Art India - December 2020

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How have artists and writers faced up to this unprecedented and continuous panic? The issue assembles images, meditations and philosophical positions these fraught times have triggered. Here then is an album of images that opens a portal into the inner lives of artists and writers –
a swarm of thoughts that unsettles them and the demons they grapple with.

Home In The Year Of Covid-19

Lockdown Diaries

2 mins

PROPHETIC VISIONS

Immediately after the nationwide lockdown was imposed on March 24, things were exceptionally bad in Goa, which had already been shuttered earlier in the week.

2 mins

WE ARE ALL MIGRANTS

It was in the early 1950s that my father migrated to Vadodara, Gujarat, from his village Bordawe near Kankavli in the Konkan area of southern Maharashtra.

2 mins

MAPS OF A NEW REALITY

Death is the connecting thread between ancient Roman masks and recent surgical masks. Both types of masks deal with identity: the historic ones preserve while the contemporary ones conceal.

2 mins

The Evolving Gesture

Artists take Four Positions on excavating form, states Mario D’ Souza.

4 mins

Cast in Shadows

Jitish Kallat’s new show maps the transformation of bodies in relation to cosmic elements and cosmological rhythms as opposed to industrial clock-time, reveals Anuj Daga.

4 mins

Scars Of A Sick Body

An uncle’s mysterious ailment led Prajakta Potnis to probe the menacing, internal world of an ill body and its contaminated habitats, points out Shweta Upadhyay.

4 mins

Against the System

From confronting white hegemony in the field of knowledge to menstrual taboos and patriarchal control of domestic spaces, a group show documents the art of dissent in all its varieties, informs Adwait Singh.

5 mins

The Cities Within

Georgina Maddox spots three artists assessing their locations.

2 mins

Breaking The Psychological Barrier

An untitled painting by V.S. Gaitonde became one of the most expensive works by an Indian artist sold at an auction. It broke the record set by S. H. Raza’s Tapovan, notes Meera Menezes.

3 mins

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Art India Magazine Description:

ART India is India's premier art magazine: over the last 25 years, it has been responsible for the promotion of a critical discourse around diverse art forms, activities and disciplines.

As an important forum for discussing, interrogating and appreciating art practices, ART India has been responsible for giving a platform to artists and critics to engage in a mutually replenishing intellectual dialogue with each other. This has led to the fostering of a vibrant atmosphere of sustained debate around crucial issues linked to the theory and practice of painting, sculpture, installation art, new media art, photography and architecture.

We have taken care to be multi-disciplinary in our approach as well as to dwell on diverse visual cultural issues of importance and urgency.

ART India has been launched successfully in Dubai, New York, London, Lahore, and Karachi, among other international venues.

ART India has a huge international following and has been chosen by Beaux Arts magazine, Paris, as one of the leading art magazines in the world.