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Burst, Detail, Direct block printing with mineral dye on handwoven kala cotton, with hand stitch, 95.5 x 44.5 inches, 2019. pics/Maggie Baxter and Project 88, Mumbai

Mid-Day: A dialogue with Indian crafts: Maggie Baxter

by Dhara Vora Sabhnani Contemporary Australian artist Maggie Baxter’s ongoing exhibition blurs the line between contemporary art and traditional Indian textile craft practices. What happens when a contemporary artist from Australia, who largely produces abstract work, decides to connect with …

Prajakta Potnis

Firstpost: Committing a Dream: Chapter 4: Opening the door to Prajakta Potnis :

Gitanjali Dang and Khanabadosh curate this project — ‘Invisible Light’ — under which, so far, two themes have been introduced: Jagte Raho and Committing a Dream (Above: Prajakta Potnis, 7.10, 2019) Sylvia Plath wrote her first tragic poem when she was 14. The poem …

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The Indian Express: Black and White : Baptist Coelho

Written by Pallavi Chattopadhyay | July 30, 2019 Nine artists dig deep into the many layers of the skin in the exhibition titled ‘Skin: The Finer Nuance’ In Attempts to Contain, Baptist Coelho from Mumbai displays photographs of an unclothed body interlocking …

Seed, by Rohini Devasher, 2004. Charcoal, acrylic, colour
pencil, oil pastel, wood; 245 x 457 cm. “Seed” is the first of several wall drawings that explore landscape as a living entity. Through the process of the drawing, done on site over three months, the relationship between the drawing and the forms from which it is derived is gradually blurred. The curve of the wall further heightens the sense of being engulfed, of being destabilized.

MARG MAGAZINE: ROHINI DEVASHER

This article was first published in The Weight of a Petal: Ars Botanica, edited by Sita Reddy, Mumbai: Marg, Vol. 70, No. 2, December 2018–March 2019.   Rohini Devasher …for that which we imagine must be either something already seen or a …

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SPECTRAL TIMES SARNATH BANERJEE’S DIALOGUE WITH THE DEAD- PHALGUNI DESAI

1 March, 2019- The Hindu Combining illustrations and radio recordings, Sarnath Banerjee’s new exhibit is a fictional account of a Mumbai we don’t see. In the central hall of Dr Bhau Daji Lad (BDL) Museum in Mumbai, is a giant …

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