by | Nov 30, 2019 | ARCHIVE, Articles, General, History of Art and Artists in Karnataka
A Mode(rni)st Beginning: Ganjifa art is a game whose ‘rules’ are fast fading and is an art form whose ‘play’ is yet to begin. Art before Authorship/Signature and Modernism was not so sectionalized, between the aesthetic and the mundane...
by admin | Jun 6, 2019 | Articles, General
The retrospect show of representative photographs by and about Jitendra Arya’s (1931-2011) at NGMA (Bengaluru, till 21st August 2018) is, first of all, about the historical alterations in the cultural sights that India as a nation began to evoke since 1950s. Arya...
by admin | Jun 6, 2019 | Articles, General
(In representation or otherwise) ‘Floating Piers’ (2016) by Jean Claude and Christo was a work that was seemingly functional for sixteen days, as long as it existed. This bridge also served as a semi-obituary, a story of individual loss, several coincidences and a...
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...
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