World Mother at Central Park
Gayatri 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 2022
Virginia 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 Kind
Artist 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 India
Debanjana 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 2022
Virginia 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 Burnt
Ankan 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 archive
Zahra 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 Delhi
Mallika 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

Exhibition Review: The Passerby
Sukanya Baskar‘A golden period of street photography in India’; comes alive through works by Raghu Rai, Pablo Bartholomew, Sooni Taraporevala and Ketaki Sheth featured in Photoink’s latest exhibition.

20 Jul 2022 | Review

Women and the Nation in Pushpamala N
Mallika VisvanathanPushapamala speaks about symbols like Mother India as well as the play with the tableau and the archive in her work.

20 Jul 2022 | Interview

Under the Aegis of Poetry: Art Beyond Language
Arushi VatsCurated by Zeenat Nagri, the exhibition What Cannot Otherwise Be Said welds poetic imagination with resistance.

20 Jul 2022 | Review

Readings on the Temple: Review of Marg's 75th Anniversary Volume
Pika GhoshThis review focuses on a volume of Marg's archival essays on the evolution of temple-building, iconography and worship in India.

20 Jul 2022 | Review

Human Hauntings in the Art of Somnath Hore
Brishti ModakA review of Somnath Hore's centenary exhibition, curated by K.S. Radhakrishnan, which perfectly captures the magnitude of the artist’s oeuvre and contribution as a pedagogue.

20 Jul 2022 | Review

Drawing as Practice: On Modes of Inhabiting Line and Surface
Najrin IslamIn the exhibition Drawn from Practice II, held at Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata, the act of drawing is addressed as a performative medium unto itself.

24 Jun 2022 | Review

Today is Better than Yesterday: In Conversation with Surekha
Mallika VisvanathanSurekha speaks about her recent works displayed at 1Shanthiroad, Bengaluru, made in response to the feelings of stagnation and loss which characterized the first waves of Covid-19.

24 Jun 2022 | Interview

A Philatelic Journey through Babasaheb’s Life
Sukanya BaskarA variety of ephemera from the postal world such as stamps, first day covers and information brochures enrich the visual representation of Dr. BR. Ambedkar and his public persona.

24 Jun 2022 | Review

The Life and Times of India in the Nineteenth Century
Aradhana ThakurAn exhibition on company paintings at the National Museum, Delhi, brings together works that explore themes of life in the everyday, portraits of kings, princes, and the natural world.

24 Jun 2022 | Review

Pieces of Home: In conversation with Tanmoy Samanta
The artist discusses his latest series of works created in the midst of the pandemic, which reconsider the ideas of home and earthly existence, using pigment, rice paper and shape-shifting collages.

23 May 2022 | Interview

Fugitive Memories: Visualizing Tibetan Liberation Struggles
Arushi VatsA review of Shadow Circus, a project which sheds light on a lesser-known phase of the Tibetan resistance against Chinese occupation through personal and familial archival practices.

23 May 2022 | Review

Scrolling through the Remnants: Ganesh Haloi's The Architectonics of Form
Brishti ModakCreated with Chinese ink sticks and watercolours on porous Japanese scroll paper canvases, Ganesh Haloi's latest series of works bring together his long-term interest in naturalism and abstraction.

23 May 2022 | Review

Current and Future Imprints in Jaipur’s Textile Landscape
Mrinalini 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 Waves
Atul 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 Wallace
Photographer 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 2019
Capsule reviews.

29 Nov 2019 | Review

CC shorts
Exhibition reviews

09 Jan 2019

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

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

Books received
A compilation of short book reviews.

27 Aug 2018 | Review

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

09 Aug 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

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

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

15 May 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where there is no archive
S 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

20 Oct 2015 | Essay

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

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