Interweaving the Historical and Contemporary in Kallol Datta’s Fabrics

Mekhala SinghalVol IV: Truths, Half-Truths, Half-Lies explores how Datta revisits medieval Korean and Japanese clothing to highlight the role of textiles in shaping the rights and identities of marginalized groups.

25 Jul 2025 | Review

Revisiting Mrinal Sen’s Chorus of Street Voices

Mrinalini VasudevanIn Speech Acts, Madhuja Mukherjee’s video installations and Amritah Sen’s illustrations place Mrinal Sen's 1970s films on Calcutta in dialogue with political anxieties in contemporary Bengal.

25 Jul 2025 | Review

Paradise Regained with V.N. Jyothi Basu
Shankar TripathiIn ‘The Outlier’, Jyothi Basu’s art brings to life electrifying surreal landscapes, otherworldly objects, and a unique new order relevant to human experience.

25 Jul 2025 | Review

The Middle East Effect
Critical CollectiveGallerists Prateek Raja, Peter Nagy, Ashish Anand, and Shireen Gandhy discuss the rising influence of Indian contemporary art in the Middle East, a new hub in the global art scene.

25 Jul 2025 | Interview

An Epic March - Krishen Khanna at Hundred
Gayatri SinhaThe most enduring of the Bombay Progressives, Khanna is also an astute commentator on the human condition.

04 Jul 2025 | Essay

A Cosmopolitan Imagination in Raqs Media Collective's Cavalcade
Amreeta DasThis delirious mediascape of carnivalesque togetherness blurs the boundaries between the human and non-human to look towards an inclusive, hopeful future, amidst a planetary crisis.

25 Jun 2025 | Review

Review: Material as Metaphors
Namrata GhoshKolkata's restored Currency Building hosts an exhibition that highlights the significance of materiality in a range of works, engaging with themes like ecological crises, labour, caste and gender.

25 Jun 2025 | Review

Shaktirupa: Affective Power of Manuscripts and Miniatures
Arundhati BhanAn ongoing exhibition at the LD Museum exhibits texts and images where the Devi is an embodiment of metaphysical principles like power (shakti), wisdom, and cosmic order.

25 Jun 2025 | Review

Cabinets of Colonized Curiosities
Ornella D'SouzaA Treasure of Life marks DAG’s third major show on Company Paintings and revisits its representations of botanical, architectural, and ethnographic images from a contemporary perspective.

25 Jun 2025 | Review

Review: (Un)layering the Future Past of South Asia
Shasti LowtonAn exhibition at SOAS, London with 26 young artists from the subcontinent, who engage with issues that mark its troubled political churn and the lingering legacy of Empire.

23 May 2025 | Review

Charting her own Cultural Map: The Legacy of Shanu Lahiri
Mrinalini VasudevanAn early modernist from Bengal, three recent exhibitions on Lahiri have thrown new light on her individual career path in her role as an arts educator, activist and archivist.

23 May 2025 | Essay

Gagan Singh and the Art of Subversive Intimacy
Arunava BanerjeeIn this conversation piece, Singh traces his artistic evolution, its irreverent engagement with form, and the paradoxes of circulating disruptive art in galleries and algorithm-driven platforms.

23 May 2025 | Interview

The Anxious Smile in Vicky Roy’s Photographs
Shankar TripathiEven as Roy’s images of childhood are often viewed through the lens of warmth and resilience, a closer look at them points to the systemic inequality that shapes and limits these young lives.

23 May 2025 | Review

In Conversation with Madhuban Mitra and Manas Bhattacharya
Critical CollectiveThe Kolkata-based artist duo speak about their engagement with memory, history, industry, labour and the material conditions of visual technology through photography and video.

25 Apr 2025 | Interview

In Pallavi Paul's Gaze, Love and Breath Make the World Go Round
Neerja DeodharPaul documents the power of solidarity and care amid contagion and death in her latest show, How Love Moves.

25 Apr 2025 | Review

On Reena Saini Kallat's Cartographies of the Unseen
Anindo Sen in conversation with Tasneem Zakaria MehtaThe curator of Kallat's latest show talks about how the artist's works fit in within the context of the Bhau Daji Lad Museum and speak to histories of migration and colonial rule.

25 Apr 2025 | Interview

The Indian Pictorialist: Dhirajlal R. Mody (1910-1990)
Mekhala SinghalA family archive has thrown light on the talents of this pioneering 20th-century photographer, highlighting his images of working-class life and his contributions to the Photographic Society of India.

25 Apr 2025 | Review

Ashok Ahuja Reprogrammes the Matrix
Sachin SharmaIn his latest exhibition of digital artworks, Ahuja attempts to find moments of fluidity and flux within the highly programmed matrices within everyday life.

25 Apr 2025 | Review

Probir Gupta's Memorial to Migrant Lives
Mrinalini VasudevanThe artist's latest solo exhibition, Migrants in the Museum, weaves stories of marginalized communities into histories and institutions that have traditionally discriminated against them.

25 Mar 2025 | Review

Transformative Pedagogies at the J.J. School of Art
Sarang SharmaA review of the DAG exhibition, Shifting Visions: Teaching Modern Art at the Bombay School, which foregrounds this historic institution as a site of contested negotiations with modernism.

25 Mar 2025 | Review

Britto Arts Trust: A Spectrum of Shared Practices
Critical CollectiveThe Dhaka-based artist-run non-profit collective speaks about their collaborative practices and community-driven projects within and outside Bangladesh, that engage with socio-political themes.

25 Mar 2025 | Interview

Moments of Intersectionality at India Design 2025
Radhika SharmaThe brands and displays at this year’s event, revolving around close interactions between art and design, prioritized sustainability and craft revivalism over commerce and visual appeal.

25 Mar 2025 | Review

Review: Modular Waltz
Inspired by some of Chandigarh’s iconic brutalist buildings, Avantika Bawa pays homage to architecture in its barest forms through works that lie at the intersection between drawing and sculpture.

25 Mar 2025 | Review

A World to Be at Home In
Gayatri SinhaThe Gulammohammed Sheikh retrospective, Of Worlds within Worlds, presents works from different phases of his career that highlight his expansive, syncretic views of world and Indian history.

13 Feb 2025 | Review

Resistance and Resilience: New Works by Shilpa Gupta and Gauri Gill
Shankar TripathiWhile Gupta’s exhibition turns to State interrogation, surveillance and censorship, Gill pays tribute to the ingenious protests staged by Indian farmers against the government in 2020.

13 Feb 2025 | Review

Asim Waqif: Working within the Institutional Frame
Gayatri SinhaWaqif discusses his recent projects at the Mattress Factory and Hayward Gallery, the Islamic Arts Biennale and the India Art Fair, while critiquing the systemic bureaucracy in art institutions.

13 Feb 2025 | Interview

Prajakta Potnis’s Lucid Nightmares of a Dystopian Reality
Anindo SenPotnis’s latest exhibition, Where should the birds fly after the last sky?, reflects a world broken by the impact of genocide, socio-economic disparities, toxic politics and climate change.

13 Feb 2025 | Review

Lie Machine: In Conversation with Moonis Ijlal
Arundhati BhanHistorian turned artist Moonis Ijlal’s debut solo exhibition, Lie Machine, explores the pervasive presence of media and technology in our everyday lives.

13 Feb 2025 | Interview

Jayeeta Chatterjee: Women at Work
Critical CollectiveThe artist, who is a winner of this year’s Asia Arts Future Award, speaks about female subjectivity, community among working women using haptic materials like wood block prints and Nakshi kantha.

13 Feb 2025 | Interview