Posts Tagged With: Photography
Remembering Shanghai
Did I mention I went to Shanghai at the end of last year? Well, I did. Obviously, the first thing that I wanted to ask anyone I met was along the lines of, “What’s it like to have no freedom of speech?”, but I did manage to restrain myself. It was, in most cases, the [...]
Recap: Alain Paiement at MFG
To put it bluntly, I haven’t really been a fan of Matthieu Foss’s choice of photographers. Before he opened Matthieu Foss Gallery in Ballard Estate, he’d rented spaces for shows and with the singular exception of a Bharat Sikka solo, pretty much everyone else he showed verged on ghastly. The show by a chap called [...]
Ghost Wall
Now that I’m unemployed and don’t have to go into South Bombay every day, I’m spared the sight of the godawful graffiti that is splattered across the walls along Tulsi Pipe Road. The damn thing is the reason that graffiti gets a bad name: it’s ugly, badly-drawn, hideous colours, and slogans that sound like quotes [...]
And the Gimp goes to…
Now that we’re well and truly in 2009, and I’m no longer living from hangover to hangover (what is it about the last week of the year that makes Kolkata’s posh set want to emulate Paris Hilton?), I think it’s time to indulge in a little nostalgia about 2008. I wasn’t going to do a [...]
Do Be Do Be Do
November is the month of challenges. Self-imposed, utterly stupid and completely unnecessary ones that somehow affirm to yourself that you are cool even as you do things which are often not cool at all. I don’t know what it is about the month but it addles brains a little. A friend of mine had posited [...]
Indi-Pop
According to a recent Art Review, Nature Morte‘s Peter Nagy is one of the 100 most powerful people in the world of art and now, he’s dipping his toes in the European art market by opening up a Nature Morte gallery in Berlin. Bodhi Berlin has company. Indian housewives in the city should start practising [...]
Circle of life
Michael Musto copies Lindsay Lohan copying Marilyn Monroe (see The Last Sitting, redux). I think I prefer Musto to Lohan.
The Last Sitting, redux
Till last week-ish, if you typed “The Last Sitting”, you got one link about disgruntled members of parliament from Uttar Pradesh, India, and a list of links with pictures from the last photoshoot that Marilyn Monroe did before committing suicide. Photographer Bert Stern brought out all the pictures, including the ones Marilyn had rejected with [...]
World Domination
