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Gayatri Sinha


Gayatri Sinha is an art critic, curator and has founded Critical Collective. Her primary areas of enquiry are around the structures of gender and iconography, media, economics and social history. In her work with Critical Collective she seeks to promote discourse and knowledge within cultural practices through active public exchange.As curator her work has cited the domains of photography and lens based work from archival and contemporary sources. Currently she is working on a yearlong video project for the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai. Curatorial projects include: Water, Musee d'Ansembourg and the Grand Curtius Museum, Liege, 2013; Ideas of Sublime, Lalit Kala Akademi, 2013; Cynical Love:Life in the everyday, Kiran Nadar Museum, 2011; Looking Glass: The Existence of Difference, Religare Arts Initiative, Max Mueller Bhavan, British Council, 2010; Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India, The Newark Museum, New Jersey, 2007 and Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2008; Vilas: The Idea of Pleasure, Birla Academy, Mumbai, 2000; The Self and the World, Women artists at the National Gallery of Modern Art, 1997. 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) among many others.
ESSAYS

Failing to court the court painter

by  Gayatri Sinha

Ravi Varma was a product of his times who gained fame not as an originator of trends but one who quested for a truly authentic subject matter.

By all appearances the Raja Ravi Varma exhibition, an attempt to rehabilitate the court painter has gone completely askew. The exhibition at

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Art Criticism in India : A brief history and critical compulsions

by  Gayatri Sinha

I want to speak briefly about issues of critical writing and criticality in India, my reference points will be to some foundational developments and my own position as a critic-curator. I will also dwell a little more on the recent period.

The Agency of Crisis

The critic in India is heralded

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