[ad_1] I was 21 when I first met Krishan Chopra in the offices of Penguin India in Delhi’s Nehru Place on a balmy October morning in 1997. I had been interviewed by David Davidar a few months before and was offered the job of a sales executive, based in Chennai. Nehru Place wasn’t particularly swank. … Read more
[ad_1] Contemporary art is often parodied for its use of bodily waste – urine on canvases, faeces in tin cans, menstrual blood as installation. But rewind two centuries and you’ll find that while excretory materials may not have made it to the content of images, they nevertheless did serve as ingredients for their production. Two … Read more
[ad_1] At the end of the 1980s, a young woman purchased a slightly damaged print by the 19th century painter and printmaker Raja Ravi Varma for Rs 500. “I remember saying ‘this is a very beautiful image’,” she recalled later. “I’d never seen anything like it… I felt like looking out for more.” Given Ravi … Read more
[ad_1] On a humid monsoon afternoon in the early 1980s, in a village most Indians had never heard of, a Delhi artist stood silently before a mud wall. The village was Patangarh, deep inside the Mandla forests of Madhya Pradesh. The wall belonged to a modest Gond home. And on that wall, painted in earth … Read more
[ad_1] The G5A cultural centre in Mumbai has organised an Anand Patwardhan retrospective between October 2 and 5. The programme – featuring 10 out of his 13 documentaries and two short films – covers the breadth of the 75-year-old filmmaker’s thematic concerns over five decades, including human rights, majoritarianism, hyper-nationalism, casteism, ecological damage and protest … Read more