Posts Tagged With: Art
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 [...]
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. [...]
Cake Crusader?
I confess: if it hadn’t been for the fact that potions take forever to brew on Pottermore, I wouldn’t have come across Makode Linde. (And had they opened up Book Two, then I wouldn’t have bothered with potions. This is all particularly weird because I’m not really a Pottermaniac by any stretch of imagination, yet [...]
Love and Laughter
It’s been a calm February 14th. Apparently, the right-wing groups that generally go about thumping their conservative chests and thrashing canoodling couples — they’re usually profess to be Hindu — announced that they were not going to go on a rampage this year. The Shiv Sena’s Delhi convenor said, “Since last year we are not [...]
“I’m an introvert. Now please shush.”
Despite the best of intentions to stride into Colaba regularly and see every show in every gallery, I’m about as aware of what’s happening in the Mumbai art scene as I am of the process of making shukto. For those who are not well-versed with Bengali food, shukto is widely-regarded as one of the jewels [...]
Quick Look: Make Me A Black Hole and I Will Believe You
I meant to write a little note about Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq’s “Make Me A Black Hole and I Will Believe You”, but since I have a flight to catch in precise 12 hours, I’m not going to get round to it clearly. So it’ll have to be some very rushed notes and a few pictures [...]
Chasing Cars
On the left, ladies and gents (and bots), is a photograph from 1974. You see a man on a Volkswagen Beetle but das not just auto. The man has been nailed to the roof of the car. He is Chris Burden, artist and proper weirdo. That photo of Burden crucified on a Beetle is from [...]
Watch the Birdie
I must admit, I’m becoming a Sheba Chhachhi fangirl. Over the years, I’ve only seen bits and bobs of her work. I think the first time I really noticed Chhachhi was when I chanced upon “Ganga’s Daughters: Meeting with Women Ascetics 1992-2002″ back in 2004 during a very random and short trip to Delhi. The [...]
I Spy
I’ve been meaning to write about Jitish Kallat’s show, “Fieldnotes: Tomorrow Was Here Yesterday”, at Bhau Daji Lad for months. It opened around end-April, if I remember correctly and I went soon after it opened. It took two more trips to get what I needed to write a post: photos. The Bhau Daji Lad Museum [...]
World Domination
