Open letter: Kochi-Muziris Biennale artists flag organisational challenges that led to postponement

The event was postponed a night before its inauguration on December 12. It opened to the public on Friday.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 24, 2022 · 07:37 am

At the Museum of Christian Art in Goa, glimpses of India’s artistic syncretism

Most objects at the museum, across types, reveal inspirations from the visual vocabulary of different parts of India.

Kamayani Sharma

· Oct 26, 2022 · 11:30 am

Drawing Hindu epics in Art Deco style, this Polish artist left behind a striking legacy

Stefan Norblin melded two disparate approaches to artmaking in the 20th century to create a very unique practice.

Kamayani Sharma

· Oct 11, 2022 · 11:30 am

Dora Maar and Françoise Gilot were not just Picasso’s muses – they were artists in their own right

Both women profoundly influenced Picasso, and both were exceptional talents.

Lisa French, The Conversation

· Oct 02, 2022 · 11:30 pm

‘In all my years, no gallery has represented me’: Savindra Sawarkar on Brahmanism in the arts

Sawarkar is the first Indian gallery artist to foreground the Dalit experience of caste as an aesthetic mode. In a broad interview, he talks about his practice.

Kamayani Sharma

· Sep 27, 2022 · 11:30 am

Art logistics has come a long way since the time Ashoka pillars were shifted to Delhi

Moving fragile, expensive art requires more than just bubble wrap. It is a specialised, complex, painstaking work that has grown into a niche industry in India.

Kamayani Sharma

· Jul 02, 2022 · 11:30 am

Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portraits reveal the darker side of 1960s America

On the surface, the works may look like a tribute to a much-loved icon, but themes of death, decay and even violence lurk within these canvases.

Harriet Fletcher, The Conversation

· Apr 26, 2022 · 11:30 pm

In India, the world of NFTs suffers from the same inequalities as the world of traditional art

Although the NFT art market in India is still small, it hasn’t delivered the degree of egalitarianism it promised.

Kamayani Sharma

· Apr 09, 2022 · 11:30 am

With ‘Suspended in Time’, Ali Kazim addresses the decolonisation debate in the art world

The exhibition engages with the South Asian collections of the Ashmolean Museum that had once been used to showcase the British empire.

Farida Ali

· Mar 28, 2022 · 11:30 am

A historic collection of Indian and Pakistani art is gathering dust in Delhi

In a small room of the Ghalib Academy lie, neglected and forgotten, the works of legends like MF Husain and Sadequain.

Kamayani Sharma

· Mar 08, 2022 · 11:30 am

What did the Cold War have to do with a computer art exhibition sent to India in the 1970s?

At a time when the country had merely 140 computers, a show with works of graphic artists and animators was put on view for almost a month. Why and for whom?

Kamayani Sharma

· Feb 21, 2022 · 11:30 am

NFTs by chimpanzees is the latest chapter in a long history of animals in the art world

There have been important questions raised about the ethics of asking beasts to make works conforming to human expectations of what art should be.

Keri Cronin, The Conversation

· Aug 03, 2021 · 11:30 pm