Notes from the Desert: Historic Redressal at the 2023 Sharjah BiennialGayatri SinhaDrawing upon colonial histories of violence and oppression, the Sharjah biennial creates networks of shared narratives among artists of the global south.24 Mar 2023 | Review
The South Asia Gallery at the Manchester MuseumVirginia WhilesThis gallery becomes the first permanent space in the UK to celebrate subcontinental art history and the culture of the South Asian diaspora.24 Mar 2023 | Essay
Conversation with Gigi ScariaSohorpem KazingmeiThe artist highlights the centrality of city landscapes in his work, while speaking of his experiments with printmaking as part of his artistic process.24 Mar 2023 | Interview
The Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum: A Palimpsest of the Past and PresentAmrita Gupta SinghMumbai: A City Through Objects - 101 Stories from the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum allows for an exploration of the city of Bombay/Mumbai through the lives of several objects in the musuem.24 Mar 2023 | Review
Golconda-Hyderabad : Imaging HistoryGayatri SinhaIn a project spread over several years, Dr Hans Winterberg and Thomas Luttge document the decaying historical monuments of Hyderabad.24 Mar 2023 | Review
Notes from Paris: Raza-100Gayatri SinhaGayatri Sinha writes on Raza-100, the showing at the prestigious Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the manifold views on the making of his legacy.28 Feb 2023 | Review
Invisible ThreadsNadia NooreyezdanMycelial Legacies brings together works by 30 women alumna of the Baroda School, allowing us to trace their impact and make connections that might otherwise have remained hidden.28 Feb 2023 | Review
Arpita Singh: A RevisitationGayatri SinhaIn a late career cameo Arpita Singh returns to Vadehra Art Gallery with paintings that turn away from her concerns as citizen-artist to a contemplation of an uncertain, fragmented mapping.24 Feb 2023 | Review
Lalitha Lajmi (1932-2023): Family RitualsCritical CollectiveA tribute to the late Lalitha Lajmi, self-taught artist whose paintings speak of tenuous family relationships.24 Feb 2023 | Essay
Book Review: The Vanishing PointHemant SareenThe Vanishing Point, edited by Rashmi Devi Sawhney, brings together filmmakers, theorists, and moving image artists to trace the peripatetic afterlife of celluloid in India.24 Feb 2023 | Review
Silent Seasons: A ReviewGayatri SinhaBuilding on her previous engagements with environmental change and the age of the anthropocene, Vibha Galhotra's latest work foregrounds an apocalyptic vision of the plight of the last man standing.25 Jan 2023 | Review
A Review of Postcards from HomeBharati ChaturvediThrough her on project, Manisha Gera Baswani documents stories of Partition from artists who trace their roots to India and Pakistan.25 Jan 2023 | Review
On Nature and Abstraction: An Interview with Ganesh HaloiNamrata GhoshThe artist talks about how his early life and experiences greatly influenced his practice.25 Jan 2023 | Interview
Media / Materiality / Comics: Conversations with Three Graphic ArtistsArunava BanerjeeThe author interviews three artists on the potential of comics to generate different trajectories for art, media and reportage.25 Jan 2023 | Interview
Kochi Biennale.. a decade later, a work in progress?Gayatri SinhaThe recent storm within the Kochi Muziris Biennale raises the question, is the event too big to fail?20 Dec 2022
Kochi Student Biennale, 2022Sohorpem KazingmeiThe 2022 Kochi Students’ Biennale finds itself in the throes of ‘process’. Where does it lead? 20 Dec 2022 | Review
The Opening of the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP): Interview with L NGayatri SinhaAltering the museum skyline in Bengaluru, MAP draws on a rich personal collection to stage new narratives in art history. 20 Dec 2022
how many songs from a single note?Shaunak MahbubaniShaunak Mahbubani interviews artist, Rah Naqvi about her recently closed exhibition, how many songs from a single note? 20 Dec 2022 | Interview
Sheetal Gattani: Flying Below the Radar, with 50 Layers of PigmentGayatri SinhaThe haptic processes that Gattani employs on painted surfaces lend her work a tantalizing depth and luminosity.24 Nov 2022
Stories of Resistance from the Margins: Bani Abidi’s The SongShaon BasuAbidi's new body of work speaks of global dispossession and homelessness, and the toxic masculinity at the heart of the crisis. 24 Nov 2022 | Review
What’s Going Wrong with Thanjavur’s Chola and Maratha Legacies?Even as cinema screens light up to Chola supremacy, their material heritage needs urgent attention.24 Nov 2022 | Report
Drawing Dissent: The Evolution of Editorial Cartooning in IndiaNeha YadavWith their potential to speak truth to power, political cartoons in the print media represent the last stand in a severely compromised media landscape.22 Nov 2022 | Essay
A Great Friend of India: Robert Skelton (1929-2022)Gulammohammed SheikhFrom their first meeting at the V&A in the 1960s, Gulam Sheikh reminisces about the legendary museum curator and scholar of Indian art, with whom he shared a six-decade-long friendship.25 Oct 2022
Reimagining the Mahad Satyagraha in the Age of Google MapsPawanpreet KaurRajyashri Goody’s Is the water chavdar? explores the relationship between water and caste with a spirit of of defiance.25 Oct 2022 | Review
Blurring Boundaries, Revealing PatternsNadia NooreyezdanAyesha Sultana’s latest show, Making Visible, offers a quiet interrogation of form and space across different mediums.25 Oct 2022 | Review
Infinity: Continuity Interwoven Chitra MaheshA review of the recent show in Chennai titled Infinity: Continuity Interwoven, in which artists present a synthesis of traditional handicrafts and contemporary aesthetics.25 Oct 2022 | Review
World Mother at Central ParkGayatri SinhaAn encounter with Bharti Kher’s 'Ancestor', a large public sculpture installed and unveiled at the southeast entrance to New York’s Central Park, September 2022.27 Sep 2022 | Essay
Lyon Biennale 2022Virginia WhilesA dense show of experimental artworks, the 16th Lyon Biennale reveals a fascinating story of inter-cultural relevance. Virginia Whiles' review with an Asia focus.27 Sep 2022 | Review
Resistance of the Everyday KindArtist Orijit Sen speaks with Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi about satire and resistance over time and how new avenues of circulation such as Instagram have altered his approach to art making.26 Sep 2022 | Interview
Comics, Cartoons and the Politics of Censorship in Digital IndiaDebanjana NayekGranting a substantial amount of liberty to cartoonists to create and share their work with a large audience, digital viewership also generates new forms of censorship and bullying.26 Sep 2022 | Essay
Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles 2022Virginia WhilesFrom a wealth of ideas and images - on awarded entries, photo books, ecology and the female avante garde - Virginia Whiles presents a sweeping overview.23 Aug 2022 | Review
Shahidul Alam: Singed but not BurntAnkan KaziThe exhibition which covers four decades of Shahidul Alam’s career demonstrates how the photographer-activist’s body of work has produced new conditions of visibility for Bangladesh.23 Aug 2022 | Review
Unearthing histories - a critical engagement with the archiveZahra AmiruddinEvent, Memory, Metaphor ongoing at Tarq, lingers between political and personal narratives that influence the act of remembering.23 Aug 2022 | Review
CC Shorts: Three Group Exhibitions in DelhiMallika VisvanathanThe month of August in Delhi saw three group exhibitions that sought to express and explore the diverse personal and political ethos of the participating artists.23 Aug 2022 | Review
Current and Future Imprints in Jaipur’s Textile LandscapeMrinalini VasudevanOn the hand-block printing industry that has grown around Jaipur, the problems that plague the artisans and recent government and private initiatives working towards its revival and preservation.23 May 2022
Walking with the WavesAtul Dodiya speaks to Gayatri Sinha about his watercolours on display at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, which reveal his responses to the pandemic and his views on asceticism, nature and art history.25 Apr 2022 | Interview
In Conversation with Rajesh Vora and Keith WallacePhotographer Rajesh Vora and curator Keith Wallace on the show 'Everyday Monuments' at Surrey Art Gallery, Canada, which maps the phenomenon of sculpted water tanks on the roofs of Punjabi households.25 Apr 2022 | Interview
CC Shorts | December 2019Capsule reviews.29 Nov 2019 | Review
Modern LoveThe Barbican’s Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde parallels modern art with modern love. A review by Kathryn Lloyd.27 Nov 2018
The Visual Economy of Picture PostcardsAmrita Gupta Singh on the visual and literary aspects of the turn of the 20th century postcards in the exhibition Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai.25 Sep 2018
CommentaryOn the recent arrest and detention of Shahidul Alam in Dhaka. Responses by artists, and an appeal by SAHMAT.09 Aug 2018
Graphic TestimoniesIn 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 dotsMeera Menezes explores Dreamtime and other myths in the art of Australia’s indigenous artists at NGMA, Delhi.17 Jul 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
Class CrisisRecent events at the School of Arts and Aesthetics reflects the shrinking space for liberal education in India. By Amrita Chakravarty10 Apr 2018
Colour-stills of an Alternate ModernismNadia Nooreyezdan reviews the ongoing retrospective of Raghubir Singh’s work at The Met Breuer, New York.21 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
ReviewIn 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
FABRIK - On the Circulation of Data, Goods and PeopleDeepika 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
T J Demos speaks to Gayatri SinhaOn the idea of the global and the apocalypse of migration in a shrinking world.12 Apr 2017
Where there is no archiveS A KrishnanSarover 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
1 among 100One among the hundred artists at the Shanghai biennale curated by Raqs Media Collective, Verina Gfader presents a poetic and personal view.15 Dec 2016
AlluredShuddhabrata Sengupta's expansive open letter to an early boyhood influence, the digital artist, Ashok Ahuja. At Gallery Espace, October 8, 201624 Oct 2016
Materialising the Unthought Known: Reflections on the Work of Anish Kapoor by Christopher Bollas
Navigating Nation, Signifying Sikhism: The Work of Arpana Caur by Manav Ratti
The Santiniketan School of Art by Benode Behari Mukherjee
Beyond the Cross of Stardom: Dilip Kumar in the 1960s by Sayandeb Chowdhury
Temporality, Travel and Gender Politics in Satyajit Ray’s 1960s Films by Rochona Majumdar
