by admin | Jun 4, 2019 | Articles, General
Nightie came into practice among Indian woman in 1980s and was worn day in and day out, by middle class woman, in the beginning. It was to have free movements, to be worn in the night, for sleep. However the nightie surpassed the sleep and was worn for household work,...
by admin | Jun 4, 2019 | Articles, General
2040 A.D: ART IN BANGALORE: 1st January 2040: In the Art Café (like Internet Café of 2000A.D) I read about a new criminal law. Anybody who disrupts a Public Art Intervention was to be fined and treated as the traffic violaters. It is already well known that the...
by admin | Jul 3, 2014 | Articles, General, Travelogue
(Article first published in www.travelanddeal.com, edited by Siddharth Tagore & Paramjot Walia on 30th June 2014) Manchinabele dam or reservoir or however you address it, is located just thirty kilometers away from Bengaluru. This distance-measure is to be done...
by admin | Jun 23, 2014 | Articles, General
To draw is a verb, more than a noun, in the visual cultural representation of India. Despite the historic uncertainties of its origin in the Indian art context, its relevance with political independence is deeply etched. The new nation’s political will was to act (as...
by admin | Jun 18, 2014 | Articles, General, History of Art and Artists in Karnataka
(Article first published under the same title in www.cartanart.com on 16th June 2014; edited by Johny M.L and Sushma Sabnis) Discourse on caste politics in Indian visual culture is a taboo, a sacrilege while it might not be actually so in practice. The reason for...
by admin | Jun 10, 2014 | Articles, General
A couple of years ago I was discussing about the nature of discourse around visual arts with a professor from Santiniketan. Obviously he was from the department of art history. “Things are fine with Cultural Study, but what happens to Art History in that case?” he...
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