Author Archives: anonandon
Man of Steel
Ever since I saw Adip Dutta’s steel wool trousers, I’ve been a fan. Which sounds much racier as a sentiment than it actually is. Dutta showed years ago at Project 88. His part of the show was titled The Mould Confronts the Snake, which sounds ponderously philosophical. Some of the works, like the one after [...]
Hanging Around
This is just beautiful. Yasuaki Onishi’s installation is titled “reverse of volume rg” and it will be on display at Rice Gallery until 24th June. Sadly, given the fact that the rupee is at an all-time low against the dollar, it will not be possible for me to pop by and see it for myself [...]
Raving Lunatics
I was young once and in that long-lost time, there were things we knew as raves. A real rave was usually associated with a dingy-ish location that has no seating area and lots of space for intoxicated people to do intoxicated things. There had to be electronic dance music; bass that’s so loud that it [...]
Backlog: Cardinal Meridians
I saw this show a few days after it opened, which is literally months ago (or at least a month ago). Now the closing date is nearing — May 31st, in case you were wondering — and I figured it was about time I wrote something, anything about Cardinal Meridian: New Geometries of the Infinite. [...]
Stop, I Say
I didn’t actually find this. Tin Roof Press did and it’s an awesome find. Meet the two-faced god of traffic. He’s Trafficeswara (the good side) on the left and Trafficasura (the bad side) on the right. So much cooler than Janus. This kind of kitsch I like. It’s clever, shows good use of lines and [...]
Must-have
I should get me one of these.
Off With Their Heads
There are some things in life that we will perhaps never understand. Like how life came into being. Or the size of the universe. Or the fact that Fifty Shades of Grey and its two follow-ups are bestsellers. Or what possessed Shekhar Gupta of the Indian Express to not only sue OPEN magazine for publishing an interview [...]
Back in a Gif-fy
Alright, I’m just going to get this out of my system and maybe then I’ll have some luck writing the piece that I was supposed to have sent…about 2 hours ago. Well, actually 2 months ago, but the most recent deadline was 2 hours ago. See why I need to write this pronto? Recently, a [...]
Wife = Sita?
A man wants to divorce his wife. His wife doesn’t want to live with him. They appear in court. What do you suppose the judge does? In a sensible world, you’d think the judge would grant the divorce, figure out an alimony arrangement and say the modern equivalent of pax vobiscum. Not in India. While [...]
iPad, Calculators, Rashid Rana
So after all the shoo-sha, Hugo has had an India release. This will probably sound ungrateful but really, the distributors shouldn’t have bothered. In Mumbai at least, there are about 4-odd shows of Hugo, and all of them are at night. At PVR Phoenix, for example, Hugo will be on at 9.50pm. In Nariman Point, the show starts at 8pm. [...]
World Domination
