Review of DAG’s The Babu & The Bazaar
Meera MenezesDAG’s exhibition explores Calcutta’s history and culture through the prism of oil paintings for wealthy patrons and popular art created around Kalighat in the 19^th and early 20^th centuries.

25 May 2023 | Review

Retrospectives on Pablo Picasso and Faith Ringgold at the Musée Picasso
Virginia WhilesOn the 50th death anniversary of the artist, Musée Picasso calls for a reflection on Picasso's relationship with African art while juxtaposing his work with the art of Faith Ringgold.

25 May 2023 | Review

Aziz Hazara and Soumya Sankar Bose at Experimenter, Kolkata
Shan BhattacharyaOn the work of two lens-based artists whose art draws from different yet deeply personal experiences which shaped their lives.

25 May 2023 | Review

Review of Rhizome: Tracing Ecocultural Identities
Neerja DeodharThe curatorial vision behind the exhibition, and its sprawling layout across a museum, invite the visitor to rethink and deepen their relationship with nature and ecology.

25 May 2023 | Review

Review of The Planetary King: Humayun Padshah
Umara ZainabEbba Koch's new work provides a holistic picture of the oft-maligned Mughal emperor, Humayun, through a study of his interest, beliefs, ideology and cultural contributions.

25 May 2023 | Review

Tension and Opposition in Performance: Nikhil Chopra
Critical CollectiveOver a six-month period, Nikhil Chopra worked in a studio in Gallery Continua, Paris, creating an interchangeability between the body and landscape.

25 Apr 2023 | Essay

Third Eye of Shiva and World of Kali: A Review of Mul Mathi
Neerja DeodharCombining various textiles and crafting techniques, the 22 artworks created by artisans of the Chanakya Atelier and School of Craft have captured the aesthetic intricacies of Manu and Madhvi Parekh’s

25 Apr 2023 | Review

On 1Shanthiroad: In Conversation with Suresh Jayaram
Mallika VisvanathanAs 1Shanthiroad Studio and Gallery completes 20 years, Suresh Jayaram speaks about the nature of the space and its future in a post-pandemic world.

25 Apr 2023 | Interview

Pushpamala N. and "the Artistic Ways of Viewing the Sacred"
Annapurna GarimellaThe book is a collection of articles reflecting on Pushpamala N.’s reimagination of popular images within the framework of nationalism and motherhood.

25 Apr 2023 | Review

Vivan Sundaram (1943-2023)
Gayatri SinhaSundaram’s disruptive and critically agile artistic responses defined him as the face of a secular position in an increasingly divided polity.

31 Mar 2023 | Essay

Notes from the Desert: Historic Redressal at the 2023 Sharjah Biennial
Gayatri 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 Museum
Virginia 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 Scaria
Sohorpem 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 Present
Amrita 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 History
Gayatri 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-100
Gayatri 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 Threads
Nadia 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 Revisitation
Gayatri 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 Rituals
Critical 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 Point
Hemant 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 Review
Gayatri 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 Home
Bharati 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 Haloi
Namrata 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 Artists
Arunava 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, 2022
Sohorpem 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 N
Gayatri 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 Pigment
Gayatri 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 Song
Shaon 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 India
Neha 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 Maps
Pawanpreet 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 Patterns
Nadia 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 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

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

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

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

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
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

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

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

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

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