The Bengal Biennale Debut in Santiniketan
Soumik Nandy MajumdarA look at the highlights from the inaugural edition of the Biennale and the new arts spaces it has opened up, beyond Kala Bhavana, in Tagore’s campus town.

26 Dec 2024 | Review

Photographic Archives and Forced Migration
Rituparna RoyDayanita Singh’s Museum of Tanpura, Paula Sengupta and Sujoy Das’s Into Exile: The Tibetan Predicament and Pradip Das’s Hridaypur engage with archives of memories and historical loss.

26 Dec 2024 | Review

Mithu Sen on I Am Ol Chiki
Mrinalini VasudevanThe artist discusses her latest public art project, created for the Bengal Biennale Santiniketan edition, that aims to revive Santali language, script and culture.

26 Dec 2024 | Interview

Reconfiguring the Human Visage
Arundhati BhanCurated by Yashodhara Dalmia, Gallery Threshold’s multi-artist exhibition, ‘Trans-formative Vision’, navigates the landscape of figurative art across artistic, social and cultural histories.

26 Dec 2024 | Review

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