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 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 | 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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