks at a scathing image by Sudharak Olwe. 40
The figure in F. N. Souza's drawing is emphatically nude, not naked, says Jugneeta Sudan.42
Cecil Pinto spins a story around a Mario Miranda mural. 44
The lotii in Mani Kaul's Siddheshwari frames a lament for the human condition, reveals Amrit Gangar.46
Meera Menezes detects a meditative presence in V. S. Gaitonde's Painting in White.48
Zehra Jumabhoy joins Mohan Samant's cool Midnight Fishing Party .50
Ships and memories float together in Ranjit Kandalgaonkar 's photographs. 52
A stamp spurs Tenzin Tsundue to talk about the Tibetan struggle for freedom and dignity.54
Quddus Mirza follows Zahoor ul Akhlaq as he revisits Shah Jahan's sons on horseback. 56
Reviews
Shweta Upadhyay is overcome by Mohan Samant’s spectral presences. 68
Benign animals turn sinister in Amit Ambalal works. Sandhya Bordewekar spots a new practice.71
Sandhya Bordewekar checks how Waswo's curatorial project maps the growth miniature.74
Legends and myths; migration and dispossession Nilima Sheikh's scrolls speak of Armin points out Meera Menezes .78
Navin Thomas' sculptures explore the acoustic architecture of a dystopian world, reveals by Adwait Singh 80
Loss, memory, death: Abhay Sardesai is moved by Yardena Kurulkar's new works.83
The greed and loneliness of the Scaria presents the rise and fall of the Mario D'Souza .87
90/ Rohini Devasher's art is head ed understanding science in the context claims K. Sridhar.
Subjective memory, history and the scars of the past: Premjish Achari visits Atul Bhalla's Anhedonic Dehiscence.92
Manish Nai uses secondhand books, corrugated cardboard sheets and metal, among other things, to create sculptural works that critique a culture of excess, notes Lajja Shah.94
Clare Arni's photographs explore media-hyped gangster culture, reveals Marta Jakimowicz .96
Sophia Brueckner and Tara Kelton probe the intense encounter between computers, human beings and corporations, discovers Marta Jakimowicz .97
Sonali Bhagchandani finds Wolfgang Tillmans rubbing shoulders with Andreas Eriksson and Matthias Bitzer in Mumbai. 98
Language and design have an eyeball to eyeball in Muzzumil
Ruheel's Baaton Se Baat Nikalti Hai, says Sanjana Srinivasan.99
Homage 100
"The conscience blazed bright, no matter how elusive the revolution." Chaitanya Sambrani writes about artist, activist and educator Tushar Joag (1966-2018).
Listings 104
Vol.23,Issue I,Quarter 1,2019
Prelude 18
Contributors 20
Editorial 21
Contents 22
Mosaic 24
Special reports
Art as a way of addressing civilisational unease : the fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale speaks to our difficult times, discovers Abhay Sardesai. 27
From Olafur Eliasson to Ai Weiwei and from Manisha Gera Baswani to Mithu Sen, Meera Menezes picks the works that stand out at the 11th edition of the India Art Fair. 36
The image and its various competing incarnations are at the centre of the Chennai Photo Biennale, suggests Mario D'Souza. 40
Samira Sheth visits the kaleidoscopic Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa. 45
Reviews
Pepe Karmel visits Bombay's Progressive Group at a definitive show in New York. 48
Arpita Singh traces the contours of violence in her extraordinary works. On the retrospective at the KNMA, Geeti Sen looks at 60 years of her practice.52
Roshan Shahani traces the arc of Navjot Altaf’s growth as an 'investigator-interventionist' at a retrospective at the NGMA, Mumbai. 56
Can art help re-invent a city and its future? Zeenat Nagree checks out the first Bhubaneshwar Art Trail 60
Gandhi and Mao. Sandhya Bordewekar looks at how Walter Bosshard has captured these epoch-makers at shows in Ahmedabad and Mumbai.72
A multi-venue retrospective in Chennai presents S.G. Vasudev as an explorer of the fluent line, avers Sanjana Srinivasan. 74
Images of an ethnographic field trip rub shoulders with photo-performances in Pushpamala N's show Kamayani Sharma wonders whether parody is an exhausted trope. 76
Dead snakes, rotting fruit and an overgrown garden : Zeenat Nagree sees what Simryn Gill makes of it all 79
Dia Mehhta Bhupal depicts three-dimensional interior environments that are transitional in nature,notes Lajja Shah.82
Astha Butail goes on a pilgrimage to explore connections between oral traditions in three Asian countries, discovers Premjish Achari .84
Manjunath Kamath's Era Elsewhere looks at gaps in history, says Mario D'Souza .86
The Paris Commune ofl871 and George Orwell's critique of the establishment are part of Raqs' Provisions. Anuj Daga asks himself some searching questions. 88
Shweta Upadhyay checks out the contrary features of Sahej Rahal's monsters.90
Moyra Davey's films and photographs draw from memoirs, revisit cultural pasts, and explore nostalgia and anxiety with poetic power, says Anirudh Chari.92
Ella Datta considers how Sunil Padwal uses discarded items to create evocative exhibits.94
Witnessing, as an idea and act, is opened up at the KHOJ show. Adwait Singh leads a discussion .96
An art exhibition 'mounted' at a house instead of in a gallery provokes visitors to contemplate new modes of viewing, collecting and appreciating art, observes Adwait Singh. 98
Connecting Threads features 17 artists working with textiles at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum. Neha Mitra weaves a response.100
International review
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's light and sound show makes Sathya Saran check her pulse.102
Listings 104
Vol.23,Issue II,Quarter 2,August 2019
Prelude 18
Contributors 20
Editorial 21
Contents 22
Mosaic 24
Special review 27
Tasneem Zakaria Mehta reflects on the themes, works and displays at the 58th Venice Art Biennale.
Profiles
Citizens, migrants and Gandhiji's career as a national icon: Mario D'Souza traces Ashim Purkayastha's journey of images and ideas.34
Gandhiji's padukas help us pick our way through a minefield of hatred and prejudice. Premjish Achari eases into G. R. Iranna's shoes. 39
Rummana Hussain addresses brutalized consciences. Gayatri Juneja considers some of her powerful works.44
Interviews
Abhay Sardesai meets Gandhiji in Ghatkopar with Atul Dodiya. 47
What went behind the Indian Pavilion at the Art Biennale? Meera Menezes finds out with curator Roobina Karode. 52
Reviews
Mario D'Souza watches Vivan Sundaramre various interrupted landscapes. 62
From climate change to the rising tide of intolerance Ranbir Kaleka's work digs deep into a dystopian world,notes Meera Menezes. 65
Paula Sengupta re-imagines colonial chintz as Nandini Bagla Chirimar re-assembles a past of memorabilia, finds Geeti Sen. 68
Unstable figures and fragmented architectures: Anirudh Chari observes Praneet Soi exploring the associations. 71
Rathin Barman's Thinking Forest carries ambiguous living spaces, states Anirudh Chari.74
The anatomy of chaos: Indranjan Banerjee witnesses Julien Segard exploring destruction and its designs.76
Shweta Upadhyay steps into Sarnath Banerjee's Bhoot Bangia at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum. 78
Shweta Upadhyay sees Nityan Unnikrishnan probing acts of empty consumption in exhausted landscapes. 80
Sumakshi Singh weaves threads delicately to trace the weighty memories of places, reveals Lajja Shah. 82
The make-believe realism achieved through a staging of characters tames the truth as well as the lie, says Anuj Daga of Vasantha Yogananthan's photographs. 84
Vanita Gupta's scenographic works extend the arc of the material world, suggests Roshan Shahani. 86
Kamayani Sharma visits a group show that looks at how the non-figurative has been expressed in Indian modern and contemporary art. 88
One colour, many artists: Sanqhya Bordewekar witnesses the magic of indigo at Ahmedabad's Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum. 90
Georgina Maddox finds Meher Afroz Vahid's works exploring death, loss and transience. 93
Homage 94
R. Siva Kumar remembers the artist, teacher, curator and cultural anthropologist Haku Shah (1934 - 2019).
Special report 98
Sonali Bhagchandani visits auction houses.
Listings 101
Vol.23,Issue III,Quarter 3, December 2019
Prelude 22
Contributors 24
Editorial 25
Contents 26
Mosaic 28
Lead features
Mario D'Souz a looks at how contemporary artists have re-interpreted images and techniques culled from textile-based practices. 32
Jangarh Singh Shyam straddles both the crafts and the arts. Amit Kumar Jain re-introduces the critical figure. 40
Crafts-based practices and the Baroda artist : Sandhya Bordewekar throws light on five genre-hoppers. 46
Profile 50
Monika Correa and her inspired experiments with threads: Priyansha Jain examines the master weaver's forms and colours.
Special reports 54
The Weavers' Service Centre, set up in 1956, was a bridge between artists and craftspersons . Meera Menezes revisits the halcyon days of the institution.
Heirloom Naga is the winner of the JSW Prize for Contemporary Craftsmanship 2019. Aradhana Nagpal sifts through the shortlist to choose some of the finest initiatives in the country. 59
Interview 64
Designer, scenographer and cultural czar Rajeev Sethi looks back at his work with Abhay Sardesai.
Conversation 69
Dastkar's Laila Tyabji traces her journey as a designer and activist with Geeti Sen.
Reviews
Illness as Metaphor: Shweta Upadhyay looks at Anjum Singh's new work. 73
Calmness but also an unsettling silence: Meher Pestonji probes V. S. Gaitonde's calligraphic forms and colour zones. 76
Rana Begum draws out gripping equations between colour, light and form, discovers Anuj Daga. 78
What does it mean to speak up? And be heard? Anuj Daga is all ears at a group show. 80
Histories inflect each other in Ayesha Singh's It was Never Concrete, says Adwait Singh.82
Mob lynchings, yogic contortions and Gandhij Dandi Yatra are part of Riyas Komu's Out of Place, finds Marta Jakimowicz .84
Aaditi Joshi's recycled polypropylene works summon up a dystopic future, notes Neha Mitra .86
Geeti Sen visits a show featuring mohras, rumals and the sacred art of the Himachal region . 88
Benitha Perciyal's sculptures take a turn towards abstraction, observes Lajja Shah. 89
Report 92
Chintan Girish Modi participates in a conference that explores the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972.
Initiative 94
TIFA wants to re-vitalise the cultural ecosystem of Pune, notes
Nishita Zachariah .
Listings 97
Vol.23,Issue 4, Quarter 4,Jan.2020
Prelude 18
Contributors 20
Editorial 21
Contents 22
Mosaic 24
Lead features
Abhay Sardesai looks at how artists preside over the contest between word and image. 28
Vaishnavi Ramanathan traces how artists from Chennai have assimilated scriptorial and textual influences in their works. 34
Text as a visual element is about subverting conventions, hierarchies and rules, says Anirudh Chari and discusses the success and failure of artists from Bengal. 42
Shubhalakshmi Shukla dwells on the many ways in which Indian artists have used text to complicate artworks. 48
Graphic details 54
Sarnath Banerjee 's characters live to eat. And how.
Vishwajyoti Ghosh puts moralizing texts to irreverent use. 57
First person 59
Mortimer Chatterjee introduces his new find - Rustom Siodia (1881-1946).
Special reports
Being a curator can sometimes feel like being a warrior, avers Chintan Girish Modi, after listening to the discussions at the Experimenter Curators' Hub in Kolkata. 62
From resisting patriarchy to unmasking hypocrisy, video remains a potent medium, maintains Anuj Daga as he visits the VAICA festival in Mumbai and Delhi. 64
Essay 67
Bhrigupati Singh delicately considers the shared
resonances between Martand Khosla's 1:2500 and Jessica Stockholder's Stuff Matters.
Reviews
Dhruva Mistry's show features sculptures made over the last twenty years, discovers Chintan Girish Modi . 72
Strength and sensuousness, fertility and fellowship, are embodied in Prodosh Das Gupta's bronze sculptures, observes Chintan Girish Modi . 74
Adwait Singh explores propostions of intimacy and domesticity, desire and bonding, in Salman Toor's delicate scenes of queer life. 76
Reena Saini Kallat engages with issues related to the partitionof land and the polarisation of people, notes K. Sridhar. 79
Pranati Panda weaves interior landscapes of the human body, claims Premjish Achari . 82
A Journey at NGMA, Bengaluru, showcases the inner dynamism ofPrabuddha Dasgupta's portraits and landscapes, says Marta Jakimowicz . 84
The figure of man overwhelmed by a fragmentary
Urban scape: Marta Jakimowicz discusses George Martin P. J.'s new works. 86
Sandhya Bordewekar vists ceramic artist Khanjan Dalal and abstractionist Radhika Hamlai's joint show in Ahmedabad . 88
Listings 90
Contents
Art India : the art news magazine of India
Vol.24,Issue 3,Quaretr 3,2021
Prelude 18
Contributors 20
Editorial 21
Contents 22
Mosaic 24
Special feature: back to nature
"The landscapes within us reach out to the naturescapes around us," declares Atul Dodiya as he dwells on his new suite of 270 watercolours 26
Jayashree Chakravarty seeks to alert the world to the ecological dangers that lie ahead 28
Which river flows through us? Atul Bhalla addresses guilt and its ruptures 30
Rashid Rana contemplates a mound of rubbish in the 2lst century even as Caspar David Friedrich's wanderer surveys a sea of fog in the 19th century 32
Sudarshan Shetty dwells on the illusion of permanence even as he explores the relationship between fantasy and reality, the natural and the artificial 34
Sheba Chhachhi amplifies the sharp divide between nature and culture in The Water Diviner, says Roobina Karode 36
"We have terraformed to a grotesque degree;' claims Shubigi Rao as she sets up a confrontation between compostable forest material and an image of an early 13th century wunderkammer 38
Light and shadow invest Madhvi Subrahmanian's Forest with a shifting significance 40
Bharti Kher has been releasing a Virus since 2010 and hopes to do so till 2039 42
Ours is a multi-species universe not a human-centric one, insists Ravi Agarwal 46
Sardine-shaped skins of a musk melon and crushed migrants returning home: Aradhana Seth offers a telling metaphor 48
Ash to ash: Iranna GR conjures up the tree of life 50
Suhasini Kejriwal's anthropomorphized plants are surreal reflections on the equation between human beings and nature 52
Subodh Kerkar plants mussel shells in the sand to conjure up the shifting patterns of the ocean 54
Firecrackers and sweets that sprout after you sow and water them? Check out Shweta Bhattad's Gram Art, urges Sandhya Bordewekar 56
The mask in Vibha Galhotra's prescient work from 13 years ago represents the human will to adapt to ecological changes 58
Manisha Gera Baswani dreams of spreading wings and flying out into the night sky 60
''Just cradle my homology between the dead calf, my lover and the stone;' offers Neha Choksi 62
Sukhdev Rathod makes contact from the edge of a forest and explores the contradiction between urban and rural worlds 64
A sense of equilibrium between Nature and US is the real need of the hour, insists Manisha Parekh 66
Between the skies of the Southern Hemisphere and the depths of the Pacific Ocean, Rohini Devasher listens to the music of the spheres 68
From a mother's hard work to rituals of worship,Benitha Perciyal dwells on issues of being and nothingness 70
Knuckles and their knots, palms and their hollows, fingers and their bony linearities register their presence in the clay that Savia Mahajan kneads and fires 72
A desolate billboard in the middle of nowhere is David de Souza's metaphor for being abandoned in the wilderness 74
International review 76
The seventh edition of the Yokohama Triennale, curated by the Raqs Media Collective, explores art in the shadow of disaster, notes Arshiya Mansoor Lokhandwala
Reviews
Reena Saini Kallat looks at rivers as sites of contestation, finds Meera Menezes 80
Anusha Yadav's photographic portraits celebrate gender fluidity and explore identity positions, points out Lajja Shah 83
Sarika Mehta's Home consists of lockdown landscapes, informs Sandhya Bordewekar 86
Sameer Kulavoor observes people overwhelmed by a viral overload of images but he doesn't stop there, says Chintan Girish Modi 88
Neha Mitra visits three galleries in Delhi and Mumbai and writes about four group show 91
Mario D'Souza checks out a show that remembers Sisyphus in Goa and explores precarity as a condition of our lives 94
Reports
Lost languages, glacier funerals and haunting memories: the lO'h Experimenter Curators' Hub presents participants from its past editions. Mario D'Souza writes in 97
Sandhya Bordewekar sees Sarasija Subramanian and Astha Patel probing the rampant manipulation of nature around us 99
Book excerpt 102
Amitav Ghosh's Jungle Nama brings alive a gripping tale from the Sunderban. Salman Toor's drawings add to the magic 106
Photo feature Anjum Hasan captures the inner lives of built spaces in states of repair and ruin 110
Homage The body and the city, interiority and inortality: Meera Menezes fondly remembers Anjum Singh (1967-2020).
Listings 112
Vol.24,Issue 4,Quaretr 4,March 2021
Prelude 16
Contributors 18
Editorial 19
Contents 20
Mosaic 22
Public art 24
Patchwork quilts draped over buildings in Mumbai frame people's responses to the Covid pandemic, finds by Shweta Upadhyay.
Conversations
From collecting art with panache to starting a museum collaboratively, Dadiba Pundole shares his reflections with Abhay Sardesai on how the business of art has flourished during the pandemic.26
Even as he dwells on the changing relationship with artworks, Harsh Goenka talks to Abhay Sardesai about the moulting art world - its changing scope and shape.31
Special features
Protect museums, urges Tasneem Zakaria Mehta,as she gives a call to the art community to engage commitedly and decisively with the public sphere.36
The virtual model, on its own, without the actual interaction with art, is not desirable, insists Alka Pande. 38
We should employ our imaginations and energies towards a new culture of learning art that is also a new culture of learning itself, declares Riyas Komu. 40
A digital museum is a project of rapidly moving and changing parts, says Kamini Sawhney from the newly launched Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru. 42
Today's consumers of art are simply not as committed as the connoisseurs of the past, declares by Abhay Maskara. 45
The pandemic has ushered in a sense of slowness that is not all bad, claims Meera Menezes. 48
Vidya Shivadas discusses the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art's attempts at addressing art practices and recasting issues of education. 50
Re-visit the archives, urges Niyatee Shinde, to construct alternative narratives. 52
In Baroda, the verdict is out - the pandemic did more good than bad for the art industry, says Sandhya Bordewekar, as she talks to members of the city's art world. 54
Reviews
Two Delhi-based galleries show with one Kolkata based and one Mumbai-based gallery. Ella Datta writes from Bikaner House. 58
What do Bhupen Khakhar and Jogen Chowdhury have in common? A joint show tries to find out, discovers Chintan Girish Modi.64
Desire and melancholy, love and longing- Chameli Ramachandran's flowers carry rich intimations of life, says Premjish Achari. 66
Artists explore the colour red in a Mumbai show. Neha Mitra
checks out how. 68
Anirudh Chari listens to a visual conversation between Adip Dutta
and Meera Mukherjee in Kolkata. 70
The ambiguity of forms - on tiles, paper and board - allow Lubna
Chowdhary to pursue a new language of abstraction, claims Mario
D'Souza. 73
Divya Singh's mysterious oils suggest haunting presences,whispers Mario D'Souza. 76
The starkness of the imagery in Iranna GR's works speaks of the
contract between being and non-being, says Azra Bhagat. 78
Stories of desperate lives spill out in their unsettling avatars
through a mosaic of metaphors and montages in Sohrab Hura's show in
Kolkata, reveals Siddharth Sivakumar. 79
From The Boat with a Broken Rim, Lajja Shah travels through
Rithika Merchant's cautionary landscapes and halts at Shilo Shiv
Suleman's monument to eternal love. 82
Kickstarter's Perry Chen trawls through science, art and politics to
reveal deep and tangled codes, discovers Meera Menezes. 87
Essay 90
Adwait Singh draws parallels between millennial love and the changing
modalities of art consumption during the pandemic.
Initiative 94
HH Art Spaces in Goa has become the hub for performance art in the
country. Lina Vincent follows its story.
Book excerpt 100
Masood Hussain and Gabriel Rosenstock's Boatman! take these songs
from me are delicate intimations of loss and longing, ruin and repair.
Photo feature 105
A pinch of salt that shook the British Empire: Sandhya Bordewekar
time travels with Anuj Ambalal as he captures the sites and stations of
the epochal Dandi March.
Listings 110
Vol.25,Issue 1,Quaretr 1, July 2021
Prelude
Contributors 20
Editorial 21
Contents 22
Mosaic 24
Special features
A house impaled by a tree: Gigi Scaria dwells on the unstable present. 26
Jahangir Asgar Jani invokes shamans as intermediaries between divided worlds.28
Hands without a body and the body without a trace: Shaurya Kumar dwells on the dynamics of disintegration.30
This too shall pass, says Manjunath Karnath, as termites of despair attack installations of hope. 32
"It is mine to tear. And it is mine to collect again." Yardena Kurulkar addresses the body. 34
This is not just a pipe: Sarnath Banerjee offers a cautionary tale. 36
An empty frame has a full story to tell, suggests Aaditi Joshi. 38
A sense of foreboding descends on Pratap Morey under a Metro bridge in Mumbai. 40
Rita Datta dwells on Sahil Naik's reconnaissance of dams in Egypt and Goa. 42
Profile 44
The appeal of Ayesha Sultana's works lies in the inspiration drawn from both Western Modernism and Islamic Architecture, says Rita Datta.
Reviews
Ganesh Haloi's new minimalist works are both introspective and joyful, avers Anirudh Chari. 50
Topography and pedology, numbers and letters, come together in Manish Pushkale's new works to create abstract maps, finds Geeti Sen. 53
Black as a colour and the square as a geometric form: Meera Menezes responds to Parul Gupta's explorations. 56
Jasmine Shah Varma considers Boshudhara Mukherjee's tapestries as robust experiential worlds. 59
Zoya Siddiqui invites viewers to think about identity, faith, citizenship and the diaspora, says Chintan Girish Modi. 62
Eight ceramic artists address a changing world, finds Georgina Maddox. 64
Kristine Michael writes about ten artists and the nest as a loaded metaphor. 66
Sweety Joshi's burnt objects hold a cracked mirror to the devastation we witness, discovers Neha Mitra. 70
What comes apart when a house is pulled down? Neha Mitra looks at Anjana Mehra tackling this question. 72
Three London-based artists of South Asian origin explore queer intimacies and shared solidarities, finds Lajja Shah. 74
The self and the world: Shweta Upadhyay looks at introspections by Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai and Baaraan Ijlal. 77
The landscape in the time of the pandemic: U rshila Mehta discusses works by Diana Al-Hadid and Santiago Giralda. 80
Thirty printmakers push the limits of the medium in Baroda. Sandhya Bordewekar discusses what's on the plate. 82
Special report 85
Divine beings, fantastic creatures and scenes of everyday life: Sandhya Bordewekar throws light on the monumental Pithoro mural.
Showcase 88
Images from The Absent Year, the Asia Society portfolio of prints.
Memoryscape 92
"We are not only in flux, we are flux." Swati Chopra remembers Shakti Maira (1947-2021) and shares from his journals.
Obituary 96
Suresh Jayaram remembers the performance artist Bhuvanesh Kumar (1985-2021)
Listings 98
Vol.25,Issue 2,Quaretr 2, Nov.2021
Prelude 16
Contributors 18
Editorial 19
Contents 20
Mosaic 22
Special features
Nature assumes various moods - rapturous as well as catastrophic - maintains Paramjit Singh 24
The cycle of seasons in Sanskrit poetry inspires Saryu Doshi to draw from the ritu-chakra and the baramasa in miniature painting 26
Architecture should bridge landscapes within and without, avers Dean D'Cruz 30
Nityan Unnikrishnan reflects on Raymond Carver, growing older and the quiet place in the head where he does most of his work 32
The painted face is an index of mutability in Madhavi Gore's photo-performance 34
"My city's romance with the monsoons ended in 2005", claims Chirodeep Chaudhuri 36
Our bodies carry stories, scars, memories and other baggage within their submerged chambers, reveals Devika Sundar 38
The boatman sails through rough weather Parthiv Shah dwells on the loaded metaphor 40
Profile
Rita Datta traces Reba Hore's journey as activist, wife, artist 42
Conversations
Pheroza Godrej goes back in time with Abhay Sardesai and revisits the genesis of Cymroza Art Gallery 46
WinWin88 talks to Rosalyn D'Mello about selfreflexive encounters, collaborative meaning creation and the dynamics of surveillance 52
International reviews
Jitish Kallat and Reena Saini Kallat exhibit in Sweden Hans Carlsson pays a visit 57
Nauman Khalid discusses Patterns of the Past, a show in London featuring contemporary 'textile' artists from Pakistan 60
Reviews
You meet gods, goddesses, the harlequin and even Mahatma Gandhi in Sakti Burman's new works, exults Azra Bhagat 62
Satarupa Bhattacharya responds to Shobha Broota's contemplative abstracts 64
Mekhala Bahl's Shape of a Surface has Kamayani Sharma examining shapes and surfaces 66
Rm Palaniappan's works carry graphic, metaphoric and symbolic power, claims Anirudh Chari 68
Sachin George Sebastian captures the layers and textures of urban life, avers Premjish Achari 71
Areez Katki uses household cloth items to probe complex domestic, social and identitarian weaves, finds Adwait Singh 74
A show of four artists explores the uncanny as a constant feature
of life, says Arushi Vats 77
A sense of foreboding pervades Sujith S N 's works, points out
Meera Menezes 80
Closeness and companionship: Meera Menezes writes about a
show that explores relationships 82
Objects, documents and photographs offer a link between a
remembered past and the changing present Mario D'Souza checks out
the transience of meaning in Faiza Hasan's works 85
The metamorphosis of an actor and the transformation of a
goddess: Neha Mitra responds to Naveen Kishore's photo-filmic
documentation 88
Neha Mitra assesses Hardeep Pandhal and Jagdeep Raina's work
that holds a mirror to the experiences of migrants 90
The politics of representation and the practices of victimisation:
Pallavi Paul's works explore inter-layered contexts, maintains Pooja
Savansukha 92
50 years of Cymroza Art Gallery: Reema Gehi visits three shows 95
The wound in Soghra Khurasani's work is yet to heal, states Shweta Upadhyay 98
Mahesh Baliga's pandemic-inspired works reflect a sharp awareness of chance moments and strange meetings, says Chintan Girish Modi 100
Showcase
Sheetal Gattani chooses her favourite Mehlli Gobhai paintings 102
Book reviews
More than 150 recipes capture Sandhya Bordewekar's interest as she sits at the 1 Shanthiroad table and goes through its artists' cookbook 105
Jerry Pinto's Secret World ofMehlli Gobhai introduces the man and the artist to children Chintan Girish Modi reads on 108
Essay
There is no knowing if the NFT is the future of art, but there is no turning back, that's for certain, offers Arshiya Mansoor Lokhandwala 110
Listings 114
Vol.25,Issue 3, Quarter 3,2022
Prelude
Contributors 22
Editorial 23
Contents 24
Mosaic 26
Reviews
A giraffe wants to possess a peacock's plumage. Adip Dutta shares his view of Paula Sengupta's Porcelain Rose.28
Lac and its many avatars: Adwait Singh checks out how Hemali Bhuta explores the material's transformative 30
Pooja Savansukha finds Shezad Dawood exploring Cold War politics and Modernist architecture in Pakistan and Bangladesh in his Mumbai solo.33
Retain Patel captures the sometimes harsh and the sometimes comical experience of being British and Indian, states by Chintan Girish Modi.36
How is a body contained and what does it hold? Radhika Khimji raises critical questions, finds by Anirudh Chari.39
Piyali Sadhukhan trains her gaze at mechanisms of control enshrined in mythic narratives and religious practices, reveals Anirudh Chari.42
Bharti Kher expands her pantheon of wondrous beings in Strange Attractors, observes by Meera Menezes.44
Diwan-e-Aam in Delhi and Nakkar Khana in Bhopal are only two of the sites where layered pasts meet a dramatic present. Arushi Vats responds to Baaraan Ijlal's artworks and Moonis Ijlal's sculptures.48
Arushi Vats is enchanted by Kartik Sood's evocations of a dissolving self and intimations of lost time. 52
Arushi Vats follows Praneet Soi as he explores geographies of peace and unrest in Kashmir and Palestine. 56
Imran Ali Khan reveals how Jayasri Burman invokes the magnificent Ganga.58
Sharbendu De's masked protagonists with oxygen cylinders are citizens of a ravaged world, states by Meera Menezes. 60
Unexpected combinations lurk under the monochromatic surfaces of Sheetal Gattani's paintings, claims by Pooja Savansukha. 62
Rahul Kumar finds Antra Sinha and Khanjan Dalal working with clay in a variety of ways. 64
Sandhya Bordewekar assesses the art produced in memory of the ace ceramist Jyotsna Bhatt (1940-2020). 66
Bengaluru's hoardings and signboards find their way into Ravikumar Kashi's new paintings, notes Shailaja Tripathi. 68
1 state and 267 artists: Bose Krishnamachari puts on display Kerala's wealth of talent, declares Tanya Abraham. 70
Sosa Joseph captures village life in Kerala in all its contradictions,
suggests Zeenat Nagree. 74
By converting embodied life into countable units, Neerja Kothari
achieves a therapeutic inversion of states and markets that treat
humans as statistics, reveals Kamayani Sharma. 76
Tanmoy Samanta's homes are both abstract and concrete, insists
Azra Bhagat. 78
Special report 79
Sandhya Bordewekar charts the journeys of Lata Upadhyaya, Sajal
Sarkar and Sajeev Visweswaran - three Indian artists who have settled
abroad.
International review 82
The diasporic experience is at the centre of E/Merge, the inaugural
show at the National ludo-American Museum in Chicago. Pia Singh
assesses the works of the nine exhibiting artists.
Conversations
Varunika Saraf talks to Zeenat N agree about the art of bearing
witness to contemporary violence. 86
Corrugated patra is Mumbai's quintessential building medium,
says Manish Nai to Abhay Sardesai. 90
In memoriam 94
Chandrima S. Bhattacharya shares her reminiscences about Aveek Sen
(1965-2021), one of our finest art writers and educators.
Book review 97
Sandhya Bordewekar discusses how a tract featuring Anil Relia's
collection of Nathdwara paintings opens a 'portal to Shrinathji'.
Listings 100
Vol.25,Issue 4, Quarter 4, 2022
Prelude
Contents 26
Editorial 29
Album 30
25 years: A gallery of images to mark the procession of memories Looking back
Anupa Mehta recollects the challenges of putting together a magazine that addressed 'modern and contemporary Indian art' 38
Girish Shahane re-visits the time he steered the magazine to address an
impressive range of relevant issues 40
Nancy Adajania talks about her project of decolonising art history while heading the magazine 43
Tasneem Mehta talks of the excitement of being part of India's art scene as an advisor for some issues of the magazine 45
Gieve Patel remembers how an issue in 1997 with emerging artist Anju Dodiya on the cover got an overwhelming response 46
Shanta Gokhale offers a brief account of being an advisor when the magazine was in its infancy 47
Expert witness
How do leading artists, curators and gallerists look at ART India's role in the art ecosystem? Meera Menezes finds out 48
Institution builders, teachers and artists respond to ART India's journey Sandhya Bordewekar lends an ear 51
Lead features
Geeta Kapur looks carefully at Ranbir Kaleka's Man Threading Needle, a
video image projected onto a painting 54
Arjun Appadurai holds forth on the diverse ways in which objects circulate in our social worlds and acquire an 'aesthetic life' 64
Johan Pijnappel traces the evolution of video art in India and raises issues of critical import about the art genre 76
Nancy Adajania offers a context to understand the development of new mediatic realism 86
Curators are the avante-garde of our era, claims Girish Shahane 96
Ranjit Hoskote looks at some paintings that have defined India 106
Abhay Sardesai looks at how artists preside over the contest between word and image 112
Delhi is the Mecca of Performance Art in India claims Meera Menezes, as she introduces six of its critical proponents 122
Artists and artworks travel between locations and events across
cities and continents Zehra Jumabhoy checks out their 'moves' 128
In the beginning was clay Sandhya Bordewekar traces the growth of ceramic art practices in India 138
Photography in India is breaking new ground Shweta Upadhyay offers a candid close-up 144
Interviews
The legendary Charles Correa takes Prasad Shetty on a tour of one of his last projects - the majestic Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Portugal 150
The Pritzker-winning Balkrishna V Doshi, India's greatest living architect, shares his take on old and new cities, education and environment, life and death of buildings, with Pratyush Shankar 160
Vol.26,Issue 1, Quarter 1, August 2022
Prelude 18
Contributors 20
Editorial 21
Contents 22
Art affairs 24
Mosaic 26
Special features
How convincingly does the Whitney Biennial 2022 address the silencing of raging social and political questions in the USA? Rohini Iyengar assesses the 80th edition of the longest running survey of American art 30
As accusations of being anti-Semitic rock documenta 15, Tanya Abraham writes from Kassel about the redeeming features of the iconic show 36
The latest edition of the India Art Fair was mounted efficiently in Delhi, declares Aranya 42
Nauman Khalid writes about the striking works of Ali Kazim, the first South Asian artist to show at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 46
Reviews
The Last Man Standing offers an overview of the Last of the Progressives Yashodhara Dalmia visits the mini retrospective of the 97-year old Krishen Khanna 50
Figures, diagrams, scripts and slogan snatches come together in Pushpamala N 's copper plates to frame meditations on words and histories, observes Srajana Kaikini 54
Manish Gera Baswani's show after ten years explores fragility and illness, coping and healing, notes Meera Menezes 57
Meera Menezes finds herself between a choreographed mound of utensils and a gigantic brass vessel that rotates at Subodh Gupta's show 60
Diverse conceptions of the universe play off each other in Desmond Lazaro's new works Pooja Savansukha discusses how 63
Ranjani Shettar's garden is not a promised paradise It is a river that moves forward with sediments, it has a hybrid pulse, says Arushi Vats 66
Arushi Vats visits Raza Foundation's Yuva Sumbhava featuring works by 100 young artists 68
Neha Mitra finds Saju Kunhan exploring his family history in Palakkad 70
Shweta Upadhyay finds Seher Shah's city standing at the crossroads of social, political, spatial and architectural processes 72
Hands and gloves, rats and RT-PCR, diyas and disease: Kamayani Sharma responds to N S Harsha's life in the time of the pandemic 74
A stunt man and his invisibilised life; an actual location and a film set K Sridhar dwells on Amshu Chukki's exploration of interstitial worlds 76
Manjunath Kamath's sculptures are examples of fusion art, offers Chintan Girish Modi 78
An exhibition in Kolkata looking back at Indian art since independence could have gained from complex thematic interconnections, claims Anirudh Chari 80
Semaphores, songs, codes, cities, musical notations and the
Swastika: Anirudh Chari checks out how six artists draw from practice 82
As I Am maintains T Venkanna as Jasmine Shah Varma examines K P Reji's Cut Pieces and considers Smriti Dixit's Savage Flowers 84
Seventeen artists react with intensity and indignation to environmental devastation, discovers Lajja Shah at a show curated by Ravi Agarwal 89
A show of young artists at the Somaiya Vidyavihar University campus in the Eastern Mumbai suburb of Ghatkopar comes as a breath of fresh air, claims Azra Bhagat 92
The iconic medieval Florentine poet Dante and six artists from Italy and India: Georgina Maddox responds to Vita Nova 94
Lochan Upadhyay's work addresses marriage and money, displacement and dystopia, says Sandhya Bordewekar 96
Special report
The Asia Society India Centre has been hosting engaging talks and panels for more than fifteen years Jasmine Shah Varma writes about its art awards 98
Book review
Waswo X Waswo's Karkhana is as much a tribute to his many collaborators as to his several performing selves, suggests Sandhya Bordewekar 101
Listings 104
Vol.26,Issue 2, Quarter 2, December 2022
Prelude 18
Contributors 22
Editorial 23
Contents 24
Mosaic 26
Studio visit
AbuI Hisham is part of an art residency from 2021 to 2023 at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Tasneem Hatimbhai pays him a visit 27
Lead features
Pooja Savansukha unpacks the garden - as idea, space and metaphor – in contemporary Indian art 30
Sandhya Bordewekar presents three generations of sculptors responding to a transforming natural world 54
Special feature
Paradise as Garden: Kavita Singh discusses how this idea flowered in
medieval India 64
Photo feature
The gardens in India's Garden City: Suresh Jayaram takes us on a personal tour 72
Reviews
The heroic Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam's work insists on
recording uneasy political and social truths. Najrin Islam discusses his range 84
People and places during the lockdown: Lajja Shah finds Abir Karmakar
documenting the gloom and doom of the pandemic 92
Rajyashri Goody revisits the iconic Mahad Satyagraha and Priyanka
D'Souza recasts the alphabet, finds Arushi Vats 96
Water bodies, construction sites and cacti-laden landscapes in lndrapramit Roy's paintings are sites of eerie silence, threat and peril, claims Sandhya Bordewekar 102
Showcase
Umesh Kumar P. N.'s composite creatures have magical properties 106
Shoutout
New works by two artists showing in the new year 110
Listings 112