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Jan 20, 2010 |
The Peace Project
The Guild Art Gallery is currently presenting Ribbed Routes, a solo exhibition of recent works by G.R. Iranna at The Guild, Mumbai. Iranna’s works are philosophical reflections, revolving around the interactions and explorations of a man’s inner world with the existential issues of today. Art historian and an independent curator Deeksha Nath in her catalogue essay for the show discusses the artist’s works. |
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Dec 15, 2009 |
La Biennale Venezia:2009 Edition
The 53rd International Art Exhibition, titled Fare Mondi, directed by Daniel Birnbaum, took place from June 7 to November 22 2009 in Venice. Making Worlds, presented in the renewed Palazzo delle Esposizioni in the Giardini and in the Arsenale, was conceived as a single, large exhibition that articulated different themes woven into one whole. It was not divided into sections. Considering collectives, it comprised works by over 90 artists from all over the world and included many new works and on-site commissions in all disciplines. Lina Vincent Sunish reports. |
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Nov 05, 2009 |
Society of Contemporary Artists – An Epitome of the Modern Indian Art
Sarmistha Maiti analyses the story of The Society of Contemporary Artists’ formation and its existence for five decades in her lead essay. |
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Sept 05, 2009 |
Painting the Town Red
The just-concluded India Art Summit created a lot of sound and fury by showcasing Indian art to an international market. Giridhar Khasnis hopes its next edition will signify something more. |
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August 05, 2009 |
Homage to an Unreconized Episode of Indian Art
Prabhatmohan Bandyopadhya was one of the pioneer artists from Santiniketan. Museum gallery of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata recently exhibited Glimpses of Ancient India – Paintings by Prabhatmohan Bandyopadhyay (1904 – 1987) from April 13 to May 19, 2009. Sarmistha Maiti in her essay remembers the artist and his works. |
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April 05, 2009 |
Political Histories of Image Making:
Maping Land Maping body
Gallery Espace brings to Delhi, Drawing Trails; Work on Paper 2008-09 by Nilima Sheikh, a solo exhibition of 16 large works (Tempera on Sanganer Paper) and 15 book illustrations by veteran artist Nilima Sheikh. The exhibition comes after a gap of six years at Gallery Espace from April 17, 2009 to May 30, 2009... |
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February 20, 2009 |
Bakul Artfest-2009: An Experiment with Viewership/Audience and Public Participation.
Bakul Artfest-2009 in Bhubaneshwar was an experiment with viewership/audience and participation of public in contemporary art. The different activities organised by Bakul Foundation during the Artfest from January 15-28, 2009 were... |
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January 20, 2009 |
Public Art? Activating the Agoratic Condition
MOA is delighted to publish cultural theorist, art critic and independent curator, Nancy Adajania 's paper presented at the symposium linked to 48° C – the Public Art Ecology Festival, New Delhi, December 2008 |
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December 20, 2008 |
The Openness of Secrecy:
Soliloquy and Conversation in the Art of Surendran Nair
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, is currently exhibiting Surendran Nair's solo show titled Pernoctation & Early Drawings (December 12 – January 10, 2009). MOA reproduces eminent curator and art writer Ranjit Hoskote's essay from the catalogue for the show. |
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November 05, 2008 |
The Creative Journey of Paritosh Sen from
‘an Individual’ to ‘the Phenomenon’
Paritosh Sen (October 18, 1918 – October 22, 2008) was India's leading artist. He was a founder member of the Calcutta Group, an art movement established in 1942 that did much to introduce modernism into Indian art. Sarmistha Maiti pays a tribute to the great artist. |
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August 05, 2008 |
India Art Summit 2008 Opens in New Delhi
The much awaited India Art Summit 2008 was inaugurated at Pragati Maidan by tourism and culture minister, Ambika Soni, on August 22, 2008. Hundreds of people from the art fraternity thronged the stalls in the summit to see the display of about 500 pieces of art works including paintings, sculptures, video art, prints, photographs and installations.
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July 05, 2008 |
Ghost: The Lives°
For his first solo, UK exhibition, Bose Krishnamachari explores the psyche of the ‘average Mumbaikar' and the society in which he/she exists in a series of new, multi-disciplinary works made for Aicon London . The London exhibition, which starts on July 9, 2008, presents his wider practice, confirming him not only as an artist, but also a partaker and practitioner in the far wider cultural-social discourse. MOA is delighted to reproduce Radhika Desai 's essay for the show. |
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May 05, 2008 |
From the Personal to the Subjective
Gallery Espace will be presenting a landmark show by the artist E.H. Pushkin , one of the founding members of the Radical Painters and Sculptures Association of the late 1980s from May 13 to June 7, 2008. This is the first significant Delhi show by the artist and will feature 15 key works executed between 2007 and 2008 and never previously shown. Eminent art critic R. Nandakumar , in his catalogue essay, writes about Pushkin's recent works. |
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April 05, 2008 |
Oiled Dubai Art
Launched in 2007 as the DIFC Gulf Art Fair, this year, the fair for contemporary art in Dubai took place for the second time. Art Dubai hosted around 70 galleries from the Asia, North and South America, North Africa, Europe, Australia and Middle East . Eminent art writer and curator Sushma Bahl attended the fair which was held between March 19 to 22, 2008. A report. |
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March 20, 2008 |
Paresh Maity's 50th Adventure
Art Alive Gallery , New Delhi , will be presenting the inimitable palette of Paresh Maity – this time, the canvas is Kerala. Drawings, watercolours, oils ans mixed-media form part of Paresh's enchanting 50 th solo show accompanied with a book – An Enchanting Journey – Paresh Maity's Kerala . Paresh visited Kerala in 2007 on the invitation of Kerala Tourism Department to do his own visual interpretation of god's own country. He was accompanied by the well-known photographer Nemai Ghosh who captured the artist at work at various locations in Kerala. |
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March 05, 2008 |
ECA Auction – A Turning Point in the History of Indian Art!
On February 23, 2008, as the final hammer came down on the much-anticipated debut Indian Modern & Contemporary Art auction from Emami Chisel Art , one can safely say that there were no disappointments. One may also add that for over 200 art lovers and aficionados who thronged ECA's auction premises at Kolkata's Emami Towers to witness history in the making, it was an evening well worth the wait. Sarmistha Maiti talks to the brain behind the auction Vikram Bachhawat |
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February 05, 2008 |
RPG Academy of Art & Music presents its most ambitious exhibition till date....
Mumbai city is likely to experience a stunning, spatial experience at the Jehangir Art Gallery on February 8, 2008, as RPG Enterprises' opens with A MAZ ING, billed as art connoisseur Harsh Goenka's most innovative offering to the city as yet. |
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January 05, 2008 |
Face to face with Bertrand Cheuvreux
Sarmistha Maiti in conversation with Bertrand Cheuvreux of Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona during his recent visit to Kolkata. |
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December 05, 2007 |
Looking In/Looking Out
Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi is currently presenting a retrospective of Anupam Sud’s works of four decades (1960-2007) at the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. Dr Geeti Sen in her catalogue essay throws light in to the eminent print-makers works. |
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November 20, 2007 |
Distinguished Company
Pictorial Dialogues by Nayanaa Kanodia
Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi, is currently exhibiting recent works by Nayanaa Kanodia at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. Eminent curator and writer Ranjit Hoskote in his catalogue essay writes about the artist's recent works... |
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November 05 , 2007 |
Agony and Ecstasy
Prof. K.G. Subramanyan expresses his viewpoints on art education in the Hebbar Memorial Lecture he delivered at Bengaluru on March 17, 2007. |
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October 05 , 2007 |
Has Art to be Taught ?
Prof. K.G. Subramanyan expresses his viewpoints on art education in the Hebbar Memorial Lecture he delivered at Bengaluru on March 17, 2007. |
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Sept 05 , 2007 |
Rusholme Project Brings Art To Manchester's Curry Mile
Gleaming cookery utensils and abstract patterns capture the eye of visitors to Manchester's ‘Curry Mile' as part of a duo of art installations entitled The Rusholme Project.
Poppy Bowers reports… |
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August 05 , 2007 |
You Shall Remain Hidden…
Gallery Espace , New Delhi, will be showcasing You Shall Remain Hidden… , selected works on paper from 1970 to 2007 by Amitava from August 17 - September 13, 2007. Well known columnist and author Madhu Jain talks to the artist about his works spanning over three decades. |
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June 20 , 2007 |
History...Hysteria...Schizophrenia...
Partha Chatterjee
reflects his thoughts on
the recent incident of hooliganism in Baroda |
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May 5, 2007 |
Mapping the Invisible River: Contemporary Art in Goa
Ranjit Hoskote, in his curatorial note to the group show Aparanta, discusses the major issues that it addresses and redresses. |
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May 5, 2007 |
How the Goan Lost His Art
Vivek Menezes examines why the story of Goan art is intertwined with a strong streak of sheer cussedness. |
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April 5, 2007 |
Art and the Matter of Identity
In today’s world art is becoming more of a commodity and less of a communication, says
K. G. Subramanyan, delivering the 4th Ravishanker Raval Memorial Lecture at Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, Ahmedabad on February 24, 2007 |
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March 20, 2007 |
Rethinking Field Notes… Attempts Towards a Cross Representation
Rahul Bhattacharya's field notes from the Ramkinker Baij Centenary Seminar, Part II |
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March 5, 2007 |
Field notes from the Ramkinker Baij Centenary Seminar:
Thematics: Aspects of Modernity/ Public Nature of Art Practices |
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March 5, 2007
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Feb 20, 2007 |
No Longer Swaying Between Exhilaration And Lament.
Rahul Bhattacharya revisits the Benodebehari Mukherjee Retrospective Show, comes back burying older laments and with a fresh set of questions. |
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Feb 20, 2007 |
Light Room Intermittent°
Dhanya Pilo takes a round through Techfest 2007, which brought a spectacular artistic celebration of technology and science, at IIT Mumbai during January 26 - 28, 2007. |
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Feb 5, 2007
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“It was a kind of discovery for us”
Jayaram Poduval in conversation with Gulammohammed Sheikh about his involvement as the curator of Benodebehari Centenary Retrospective, which is on at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi till February 11, 2007.
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Feb 5, 2007
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Jan 15, 2007
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Tryst with Peace
Buddha Enlightened, an international art project for world peace, which took place in Bodhgaya, is one of the biggest site-specific projects, which India has seen in recent years. From October 20 to November 30, 2006 more than 30 artists from the Netherlands, Surinam, Israel, France, UK, Canada, Japan along with Indian artists attended and created art works ranging from paintings to sculptures, installations and films for this peace project. Sanjeev Sinha, the director of this project, shares his vision and experiences with Jayaram Poduval and Anoop Kamath at his residence in Delhi. Excerpts:
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Jan 01, 2007
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Probing a Bizzare World
Oindrilla Maity recalls Sukumar Roy’s countless composite animals and characters, with their most unprecedented oddities and idiosyncratic manners
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Jan 01, 2007
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Deconstructed Categories
The famed Nandan Mela at Santiniketan this year saw a brash merger of the commercial and the professional, leaving one curious about where the essence had disappeared: reads Rahul Bhattacharya
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Dec. 15, 2006 |
The Return of the Centre Left and the Politics of Desire
Edge of Desire claims to be the first serious stocktaking of the country’s contemporary cultural heritage. But Rahul Bhattacharya finds that the show’s claims towards heterogeneity of the Indian culture seem to have been lost in an articulation of political concerns.
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Nov. 15, 2006 |
Re-Conceptualising Public Art
Re-Conceptualising Public Art is the second part of the two part series titled Towards Public Art. by Rahul Bhattacharya. It aims at problematising the manner in which the concept and practice of public art is understood and operated upon. The first part of this series -titled De Conceptualising Public Art - was featured in the November 1st upload.
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Nov. 1, 2006
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De-Conceptualising Public Art
De-Conceptualising the Process is the first of a two-part series by Rahul Bhattacharya titled Towards Public Art. It aims at problematising the manner in which the concept and practice of public art is understood and operated upon.
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Nov. 1, 2006
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Case Study: CowParade
CowParade has captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of people around the world over the past four years, bringing art out of Museum and onto the streets. |
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Oct. 15, 2006 |
Tribute
Rahul Bhattacharya pays a tribute to Somnath Hore, One of the most powerful printmakers and sculptors of contemporary India
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Oct. 1, 2006
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New Media Art: Why it is Art!
Paddy Johnson finds out how new media art creates a tangible experience of collective consciousness, of largely inconsequential moments that collectively create something larger, and how user experience makes a significant difference to one’s understanding of the medium
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Oct. 1, 2006
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Art that Speaks for Itself
Lisbon-based artist Vvoi writes about the pros and cons of conceptual work, the commentary within an artwork put subtly by an artist, or imposed by the curator or one that is simply there |
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Sep. 1, 2006 |
Mixing Business with Passion
Sakshi Juneja meets Mumbai-based art connoisseur Ashish Balram Nagpal and discusses various issues pertaining to art market and investment. She interrogates isssues like, the reasons for media’s interest in contemporary art, acceptance of Indian artists globally, the risks and benefits contemporary art has to offer–business wise, and probes him on new up-coming Indian artists. Sakshi met Ashish at his gallery in Juhu. Excerpts:
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Sep. 1, 2006
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Aug. 15, 2006 |
De-centralising Art: in a Polycentric World
Rahul Bhattacharya attends First Venice, then...Biennials in a polycentric Art world, by Robert Storr, at the School of Art and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and comes back with a few questions .
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Aug. 15, 2006
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Who Elevates Who?
Rajeev Sethi, the Art impresario and organiser of international cultural events, speaks to JohnyML about how India has lost out in the global cultural scenario thanks to institutional apathy. |
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July. 15, 2006 |
Circles of Reason
Johny ML looks at five watercolours by the noted young Artist, NS Harsha, and lets his imagination wander.
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July. 15, 2006 |
Curated Shows are Group Shows in Disguise
Alka Raghuvanshi, the first Indian curator to study curatorial practice at the Goldsmiths College, University of London, argues that curatorial practice cannot be exclusivist. |
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July. 15, 2006 |
Politics of Curating
Uma Nair scans through the ‘curated’ shows that happened during 2005-06 and opines that curatorial practice has become a field of power politics |
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July. 1, 2006 |
‘I am Celebrating Liberation’- Heeral Trivedi
Just before her solo show at the Guild Gallery in Mumbai, Baroda-based Artist Heeral Trivedi spoke to Johny ML about her ideological positioning in the general discourse of feminism. |
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July. 1, 2006 |
Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mrinal Kulkarni scans through the Indian contemporary Art historic discourse on feminist Art and wonders why Indian women Artists resist being called ‘feminist Artists’ |
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June. 15, 2006 |
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June. 15, 2006 |
A Curious Oscilloscope
Noted journalist and art educationist AV Varghese previews the works of the young artist-writer, Abhishek Hazra. |
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June. 1, 2006 |
When Curating creates credibilty
Uma Nair visits Real 2006 and observes that the thematic variation is skilfully juxtaposed in the show by a dexterous curatorial mind |
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May. 15, 2006 |
BB4: Of Mice, Men and Residual Grimness
Noted Art historian and critic Anshuman Das Gupta looks at the curatorial specialities of Berlin Biennale, BB4 and extensively reports on it from Berlin and Santiniketan.
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May. 15, 2006 |
The dilemma of the critic
Johny ML writes two reviews on the same exhibition and says that a work of art does not have permanent truth value and the critical authority of the viewer/critic can only bring forth such value. |
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May. 15, 2006 |
Caught in the Political Storm
Todd LaRiche writes about the informal performance done by the Delhi-based Iraqi exile artist Hassan Al-Saidi and argues that his performance is loaded with political comments and the pangs of a man who has lost his land to political intrigue
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May. 15, 2006 |
When Brush-men turn Lens-men
Rahul Bhattacharya reports on the recently concluded Dilli Dur Ast, A lens-based artist camp in the walled city of Delhi. |
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May. 15, 2006 |
Oops: I fall on a bed of words and bleed
Johny ML reads through an introductory piece in a catalogue written by Rajashree Biswal and finds that instead of mediating the meaning, she goes on a narcissistic trip and plays with undigested ideas and jargon.
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May. 1, 2006 |
Back to Abstraction
Mrinal Kulkarni takes a quick look at the history of abstraction in Modern Indian Art and argues that in the return of abstraction in the contemporary Art scene, the amalgamation of ideology and style is yet to happen. |
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May. 1, 2006 |
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Guided by the Process
“Deeply fascinated by mathematical precisions and loss of physics, Sunil’s works explore multi-dimensional possibilities of art. |
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May. 1, 2006 |
Revealing Symphonies
I always avoid speaking about my works. Somehow I feel that my works themselves speak a lot.
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May. 1, 2006 |
Reporting Via Mumbai
Anshuman Dasgupta reports extensively on the recently concluded MPCVA seminar -multiple cultures in a globalising world. |
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April. 15, 2006 |
NewClearAge
Valsan Koorma Kolleri turns disused industrial space into a living space for sculpture. Bronze, beads, iron, air, Valsan’s materials vary from work to work. But he has something to tell the world through these.
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April. 15, 2006 |
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April. 1, 2006 |
No Double Meanings Here
Johny ML counters the arguments of Abhijeet Tamhane who indirectly places the Double Enders exhibition in the 'regional, linguistic category'. |
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April. 1, 2006 |
I was a happy workaholic- Jitish Kallat.
First of its kind, in a exclusive interview with www.mattersofart.com noted Artist Jitish Kallat opens his mind-about galleries, friends and the works that navigate the world. |
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March. 15, 2006 |
Drawing Dialogues
After 15 years, Vivan Sundaram is back. Drawing is self-reflexive, he says, of his new medium in an interview with Johny ML, editor, www.mattersofart.com.
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Feburary. 15, 2006 |
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February. 15, 2006 |
There is Hope for Everyone
Google.com, the pretty jovial search engine is the darling of web surfers. Type the name `Gopikrishna’ and you may get a few sites that lead you to Kundalini masters to moviemakers. |
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