Bharti Kher’s Alchemies at the Yorkshire Sculpture ParkManmeet K. WaliaBharti Kher’s major solo exhibition, engaging with identity, materiality and the evolving role of sculpture in contemporary art, stands tall in the midst of racial turmoil in the United Kingdom.24 Sep 2024 | Review
“Women Can’t Carry Easels”Arundhati BhanThe ongoing exhibition, Of Spaces of Their Own, at Akar Prakar, New Delhi, braids together the modernist legacies of a range of 20th-century women artists in post-independence India.24 Sep 2024 | Interview
Curating Nalini Malani: The Fragility of TimeRadhika SharmaPuja Vaish discusses unseen works from Nalini Malani’s early oeuvre in the 1960s and ’70s, revealing interdisciplinary experiments and socio-political engagements that carry contemporary resonances.24 Sep 2024 | Interview
Joya Mukerjee Logue: Luminous RecallGayatri SinhaThe artist’s first exhibition in India is both a memorial and a tribute to her family home and childhood days in Ambala.24 Sep 2024 | Review
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 SheikhRavikumar 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 KNMAShankar 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 DallasNeerja 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 RealitiesNamrata 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 AbrahamPinaki 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 PastRahi 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 SwaminathanRadhika 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 UpCritical 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 ArtMrinalini 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 SamantUmara 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 AcrossSandhya 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
Fluid Bodies, Plastic Trends: Beauty in the Age of Instagram by Avilasha Ghosh
In Conversation with Chandan Gomes by Mrinalini Vasudevan
New Kid on the Block: Mumbai’s Museum of Solutions by Neerja Deodhar
In the Forests of the Night by Jesal Thacker
Shabana Azmi: A Will to Act by Nasreen Rehman