Have Our Public Institutions Aided Open Discourse around the Visual Arts?
Critical CollectiveIn a second edition, reputed Indian gallerists speak of a non-Eurocentric, South Asian model for art practices, and the extent to which the Indian market and institutions support the arts ecosystem.

23 Aug 2024 | Interview

Intertwined Journeys: Handprints of Gulammohammed Sheikh
Ravikumar KashiThe first half of a two-part retrospective at Gallery Sumukha explores the many phases of Sheikh’s experiments with printmaking and its ties with his painting practice.

23 Aug 2024 | Review

A Sunset of Emptiness and Power: Amitava Das and Mohan Samant at KNMA
Shankar TripathiThe two ongoing retrospectives make us aware of abstract physiognomies in precise anatomies - some ghostly as apparitions, some athletic, playing with what is tangible.

23 Aug 2024 | Review

It Runs in the Family: Revisiting the Art of Rustom Siodia and Cumi Dallas
Neerja DeodharA look at the Parsi father-daughter duo’s contribution to Indian landscape painting and portraiture and their legacies within the Bombay art world.

23 Aug 2024 | Review

Whimsical Fantasies and Historical Realities
Namrata GhoshBringing new life to archival photographs through the vibrancy of traditional miniature painting, What the Camera Didn’t See encourages its viewers to revisit the static nature of images.

24 Jul 2024 | Review

Inky Trails: The Adventures of Abu Abraham
Pinaki DeA recent exhibition paid tribute to the legendary cartoonist on his birth centenary, through works which mirror the complex politics of his era, but also speak to the frissons in contemporary times.

24 Jul 2024 | Review

Santali Archives and Cultural Heritage: Echoes from the Past
Rahi SorenA growing digital collection of rare and endangered Santali literature from the 19th century provides valuable insights into the community's history and traditions.

24 Jul 2024 | Essay

Revisiting the Legacy of Jagdish Swaminathan
Radhika SharmaThe release of a new publication on Jagdish Swaminathan offers a fresh opportunity to raise questions around the artist and institution-builder's vision and contribution to Indian art.

24 Jul 2024 | Essay

Galleries in India - Scaling Up
Critical CollectiveAs the Indian art world increases its footprint, CC speaks to five gallerists to assess their changing priorities in recent years.

26 Jun 2024 | Interview

Chander Haat: Building Community through Environmental Art
Mrinalini VasudevanRecipient of the inaugural Vivan Sundaram Grant for Installation Art, this artist collective uses site-specific projects to engage with local ecology, migration, living traditions and knowledge.

26 Jun 2024 | Essay

Centenary Tribute to Mohan Samant
Umara Zainab and Vasudha ChatterjeeRevisiting the legacy of the modernist painter Mohan Samant, known for his unique and ambiguous painterly language and early experiments with mixed media.

26 Jun 2024 | Essay

Thresholds of Becoming: 16 Artists Try To Step Across
Sandhya BordewekarA recent exhibition at Ahmedabad's Conflictorium Museum delves into the various 'thresholds' that mark artistic practice, urban history and memories of home.

26 Jun 2024 | Review

Karbala and Other Symbols-M.F. Husain
Gayatri SinhaHusain's Karbala, bearing its message of persecution and painted during the Gulf War returns with extraordinary prescience, in its staging at the Venice biennale.

23 May 2024 | Review

Entangled Pasts, 1768-Now: Art, Colonialism and Change
Deeksha NathA recent exhibition at London’s Royal Academy explores the legacies of Britain’s imperial past, and the role art played in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement and resistance.

23 May 2024 | Review

Every Side of the Story: Of Detours, Digressions and Convergences
Damini KulkarniGulammohammed Sheikh's latest exhibition reimagines the traditional form of the kavaad to create a multi-dimensional world of allegory that speaks to our times.

23 May 2024 | Review

Imagining Liminality: The Flux at India’s Cultural Thresholds
Neerja DeodharThe unsaid and the hidden-across architecture, history and time-assume centre stage at an exhibition hosted by Mumbai’s Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre.

23 May 2024 | Review

For One to Be So Many: The Many Semblances of K.G. Subramanyan
Sneha BiswasFeaturing over 200 works spanning seven decades, the retrospective-scale exhibition celebrates the artistic genius of the modernist, K. G. Subramanyan on the occasion of his birth centenary year.

23 May 2024 | Review

Sahmat: Moments in Collapse
Umara ZainabThe exhibition is an urgent intervention for critical thought, an exercise in remembering and creating a distinct point and space to force us to imagine a different future.

23 May 2024 | Review

Feminism in Flight: Remembering Gogi Saroj Pal
Meera MenezesCelebrating Gogi Saroj Pal (1945-2024), a feminist painter, printmaker and sculptor, who mined mythology and social history in recasting the female form.

24 Apr 2024 | Review

A Conversation on Caste, Labour and Art with Vikrant Bhise
Critical CollectiveThe young Bombay-based artist discusses his engagement with Ambedkar’s teachings and the stories of the Dalit community depicted in his paintings.

24 Apr 2024 | Interview

Lipstick Stories: ‘Middle-Class’ India Gazes at Itself
Neerja DeodharRoshan Chhabria’s latest solo show employs observational humour and a kitschy style to

reflect on the common man’s aspirations and insecurities.

24 Apr 2024 | Review

Centenary Tribute to F.N Souza (1924-2002)
Critical CollectiveOn the evolution of the works of F.N Souza and how they stand within the context of contemporary sensibilities.

24 Apr 2024 | Essay

Conversations with Three Contemporary South Asian Women Artists
Namrata Ghosh and Radhika SharmaAnoli Perera (from Sri Lanka), Bushra Waqas Khan (from Pakistan), and Pooja Duwal (from Nepal) reflect on their practice.

25 Mar 2024 | Interview

Situating Raghu Rai in A Thousand Lives
A review of the master lensman's latest retrospective at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, which focuses on his photojournalistic frames and images of important personalities, captured between 1965 and 2005

25 Mar 2024 | Review

A Centenary Tribute to K.G. Subramanyan
Vasudha ChatterjeeRemembering one of 20th-century India's most prolific and prominent modernists, who was a renowned artist, writer, teacher and institution builder.

25 Mar 2024 | Essay