Our time for a future caring
Roobina Karode, curator of the India pavilion at the Venice Biennale speaks to Gayatri Sinha

15 Apr 2019

An Indian photography capital?
CC speaks with Pushpamala N., curator of the recently concluded Chennai Photo Biennale

02 Apr 2019

Haku Shah: Artist and Revivalist par excellence
27 Mar 2019

A-Gender of Kochi Biennale 2018
A review by Parul Dave Mukherji

25 Mar 2019

Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019)
Three artists' tribute: Raqs Media Collective, Ravi Agarwal and Amar Kanwar

20 Mar 2019

The Desert of the Anthropocene
Ravi Agarwal talks to CC about his ongoing project The Desert of the Anthropocene and its latest iteration at the India Art Fair, 2019.

05 Mar 2019

Submergence: In the midst of here and there
Parul SinghA review of Arpita Singh's recent retrospective at KNMA, Delhi.

04 Mar 2019

Drishyakala: Visualising the Identity of a Nation
Girinandini Singh reviews the expansive collection of artworks tracing the development of Indian art.

27 Feb 2019

Sexy Steel and Hashtag Capitalism
Diva Gujral reviews the ongoing Jeff Koons exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum.

27 Feb 2019

"in the absence of writing”: Oral Traditions and Historical Memory
Najrin IslamOn the role of oral histories and embodied knowledge as chronicled by Astha Butail during her year-long journey across India, Iran and Jerusalem through sonic interpretations.

27 Feb 2019

Here and There
Manjunath Kamath’s “Era Elsewhere” creates a dialogue between the past and the present through a contemporary lens, questioning the pre-conceived authenticity of history. A review by Shrinjita Biswas.

26 Feb 2019

The Possibilities of the Slow Stitch
Amrita Gupta Singh discusses the work of Rakhi Peswani who employs textiles in her practice as concept and form.

26 Feb 2019

"We are all in this mess together"
Anita Dube, curator of Kochi Muziris Biennale 2018 speaks to Virginia Whiles.

20 Feb 2019

A view of the India Art Fair 2019
A quick view of select exhibitions, books and events surrounding the fair.

07 Feb 2019

Mimesis as Nemesis?
Pushpamala’s Funambulist Body Politic. A review by Parul Dave Mukherji.

17 Jan 2019

Into the Wild: Fixing the Future
Deepika Sorabjee explores Rohini Devasher’s exhibition Hopeful Monsters that presents itself at the cusp of archive and technology, of fact and fiction and their blurred possibilities.

17 Jan 2019

Connecting Threads: Textiles in Contemporary Practice
Katyayani SinhaA review of Bhau Daji Lad’s latest exhibition curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta and Puja Vaish.

17 Jan 2019

The Met’s Devotion to Pahari Painting
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art currently hosts an exhibition of Pahari artworks, with the goal of introducing visitors to bhakti. Reviewed by Gale J. Berninghausen.

17 Jan 2019

Book Review
Parul Dave Mukherji reviews Aesthetic Bind: 50 Years of Contemporary Art Five Exhibitions/ Curated by Geeta Kapur, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, 2014.

09 Jan 2019

CC shorts
Exhibition reviews

09 Jan 2019

Reflections on a ‘hydro-aesthetic’ journey
Parul SinghA review of Atul Bhalla’s exhibition Anhedonic Dehiscence at Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi.

07 Jan 2019

Mrinal Sen: The chronicler, the humanist
(1923-2018)

31 Dec 2018

My Colour on Your Plate
Shreya ChaudhuriA reading of first time curator Subodh Gupta’s exhibition at the Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa 2018.

30 Dec 2018

Cycles in the City
Damini Kulkarni reviews Manish Nai’s ongoing exhibition at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai.

28 Dec 2018

A Blitheness in Form
The Kolkata show mounts a career-spanning retrospective of the polymath artist Dashrath Patel, bringing in a fluidity that the artist’s work deserves. Reviewed by Pujita Guha.

26 Dec 2018

A curious pastiche
Shreya ChaudhuriPhotography exhibitions at the Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa 2018.

25 Dec 2018

Landscape as an Ideological Genre
Amrita Gupta Singh re-examines the role of Nikhil Chopra’s drawings as rehearsal acts for his expansive live performances in the ongoing exhibition at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai.

20 Dec 2018

Days without a Night
Najrin IslamThe review takes a look at trauma, memory and embodied knowledge as they manifest in the exhibition through a contextually specific lens.

19 Dec 2018

The Artist Interventionist: Tushar Joag (1966-2018)
18 Dec 2018

Beyond Reversals
The concrete utopian vision of Chitra Ganesh’s Her garden, a mirror in NYC. A review by Gayatri Gopinath.

05 Dec 2018

Modern Love
The Barbican’s Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde parallels modern art with modern love. A review by Kathryn Lloyd.

27 Nov 2018

Spellbound
’Mummified Cats and Magical Thinking”. A piece by Virginia Whiles on the exhibition Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

27 Nov 2018

Interview
Christopher Pinney in conversation with Ronny Sen on his photographic engagement with the coal mining landscape of Jharia, Jharkhand.

27 Nov 2018

On the brink
Gigi Scaria's show Ecce Homo is a cautionary tale of human hubris. A review by Meera Menezes.

27 Nov 2018

Granite, Lamp and Mirror: Reviewing the Colonial Body
KM Madhusudhanan presents a body of work that spans a range of historical watershed moments in cinema and politics. A piece by Najrin Islam.

23 Oct 2018

Black Artists and Modernism in UK Museums
A cosmopolitan cocktail? A review by Virginia Whiles.

23 Oct 2018

Breaking Ground: Experiments with the Elemental Material
The first ever ceramics triennale of India pushes the envelope. Reviewed by Sania Galundia.

23 Oct 2018

Delirium//Equilibrium: The Moving Image in Art
A show of video and kinetic works at the KNMA, Delhi charts a new landscape of art. A review by Amrita Chakravarty.

26 Sep 2018

Artful Challenging
"In some ways I'm working as a cartoonist, a satirist, more than a graphic novelist. I'm always treading a line, it's hard to say if I've crossed a line." Ita Mehrotra speaks to Orijit Sen.

26 Sep 2018

The Visual Economy of Picture Postcards
Amrita Gupta Singh on the visual and literary aspects of the turn of the 20^th century postcards in the exhibition Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai.

25 Sep 2018

Prosthetics Over Paintings
An ongoing exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London that neglects Frida Kahlo’s art in favour of her fashion and medical possessions. Reviewed by Rhea Tuli.

24 Sep 2018

Art and Ecologies on the Edge
Maya Kóvskaya"Starting from the Desert," with its focus on "Ecologies on the Edge," the Second Yinchuan Biennale celebrates multiplicities and complicates old formulations of centre and periphery.

28 Aug 2018

Books received
A compilation of short book reviews.

27 Aug 2018

Earth Memory: A Collective Identity of Creation
The art of ceramics is revitalised by a generation of artist-sculptors. Kristine Michael reviews the exhibition at Gallery Espace, Delhi.

27 Aug 2018

Jitendra Arya: Exposing People Digitally
Arya’s photographs are a teaser, indicating an absent white cube space between lobby photos and calendar imagery. The retrospective at NGMA, Bangalore reviewed by H.A. Anil Kumar.

24 Aug 2018

As It Is: Trading Categories for Compassion
Tejal Shah challenges conventions about gender and sexuality in the exhibition at Mimosa House, London. A review by Rhea Tuli.

24 Aug 2018

Commentary
On the recent arrest and detention of Shahidul Alam in Dhaka. Responses by artists, and an appeal by SAHMAT.

09 Aug 2018

Terrain: Carrying Across, Leaving Behind
Nilima Sheikh’s Terrain: Carrying Across, Leaving Behind - unfolds like a screen scroll and a hand held muraqqa at Bikaner House, New Delhi, till July 29. A review by Gayatri Sinha.

26 Jul 2018

Graphic Testimonies
In the wake of the recent release of the second volume of First Hand: Graphic Narratives from India, John Xaviers traces the history of graphic non-fiction as an emerging genre in India.

26 Jul 2018

Joining the dots
Meera Menezes explores Dreamtime and other myths in the art of Australia’s indigenous artists at NGMA, Delhi.

17 Jul 2018

Late Raza
CC reviews the Raza Foundation’s tribute exhibition Uttar Raag at Triveni Kala Sangam, Delhi.

16 Jul 2018

'Gold or Garam Masala?'
Virginia Whiles reviews the Subodh Gupta retrospective at La Monnaie de Paris.

20 Jun 2018

The Burden of Chronology
The temporal obedience of Tate Modern’s ambitious new photography exhibition, The Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art, is its greatest undoing. A review by Diva Gujral.

20 Jun 2018

Another (Film) History Rises to the Surface
Amrita Chakravarty writes about the continued significance of the Nemai Ghosh archive in its latest outing at the Nehru Memorial, Delhi.

20 Jun 2018

A Prophetic Vision that Dares to Imagine Otherwise
Chitra Ganesh’s new digital animations at the Rubin Museum of Art, NY provide dream-like visions that dare to imagine otherwise. A review by Natasha Bissonauth.

19 Jun 2018

The Female Body in Experiential Space
Shakuntala Kulkarni speaks at length with Amrita Gupta Singh in the context of her latest exhibition Juloos and Other Stories at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai.

18 Jun 2018

The Poetics of Labour
Adip Dutta reviews the ongoing exhibition at Experimenter, Kolkata.

01 Jun 2018

Interview
In the wake of two exhibitions Shanay Jhaveri speaks to Gayatri Sinha of The Met’s new approach to its “blind spot”, modern and contemporary art in South Asia.

23 May 2018

Admitting the Popular
Paula SenguptaAn exhibition in Kolkata brings to the haloed portals of the Victoria Memorial Hall the microcosmos of printmaking in Chitpur with the exhibition 19th Century Swadeshi Art in Bengal.

23 May 2018 | Review

The Home and the World
Beth CitronHuma Bhabha and Ranjani Shettar’s sculptural installations at The Met present powerful, under represented feminist narratives concerning contemporary South Asian sculpture.

16 May 2018 | Review

Many Visions, Many Versions: Art from Indigenous Communities in India
Book review by Shreya Chaudhuri.

15 May 2018

Lost Text
Navjot Altaf’s new works address the interplay between memory and text in an exploration of the visual aesthetics of ancient scriptures and digital technology. A review by Amrita Gupta Singh.

25 Apr 2018

Between the Mundane and the Monumental
“The Baroda Narrative Style” reflects two artists Bhupen Khakhar and Nataraj Sharma whose paintings make a case for the subaltern. Georgina Maddox reviews the shows at Swaraj Art Archive and VAG.

25 Apr 2018

Ram Kumar (1924-2018)
A Letter to the Artist by Gayatri Sinha

17 Apr 2018

First International Print Biennale: Of discontinuity and disjuncture
On printmaking ‘re-claiming’ centre stage. A review of the Print Biennale 2018, New Delhi by Shreya Chaudhuri.

16 Apr 2018

Class Crisis
Recent events at the School of Arts and Aesthetics reflects the shrinking space for liberal education in India. By Amrita Chakravarty

10 Apr 2018

Hashiya - a space of enchantment
On the border in Indian painting: Gayatri Sinha reviews the exhibition Hashiya - the Margin.

05 Apr 2018

Forgotten Spaces
Meera Menezes on Asim Waqif’s enquiry into the repercussions of violence on spaces and structures in his solo exhibition, Residual Fear at Nature Morte, New Delhi

22 Mar 2018

WHERE THERE's a WILL...
The Lahore Biennale 01: Shehr-O-Funn reviewed by Virginia Whiles.

21 Mar 2018

An anthology of personal myths
Anju Dodiya’s 17^th solo show The Air is a Mill of Hooks, after Sylvia Plath’s poem, Mystic. Review by Ridhi Khanna.

21 Mar 2018

(Un)MYthU: Byproducts of twenty years of performance
A process of seeing and unseeing. A review by Jesal Thacker.

19 Mar 2018

To Despair in Hopelessness
Premjish reflects on the politically engaged practice of Altaf on the occasion of the artist's retrospective at the DAG.

27 Feb 2018

Holy Shiver: Democracy and its Discontents
Riyas Komu's exhibition on the death of the ideal - reviews Amrita Chakravarty.

27 Feb 2018

Makrana White
In an exhibition marking the anniversary of Independence, seven decades of freedom are signposted by seven traumas. Sumesh Sharma reviews "India Re-Worlded: Seventy Years of Investigating a Nation".

27 Feb 2018

An ode to the master: Dhanraj Bhagat (1917-1988)
An exhibition at the NGMA brings together the vast repertoire of Dhanraj Bhagat's work, writes Shreya Chaudhuri.

27 Feb 2018

Re-take of ‘Vivan’
Fifty years of Vivan Sundaram's work at the KNMA - A review by Amrita Chakravarty

21 Feb 2018

India Art Fair 2018
CC previews some of the unmissables at the Art Fair collateral events, and signals gallery initiatives that will be the highlights of the coming week.

06 Feb 2018

Around the world and back (home) to India: A story of 228 objects
A review by Arshiya Lokhandwala.

27 Jan 2018

A Multitudinous Cast
Natasha Ginwala examines Gauri Gill's latest series Acts of Appearance and its "lucid interplay between reality and fiction", first shown in documenta 14. On view at Nature Morte, New Delhi

25 Jan 2018

Droboniyo’s Tippani Room: Dilemmas of the Historical Contingent
Amrita Chakravarty reviews Abhishek Hazra’s exhibition on the exigencies of global citizenship.

23 Jan 2018

Interview
"The natural landscape has either become a repository of waste, or the provider of capital." Ravi Agarwal in conversation with Gayatri Sinha on the interface of art and ecology.

23 Jan 2018

Himmat Shah at Jawahar Kala Kendra
Gayatri SinhaA smaller version of what was seen in the KNMA retrospective - is an exhibition significant beyond the event.

16 Jan 2018 | Review

Sculpture Park: Past forward to Contemporary Art
Shreya Chaudhuri provides an overview of the newly opened Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Nahargarh fort, Jaipur.

20 Dec 2017

The Art of Dispossession
Zarina’s minimalist meditations on dislocation, diaspora, and memories of home at the ongoing exhibition at A|P|A Institute, NYU. A review by Nadia Nooreyezdan.

20 Dec 2017

‘If humankind wants to survive the twenty-first century’
Nalini Malini references myths to "compose an oneiric vision of a world" in her ongoing retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. A review by Devika Singh.

14 Dec 2017

A letter from the artists: Defending the Radical Vision of documenta
In the controversy surrounding documenta's expansion into Athens, participating artists write a second letter of defence of the exhibition. CC carries their text in whole.

04 Dec 2017

The Art of Comparison, Interruption and Boundary-Crossing
A conversation between Gigi Scaria and Christiane Brosius

23 Nov 2017

The death of an idea
Diva GujralTate Modern’s ambitious new exhibition, Red Star Over Russia: A Revolution in Visual Culture is an exercise in the construction of a radical new pictorial regime and its downfall.

23 Nov 2017

The inconceivable: on the first Karachi Biennale
The first Karachi Biennale presents another Karachi in its geographical and artistic exposition of the historic "bruised city," writes Zarmeene Shah.

22 Nov 2017

Colour-stills of an Alternate Modernism
Nadia Nooreyezdan reviews the ongoing retrospective of Raghubir Singh’s work at The Met Breuer, New York.

21 Nov 2017

Mumbai: Endless City
“What I am today comes from my thoughts of yesterday and my thoughts today will shape my tomorrow.” Sudhir Patwardhan in conversation with Gayatri Sinha on painting Mumbai, the endless city.

16 Nov 2017

Arc, Silt, Dive
"Your work offers us a different way to relate to time: by historicizing but in a way that refuses containment by history." Sheba Chhachhi in conversation with Lata Mani on the subject of her book.

25 Oct 2017

documenta 14
Gayatri Sinha in conversation with Nilima Sheikh (conclusion)

25 Oct 2017

Manchester Museums and Partition
Virginia Whiles reviews five different exhibitions held across Manchester to mark the 70th anniversary of the South Asian Holocaust and the Independence of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh.

11 Oct 2017

Review
A new book on the Baroda Royal art collection and institutions foregrounds notions of individual agency as lying at the heart of an indigenous modernity, writes Parul Dave Mukherji.

11 Oct 2017

Crystal Cities, Fragile Worlds
Meera Menezes examines the precarious balance between the natural and urban worlds in Jagannath Panda’s show.

26 Sep 2017

A conversation with Manu Parekh
On the eve of a major retrospective, Manu Parekh reflects on a career spanning decades of the nation's history and its art. An interview with Annapurna Garimella.

26 Sep 2017

Review
In Laura El-Tantawy's exhibition In the Shadow of the Pyramids, the personal is the political as history intersects with memory. A review by Suryanandini Narain.

26 Sep 2017

Drifting Threads: Cholamandal Artists’ Village over fifty years
Ashrafi Bhagat traces the past, present and future of the Cholamandal Artists' Village in Chennai.

26 Sep 2017

Interview
Elena Filipovic speaks to Gayatri Sinha against the background of the tantalizing exhibition, Dangerous Afternoon by Yan Xing.

07 Sep 2017

FABRIK - On the Circulation of Data, Goods and People
Deepika Sorabjee writes on the efficacy of the essay-film as a travelling art form in her review of the post-Venice after-lives of FABRIK.

23 Aug 2017

An Archive of Memories/Memories of the Archive
Remembering Vivan Sundaram's site-specific installation at the Victoria Memorial, twenty years on - a review of an anthology of essays on Sundaram's History Project by Amrita Chakravarty.

23 Aug 2017

Orlando in Soho
Little known histories of Queer Art in Britain 1861-1967 at Tate Britain look at the aesthetics of "deviance" under the legal regimes of the time. A review by Gayatri Sinha

23 Aug 2017

Review
Nadia Nooreyezdan reviews Arpita Singh's Tying down time at Talwar Gallery, New York and Surendran Nair's Cuckoonebulopolis at Aicon Gallery, New York.

23 Aug 2017

Strangers in Paradise?
Calcutta-born, London-based Raqib Shaw throws open a fantastical world in his recent solo exhibition at Whitworth Gallery, Manchester. A review by Zehra Jumabhoy.

27 Jul 2017

Of Fragments and Relics
Nadia Nooreyezdan traces the material histories that conceptual artist Vivan Sundaram draws upon his latest exhibition, Terraoptics at sepiaEYE, New York.

27 Jul 2017

Home in the City
Arshiya Lokhandwala speaks to Sooni Taraporevala about her practice against the backdrop of her solo exhibition on Bombay 1976 - Mumbai 2016 at the Whitworth Gallery.

27 Jul 2017 | Interview

Interview
Gayatri Sinha speaks to documenta 14 Artistic Director Adam Szymczyk and Curatorial Advisor Natasha Ginwala about the 'migrating' exhibition and its expansive idealism.

22 Jul 2017

Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave
Virginia WhilesOn Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's extraordinary imagery in the later years of his practice. A review of the exhibition at the British Museum.

23 Jun 2017

Anish Kapoor: The Skin of the Thing
Tarini MalikThe writer draws an arc of continuity from Anish Kapoor’s Marsyas (2002) to his recent exhibition at Lisson Gallery, London

23 Jun 2017

In Perspective: Modernism and Regionalism
Shreya ChaudhuriA review of Group 1890: India’s Indigenous Modernism & The Japan Foundation Asia Center Art Studies 03

22 Jun 2017

A generational shift
Gayatri SinhaVibha Galhotra’s immersive space at Exhibit 320 and Akansha Rastogi takes charge with Hangar for the Passerby at KNMA, Noida.

25 May 2017

Bharat Sikka: Kashmir: memory landscape
Ridhi Khanna reviews Bharat Sikka's photo series, Where the Flowers Still Grow in its recent iterations, at Kochi biennale and Nature Morte.

24 May 2017

57th Venice Biennale: Same but different
Virginia WhilesFrom Phyllida Barlow's "pragmatic politics of resistance" to the "tragicomic theme" of the Denmark Pavilion, Virginia Whiles reviews the biennale.

23 May 2017

See-through exhibition of seven exhibitions
Through the metaphor of semi-transparency, John Xaviers reviews Interpositions: Interplaying the Repository curated by Roobina Karode at KNMA.

23 May 2017

Exceeding the private, entering the public
Paula SenguptaSeen through the early 20^th century works of four printmakers of Bengal at Graphic Prints, Galerie 88, Kolkata.

23 May 2017 | Review

In conversation with Nilima Sheikh - Part I
Between Documenta at Athens and Kassel, Nilima Sheikh speaks to Gayatri Sinha on the making of a language that imbeds violence in pervasive beauty.

15 May 2017

Relocating peripheries: Kathmandu Triennale
The first Kathmandu Triennale heralds a new energetic initiative from the margins. Christiane Brosius reviews the event.

24 Apr 2017

Reflections on the KMB - Forming in the pupil of an eye
Roobina KarodeVisiting the Kochi biennale a day after it closed, Roobina Karode writes with empathy for the spaces of “meditation and self reflection” that the event invoked.

24 Apr 2017

Protagonist of Tradition: A legend passes
On the demise of S.Nandagopal, a tribute by Ashrafi S. Bhagat.

21 Apr 2017

Reconstructing Visual Imagery in the Age of Mass Production
Arshiya LokhandwalaA review of the exhibition Indian Popular Visual Culture: The Conquest of the World as Picture curated by Jyotindra Jain at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum.

20 Apr 2017

T J Demos speaks to Gayatri Sinha
On the idea of the global and the apocalypse of migration in a shrinking world.

12 Apr 2017

A CC Report
The appointment of Anita Dube as curator of the fourth edition of the Kochi Muziris Biennale comes at a critical juncture in the history of the KMB.

04 Apr 2017

Contrasting dialogues
Georgina Maddox reviews the cross cultural exchange between artists from India and Sri Lanka in the travelling exhibition A Tale of two Cities at IGNCA, New Delhi.

23 Mar 2017

Letter from India
Virginia Whiles"The art observed on my recent journey throughout India reflects the polarisation of a country split economically and politically."

22 Mar 2017

A Fine Symphony
Jyoti Bhatt, Bhupendra Karia and Nasreen Mohamedi at Jhaveri Contemporary. Reviewed by Niyatee Shinde.

22 Mar 2017

Where there is no archive
Sarover Zaidi establishes a connection between Azadeh Akhlagi and Gauri Gill in the event of political trauma and the condition of the 'witness'.

21 Mar 2017

In conversation with Sunil Gupta
Radhika SinghOn imaging queer bodies and the pursuit of the idea of belonging.

20 Mar 2017

Girlfriends: French, German, Italian, Egyptian, Santiniketan, Ghatkopar...
From Durer and Tagore to Piero della Francesca, Atul Dodiya speaks to Gayatri Sinha about methods and inspirations in his latest exhibition at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi.

21 Feb 2017

Interview
Meera Menezes caught up with Richard Armstrong, Director of the Guggenheim Museum for a brief chat after he spoke at the panel on The Future of Museums in a Globalized World at the India Art Fair.

21 Feb 2017

The Museum as a virtual space
Georgina Maddox interviews Jia Jia Fei, a pioneer of digital media and Director of Digital at The Jewish Museum, New York.

20 Feb 2017

Memory and Identity: Indian Artists Abroad
Shreya Chaudhuri examines the visual repertoire of India's diasporic artists. A review of the exhibition at DAG Modern, New Delhi.

19 Feb 2017

Migration Borders and Global Capital
Homi Bhabha addresses migration as an affective state in a seminar organised by Critical Collective, to mark the exhibition Part Narratives at Bikaner House, New Delhi.

24 Jan 2017

The Urban Bard of the 1990s
Georgina Maddox caught up with Jitish Kallat and Catherine David, curator of the exhibition at the NGMA, New Delhi.

24 Jan 2017

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016: Forming in the pupil of an eye
While celebrating some of the major art works on view, Meera Menezes also questions the uneven mode of presentation at the Kochi Biennale 2016.

19 Jan 2017

Learning from John Berger
Recalling a 1969 meeting with John Berger (1926-2017), Geeta Kapur commits a personal obituary to the influential Marxist art critic, his writing and his enduring relevance.

19 Jan 2017

1 among 100
One among the hundred artists at the Shanghai biennale curated by Raqs Media Collective, Verina Gfader presents a poetic and personal view.

15 Dec 2016

Thinking Tantra
Virginia Whiles who wrote on Tantric imagery first in 1971 visits Thinking Tantra at the Drawing Room, London, and analyses the different streams in this abstruse mode of abstraction.

15 Dec 2016

Harvesting Difference
Jaya Kanoria reads the exhibition The Naked and the Nude at DAG Modern, through the prism of ‘difference’ between European and Indian aesthetics.

14 Dec 2016 | Review

“This is drama, this is theatre”
On the occasion of a new exhibition, 'Anahad' at Famous Studios, Mumbai, Subodh Gupta speaks to Gayatri Sinha, about material, scale and shifts in his practice.

09 Dec 2016 | Interview

A Place in Time: Conversations with the Curator
Sudarshan Shetty speaks to Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli

28 Nov 2016

London Diary
Rashid Rana’s collaboration at the Royal Opera House and a rerun of Abel Gance’s Napoleon make for compelling viewing, writes Gayatri Sinha.

22 Nov 2016

Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde: Sonata of Solitude
Bodhana and Raza Foundation collaborate to produce an in-depth new study on the practice of the early modernist. Shreya Chaudhuri reviews the volume.

22 Nov 2016

Twin narratives of embodiment and materiality
Georgina MaddoxArtists Manisha Parekh and Naiza Khan dwell upon different experiences of the border, objects and representation, from different locations.

22 Nov 2016 | Review

Museum as an Offering: The Museum at Velankanni Basilica
Vaishnavi Ramanathan visits the Basilica of our Lady of Health.

19 Nov 2016

Experiencing the Experience House
Charu Maithani describes her immersive and interactive encounter with the works at Experience House at Khoj Studios, New Delhi.

18 Nov 2016

The Poet Curator Remembering the 'Lone Wolf' Artist
John Xaviers reexamines the curatorial premise of the exhibition on Jeram Patel at KNMA.

24 Oct 2016 | Review

The Artful Life of R. Vijay
Shreya Chaudhuri tracks Annapurna Garimella in her reading of the artistic collaboration of Waswo. X Waswo and R. Vijay, and the expansion of the contemporary miniature.

24 Oct 2016 | Review

Allured
Shuddhabrata Sengupta's expansive open letter to an early boyhood influence, the digital artist, Ashok Ahuja. At Gallery Espace, October 8, 2016

24 Oct 2016

Interview
Against the global backdrop of migration, Leonhard Emmerling and Kanika Kuthiala, curators of the exhibition "getting across", discuss the making of a transnational view on borders.

19 Oct 2016

Making a Case for Wonder
Rohini Devasher lights up the Bhau Daji Lad Museum with "Speculations from the Field". A review of the exhibition by Shaleen Wadhwana.

17 Oct 2016

Rethinking the Museum
The CSMVS in Mumbai confirms its engagement with a new kind of museological show with the present exhibition Conserving the Collection: The Caring Path for 5000 Years of our Art. A review by Gayatri Sinha

22 Sep 2016

Propositioning the World: Raqs Media Collective and the Shanghai Biennale
Maya Kovskaya in conversation with Raqs Media Collective on curating the 2016 Shanghai Biennale and how it fits into their curatorial practice.

19 Sep 2016 | Interview

Interview
With the upcoming show of Praneet Soi in Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, Charu Maithani discusses the inspiration, experiences and processes behind his works.

19 Sep 2016

Through the eyes of a Renaissance woman
Georgina MaddoxThe exhibition at the National Museum looks back at Alice Boner, a Swiss artist and scholar who chronicled India through her writings and art.

19 Sep 2016

Gulammohammed Sheikh and Geeta Kapur speak on the opening of the Jeram Patel retrospective at KNMA
01 Sep 2016

Interview
Adip Dutta meets Chittrovanu Mazumdar, the artist credited with dramatic, inventive installations that involve sound, light, photography, video and sculpture.

24 Aug 2016

'Husain's Raj Visions of Empire and Nation' by Sumathi Ramaswamy
Shreya Chaudhuri18 Aug 2016 | Review

In conversation with Bharti Kher
After opening an extensive solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Bharti Kher speaks to Gayatri Sinha in an extended interview, extrapolating on the many facets of her art practice.

01 Aug 2016 | Interview

Among India’s dominant artists of the 20th century, Syed Haider Raza (1922-2016) leaves a rich legacy. CC pays him a tribute.
29 Jul 2016

Examining the relation between a city as site and "an interventionist exhibition", Rattanamol Singh Johal reviews
Manifesta 11
16 Jul 2016

The Vanishing Pond near the Field:  A Curatorial Response to the inaugural MFA display of Shiv Nadar University
John Xaviers14 Jul 2016

The Catalogue Raisonné as a Critical Form: Review of 'Arc, Silt, Dive: the Works of Sheba Chhachhi' edited by Kumkum Sangari
Saloni Mathur13 Jul 2016

K G Subramanyan (1924-2016)
The passing of KG Subramanyan on June 29 carries with it the sense of the passing of an era. CC pays the artist a tribute.

06 Jul 2016

Sculpting With Gravity: the Himmat Shah Retrospective at KNMA
While reviewing the latest exhibition on artist Himmat Shah, Shukla Sawant endeavours to place his sculptural practice in the grand narrative of Indian modernism.

20 Jun 2016 | Review

Mariam Ghani interviewed by Meenakshi Thirukode
In conversation with Meenakshi Thirukode, Mariam Ghani talks about her recent series "Like Water from Stone". The artist offers ways to reimagine the history and future of sites in Afghanistan by bringing in the realm of politics into her work.

16 Jun 2016

Passages
Shanay Jhaveri reflects on film making in South Asia through the prism of Passages, his curatorial venture at the Dhaka Art Summit.

16 Jun 2016

As the Bhupen Khakhar retrospective plays out at the Tate Modern, curator Nada Raza speaks to Gayatri Sinha, on what attracted her to the artist, and the challenges that his work presents to the contemporary viewer.
08 Jun 2016

‘You Can’t Please All’ at Tate Modern
Geeta Kapur expands on her riposte to Jonathan Jones for CC, and turns the spotlight back on Bhupen Khakhar’s artistic ingenuity.

07 Jun 2016

Tarini Malik for Critical Collective interviews Isaac Julien on the occasion of his exhibition of Playtime: Kapital at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, curated by Cuahatemoc Medina and Amanda de la Garza (February 6 - July 31, 2016)
24 May 2016

An Anthology of Museums
At her showing of Museum Bhavan at KNMA, Dayanita Singh in a freewheeling conversation with Suryanandini Narain and Gayatri Sinha.

23 May 2016

'Painting and Photography at the Jaipur Court' edited by Giles Tillotson and Mrinalini Venkateswaran
Suryanandini Narain19 May 2016 | Review

A. A. Raiba (1922-2016)
With A. A. Raiba's demise, CC pays homage to the artist who braved the odds to undertake his artistic journey on his own terms.

09 May 2016

Mind the Gap
As a long time friend and colleague, Kanchi Mehta explores the journey which led to Dia Mehta Bhupal's first solo exhibition of conceptual photography at Gallery SKE, New Delhi.

03 May 2016 | Review

Museum treasures lost to apathy:
Great leap backward
CC examines the devastation at two leading natural history museums that has obliterated priceless objects collected over decades.

02 May 2016 | Report

Sites of Intervention in a City's Cultural Fabric: Public and Socially Engaged Art in Kolkata
Paula Sengupta in her essay, examines new kinds of engagement in art, which reflect on Kolkata's past and present histories.

21 Apr 2016

Ebrahim Alkazi: Directing Art
The Making of a Modern Indian Art World
Reviewed by Gayatri Sinha

20 Apr 2016

The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination
Ruchira Verma reviews the exhibition, setting the tone for the sequential history and visual narrative of Zoroastrianism and the Parsi community.

19 Apr 2016

An art movement to retain Venkatappa Art Gallery, the democratic public art space
The proposed takeover of Venkatappa Art Gallery by private interests and the rise of VAG Forum an artists’ protest initiative. The piece is contributed by Surekha, Sheela Gowda, Pushpamala N, Suresh Jayaram, Ayisha Abraham and others.

02 Apr 2016

Ecologising the ‘Human’
Ravi Agarwal photographer and director of Toxics Link, reflects on the Yamuna and the slew of issues that arise in the context of the Art of Living event on the river’s flood plains.

02 Apr 2016

Atoot-Dor : Unbroken Threads an exhibition of Banarasi brocade saris at home and in the World
Ridhi Khanna22 Mar 2016 | Review

At the Met Breuer inaugural, Meera Menezes on the exhibitions ‘Nasreen Mohamedi’ and the less successful ‘Unfinished’
21 Mar 2016 | Review

Deepika Sorabjee speaks to Desmond Lazaro of memory and history making in his present show at Gallery Chemould
21 Mar 2016 | Interview

Gayatri Sinha reviews two exhibitions at CSMVS – a lodestar in India’s state museum space
21 Mar 2016

On the eve of the opening of 'Nasreen Mohamedi' at the Met Breuer, Roobina Karode speaks to Critical Collective
24 Feb 2016 | Interview

Dhaka Diary
Meera Menezes lends a diaryist's view to the third edition of the Dhaka Art Summit

24 Feb 2016

Material Contexts
Gayatri Sinha responds to the use of found objects by Sheela Gowda, Benitha Perciyal and Sudarshan Shetty.

17 Feb 2016

What China?
Keith Wallace discusses (In)Direct Speech, China in Contemporary Art Discourse, Art Market, Curatorial Practice, and Creative Processes

15 Feb 2016

2016 Inhabitations
Given the increasing number of Biennales in the East, Verina Gfader speculates on video art and the geographies of movement for the medium, 2016 and beyond.

19 Jan 2016

Jeram Patel (1930-2016)
CC pays tribute to the eminent artist Jeram Patel.

19 Jan 2016

Corporate/Culture
Jaya Kanoria writes on Mumbai's new Piramal Museum and the city's tradition of corporate patronage and sponsorship of art.

14 Jan 2016

Take An Object, curated by Cara Manes at MoMA, on view through February 28, reviewed by Gayatri Sinha.
13 Jan 2016 | Review

On Museum Bhavan
Charu Maithani proposes a cinematic reading of Dayanita Singh’s Museum Bhavan, in nine mobile museums.

08 Jan 2016

Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America 1960-1980, at MoMA, reviewed by Gayatri Sinha
08 Jan 2016 | Review

On curating and critical writing since the 1990's: a conversation between Gayatri Sinha and Parul Dave Mukherji, supported by Art Matters, Raza Foundation
23 Dec 2015

Announcing the Umrao Singh Sher-Gil grant for Photography by Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation
21 Dec 2015

The Empire Strikes Back?
Zehra Jumabhoy reviews ‘Artist & Empire: Facing Britain’s Imperial Past’ at London’s Tate Britain.

21 Dec 2015

As the India Art Fair descends on the subcontinent, Meera Menezes quizzes Neha Kirpal on its hits and misses
21 Dec 2015

Ecological Ruminations: Ravi Agarwal
The exhibition 'Else, all will be still', is Ravi Agarwal’s second solo exhibition with the Guild. Amrita Gupta Singh reviews the exhibition at the new space of the gallery in Alibaug, (October 11 - December 2, 2015).

02 Dec 2015

Ajanta to London, Saris to Skirts: Tradition and Modernity in the Fabric of India
Mehreen Chida-Razvi reviews the seminar on The Fabric of India exhibition at the V&A Museum and the Courtauld.

23 Nov 2015

Worlds at War: Two Artists set the Stage
Deepika Sorabjee reviews recent works by Gigi Scaria and Anant Joshi.

19 Nov 2015

Aspiring Visions: A few notes from the third edition of the Delhi Photo Festival 2015 by Rahul Dev
19 Nov 2015

"This magnificent show leads the viewer into seeing Indian fabric through a glass somewhat darkly."
Virginia Whiles reviews 'The Fabric of India' exhibition at the V&A Museum.

19 Nov 2015

Mrinalini Venkateswaran signals a new exhibition, 'Painting and Photography at the Jaipur Court'
17 Nov 2015

CC interviews Jitish Kallat on his new public sculpture, 'Here After Here After Here'
16 Nov 2015 | Interview

Shamshad Husain (1946 - 2015)
"Face in the crowd" by Suneet Chopra

29 Oct 2015

Re-contextualizing ‘Contextual Modernism’
Rahul Dev reviews The Art of Santiniketan: Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar Baij, Benode Behari Mukherjee and Rabindranath Tagore at DAG Modern.

21 Oct 2015 | Review

A Paper Rebellion?
Urvashi Butalia writes on the recent meltdown within the Sahitya Akademi.

20 Oct 2015 | Essay

Prabuddha Dasgupta 1956-2012
Suryanandini Narain“When I’m photographing people, for instance….what I really love about it is the transience, the impermanence of it all at any point of time.”

13 Oct 2015 | Review

In the Name of the Goddess, Tapati Guha-Thakurta’s recent book, reviewed by Gayatri Sinha.
08 Oct 2015 | Review

Revisiting Beauty
Exhibition of photographs by JJ Valaya at Threshold Gallery.

21 Sep 2015

Krishna as Shrinathji
"Gates of the Lord: The Tradition of Krishna Painting" turns the spotlight on the Pushtimarg sect

21 Sep 2015

"The objects choose me, I don’t choose them."
In preparation of her exhibition at Vadehra Art Gallery, Arpita Singh speaks to Gayatri Sinha.

19 Sep 2015 | Interview

39 Steps
The announcement by the Minister for Culture, Government of India on the 'modernization' of 39 institutions has evoked a strong response from Indian scholars and intellectuals. CC lists the 39 institutions, their founding fathers and their significance in India's cultural history.

15 Sep 2015

Changing contemporary art landscape: Large scale art events in south Asia
Charu Maithani speaks to leading promoters in South Asia and analyses the effect on the ground.

08 Sep 2015 | Report

CC interviews Sudarshan Shetty
In July eminent artist Sudarshan Shetty was named curator for the third Kochi Muziris Biennale. Shetty speaks to CC of his own practice, early thoughts on Kochi, and how the notion of time is critical to his understanding of art.

17 Aug 2015 | Interview

Shifting Locus, Shifting Focus
Meera Menezes reviews My East is Your West at the 56th Venice Biennale

17 Aug 2015

In conversation with Richard Blurton
12 Aug 2015 | Interview

"Picabia Bothers Me Every Morning": A Conversation with Atul Dodiya
16 Jul 2015 | Interview

Being Numerous: The Built, the Builder and ways of Building
Deeksha Nath16 Jul 2015 | Review

“Life is an adventure and adventures are hard work” : Agnes Martin
Gayatri Sinha09 Jul 2015 | Review

“Partition is what we are living even now” : A Conversation with Nalini Malani
19 Jun 2015 | Interview

CC Interviews Dayanita Singh
15 Jun 2015 | Interview

CC Interviews Kiran Nadar
20 May 2015 | Interview

From Bengal to Burma...and Bangladesh in Between
Paula Sengupta20 May 2015 | Essay

Glitch and Error: Implications in Aesthetics and Communication
Charu Maithani11 May 2015 | Essay

Nauras: The Many Arts of the Deccan- A Review
Deeksha Nath15 Apr 2015 | Review

4092015
Parul Dave Mukherji14 Apr 2015 | Review

Interview with Vivan Sundaram on the making of 409 Ramkinkars
Meera Menezes14 Apr 2015 | Interview

Interview with Jitish Kallat
Gayatri Sinha07 Apr 2015 | Interview

A tryst with time
Meera Menezes18 Mar 2015 | Review

'In Order To Join' at CSMVS and Gallery MMB, Mumbai
Deepika Sorabjee10 Mar 2015 | Review

Reflections on FRACTURE: Indian Textiles, New Directions at the Devi Art Foundation
Mayank Mansingh Kaul09 Mar 2015 | Essay

In conversation with Barry Schwabsky, Deborah Swallow and Julian Stallabrass
Gayatri Sinha17 Feb 2015 | Interview

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014
Gigi Scaria01 Feb 2015 | Interview

"Catching up" to the World: Positioning the India Art Fair
Christiane Brosius01 Feb 2015 | Essay

In conversation with Inti Guerreros and Cosmin Costinas
Gayatri Sinha05 Jan 2015 | Interview

Atul Dodiya's 7000 Museums: A Project for the Republic of India
Gayatri Sinha05 Jan 2015 | Review

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014
Deepika Sorabjee05 Jan 2015 | Review

Art After the End of Art
Jens Hoffman29 Dec 2014 | Essay