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What the CIA did in Tibet is now on display at Kochi Muziris Biennale

An exhibition highlights how Tibetans trained by the US fought Chinese forces to free Tibet.
Ranjana Dave
Interview

Jitish Kallat: ‘My work mirrors the changing self’

Interview with the Mumbai-based contemporary artist.
Sukhada Tatke
Art

Nasreen Mohamedi and her remarkable abstractionist art

Mohamedi is regarded as one of the important modern women artists of the subcontinent.
Janhavi Acharekar
Art

‘The sea was Nasreen Mohamedi’s enduring source of inspiration’: Masanori Fukuoka

Interview with the art collector and founder of Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan.
Janhavi Acharekar

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The “Eccentric Modernism” section of the “Crafting Subversion: DIY and Decolonial Print” exhibition. The section connected Indian publications with radical Western DIY efforts of the time. 

Subversive print cultures of post-Independence India on display in London

It also presented the rapid advances in reproduction that enabled their wide dissemination. 
Rahaab Allana

Studio takes

Ketaki Sheth’s ‘Photo Studio’ is as much about studio photography in the age of selfies as it is an album of contemporary life and its attachments.
Ketaki Sheth,Devika Daulet-Singh
STUDIO KAMAL, Cuttack, Orissa, 2016; Pigment print; Edition of 10, 2sizes available: 24 x 16 in and 36 x 24 in

‘Photo Studio’ tells a story about photography in the age of selfies

The collection by Ketaki Sheth is an absorbing album of contemporary life and its attachments.
Devika Daulet-Singh
Nancy Adajania at the exhibition.

‘Forging solidarities across differences’: Nancy Adajania

The art critic says kinetic impulses guide the works assembled in ‘Woman is as Woman does’ at CSMVS.
Anupama Katakam
Pieta by Sosa Joseph

‘Woman is as Woman Does’: An ode to womanpower

An exhibition at the CSMVS in Mumbai goes beyond art to become a celebration of femininity.
Anupama Katakam
A. Ramachandran

“Don’t read anything into my art”: A. Ramachandran

His work has evolved from politically explicit sculptures and paintings to colossal canvases.
Ritika Kochhar
Tippoo Sultaun delivering to Gullum Alli Beg the Vakeel his sons who are taking leave of their brother previous to their departure from Seringapatam (1793) by Henry Singleton

Re-examining the contested legacy of Tipu Sultan

The DAG exhibition urges viewers to assess the Mysore ruler’s importance afresh.
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

India at 75 | Timeline: Art

It overcame a colonial hangover to create a unique and vibrant place for itself.
Anupama Katakam
Bilal Bhagat’s composite image.

Hum Sab Sahmat: Bent, not broken

A new exhibition celebrating 75 years of Independence probes ideas of freedom and citizenship.
Arushi Vats
Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City.

When visuals speak: How the best critiques bring art to life

The publication of a new book of essays on art history inspires, in turn, this insightful piece that shows how the best art criticism makes a work of
R. Siva Kumar
'Jantar Mantar 2019', photograph by Vinit Gupta.

Musings on freedom

An exhibition in New Delhi of the works of 52 artists titled “The Constitution of India at 70” reminds us that we are the inheritors of a powerful art
Suneet Chopra
Riyas Komu, self portrait.

Sculptor Riyas Komu: An argument about beautiful histories at risk

An interview with the artist and sculptor Riyas Komu.
C.S. Venkiteswaran
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