Friday, May 3, 2019

‘Padmini’- A Much Needed Biopic on Artist T.K.Padmini by Susmesh Chandroth

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(Padmini- promo poster) Biopics are a difficult genre. Still directors attempt to make them. It is a creative risk and historical...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

What Should Indian Artists Do to Survive: a Dominque Gonzalez-Foerster Lesson

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(artist Dominque Gonzalez-Foerster) With no light flickering at the other end to show that the darkness that we have been passing...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Indian Artists during the Right Wing Regime and the forthcoming Venice Biennale

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(Artists with Adwaita Gadanayak, Director General of the NGMA) Are the Indian artists making the kind of art that is expected of ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Notre Dame Fire Deliberate: Was it Shock Doctrine at its Best?

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(Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris) Notre Dame Cathedral, a 12 th century Gothic Church was partially gutted down by a freaky fire o...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Chithrasenan NE, Modern Book Centre and Orhan Pamuk: Trivandrum Sketches 1

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(Chithrasenan NE at his Modern Book Centre) Trivandrum is a small city; perhaps a city in India where you could walk down to most...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Death Can be an Unlikely Title but Death is the only Likely Thing: Balucharan’s Art Exhibition

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(artist Balucharan) “I live in a demotivating society,” says Balucharan, a thirty five year old artist who has currently put up his...
Monday, April 1, 2019

Why the Jakarta Mermaids Should Make Us Think about India’s Public Sculptures?

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(mermaid with blouse in Jakarta) It did make to international news though this part of the world neglected it completely. Had it ...