i. Provide discourse on Indian visual arts by providing accessibility to recent history and developments in Indian visual arts

ii. Make available the forgotten and lesser known histories of Indian visual arts in order to locate their contemporaneity

iii. Make available new ways of interpreting visual arts in India for the current and future generation

Abhay Sardesai has been the Editor of ART India, the premier art magazine of India, since November 2002. He has been a Visiting Faculty in Aesthetics at the Department of English, University of Mumbai, and has also been the Chair of Humanities, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture, Mumbai. He teaches at the Smt. P. N. Doshi Women’s College of Arts and also at various other institutions like Jnanapravaha and TISS.

Parul Dave-Mukherji is professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She holds a PhD in Indology from Oxford University. Her current research interests include global art history, contemporary Asian art and comparative aesthetics.

Director
Gayatri Sinha
Gayatri Sinha is a critic, editor and curator who works in the domains of gender, lens-based art, and cultural politics.

She has edited Voices of Change: 20 Indian Artists (Marg 2010), Art and Visual Culture in India 1857- 2007 (Marg Publications, 2009); Indian Art: an Overview (Rupa Books, 2003); Woman/Goddess (1998); Expressions and Evocations: Contemporary Indian Women Artists of India (Marg Publications, 1996]. She has written monographs on the artists Krishen Khanna and Himmat Shah. As a curator, she has worked within museums and institutions in India and abroad including the Vancouver Art Gallery, National Gallery of Modern Art, the National Museum, the Bhau Daji Lad Museum, the Grand Curtius and Musee Ansembourg Belgium, the Newark Museum and Minneapolis Institute of Art, in the USA, the Fotographie Forum Frankfurt, among others. She has lectured in Tate Britain, MoMA New York, Aarken Museum Denmark, The Rockbund Shanghai, NYU, Duke University and several other institutional spaces.

Since 2011, she has directly supported knowledge in the arts through her initiative Critical Collective, which is the first such art archive and news magazine on Indian art.

In 2017, she received the Tate Asia research fellowship grant. She is currently editing a volume on Modern and Contemporary Photography.

Editor
Mrinalini Vasudevan, Copy Editor
Mrinalini has a background in English Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has previously worked as copywriter with Bates, Kolkata, and as an editor with Orient BlackSwan, Kolkata, and The Marg Foundation,Mumbai.

Arundhati Bhan, Associate Editor
Arundhati has a background in History from Ambedkar University Delhi. She has previously worked as a researcher for historical studies with the National Law University, Delhi and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. She also managed the pre modern collection at the Museum of Art & Photography, Bengaluru.

Researchers
Namrata Ghosh, USA Correspondent
Namrata Ghosh has an M. Phil from The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, a Masters in History from Delhi University and a Bachelor’s degree in History from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi. Her areas of interest include visual and material cultures, photographic practices, socio-cultural histories, popular memory and museum studies. Namrata is currently pursuing her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh.

Radhika Sharma
Radhika Sharma holds a Masters in Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a Bachelors in Journalism, Psychology, and English from Christ (Deemed to be University). She has previously worked as a researcher for a project with the Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru. Her research interests include the arts of the Mughal world, medieval and pre-modern painting traditions, visual cultures and museums.

Radhika Tulsian
Radhika has a background in History, with a Masters in Medieval History from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a Bachelor’s degree in History from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi. Her research interests include popular culture and memory, the public sphere, gender and folk traditions.

Sweta Singh
Sweta Singh completed her bachelors and masters degrees from Benaras Hindu University in the History of Art. Her areas of interest include modern art, and the architectural history of Eastern Utter Pradesh, especially in and around Varanasi.

Design
Sanket Jadia
Sanket Jadia is an artist & graphic designer based in Delhi. He is the recipient of Inlaks Fine Arts Award (2017) and was featured in Forbes 30 under 30 (2020).

Ridhi Khanna
Ridhi Khanna is a creative director and researcher; she has a background in Art History from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi and Communication Design from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai. Her research interests include lens based practices, food histories, and textile traditions. Her work involves shaping design values of organizations by defining their visual language and contributing through art direction, graphic design and photography. She has collaborated and has been associated with Public Arts Trust of India, Jaipur Art Week, Critical Collective, National Museum, KNMA, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Bikaner House, Nila Jaipur, Paro (Goodearth), Pearl Academy, NDTV and GoodTimes. She contributed as a researcher and designed an extensive volume on photography titled The Archival Gaze: A Timeline of Photography in India (1840-2020).