Indian Democracy under Scrutiny
Virginia WhilesA review of the Barbican’s exhibition, The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998, which features 30 artists’ responses to the postcolonial nation-state’s failed promises of democracy.

25 Nov 2024 | Review

George K in Conversation with Ravinder Reddy
George K. discusses his Aravani series, on display at the 2024-2025 Bangkok Art Biennale, and his broader practice that engages with alternative gender and sexuality.

25 Nov 2024 | Interview

The Consensual Hallucination of L.N. Tallur
Shankar TripathiIn Tallur’s solo exhibition, Neti-Neti, data is transformed into a colour-coded landscape of bronze and metallic forms, and the glitch that ruptures through traditional figures becomes the new code.

25 Nov 2024 | Review

Ismat Chughtai’s Lihaaf, through Bhasha Chakrabarti’s Gaze
Neerja DeodharChakrabarti’s latest show, Karvat, brings together her long fascination with the iconic Urdu story about queer desire, and her own engagement with cloth and lovers in domestic settings.

25 Nov 2024 | Review

Where Durga Masquerades as Empress Victoria
Tapati Guha-ThakurtaIn a perceptive reading of a 2024 puja pandal, Tapati Guha-Thakurta provides a close study of the colonial and postcolonial statuary against the changing socio-political milieu of Kolkata.

24 Oct 2024 | Essay

Late Style and Naked Representation in the Works by K.G. Subramanyan
Parul Dave MukherjiA self-referential quality and a thinking about images through images dominate a recent exhibition on works produced by Subramanyan during the last decade of his life.

24 Oct 2024 | Review

Purvaee: From the East to the Rest
Radhika Sharma and Radhika TulsianThis ongoing exhibition at KNMA, Noida, looks at intersecting lives and institutional and artistic associations between the Santiniketan and Baroda art schools in their early years.

24 Oct 2024 | Review

The Lie of the Land
Adip DuttaThis review of Paula Sengupta’s recent exhibition reveals the ways in which she combines her affinity for textiles and printmaking to engage with the many layered histories of riverine Bengal.

24 Oct 2024 | Review

Negating and Negotiating Abstraction
Saraswathy K. BhattathiriPainting with Fire at MAP, Bengaluru, brings together the works of Jeram Patel and Tarik Currimbhoy, through their distinct ways of using the blowtorch to create newer forms and surfaces.

24 Oct 2024 | Review