TAKE on art Magazine - Issue 14, 2014

In this issue

We are revisiting a theme from 2012 as we feel that art collecting is something that could benefit from further introspection and study. The issue will be a reading of the collecting practices of several influential collectors of art from South Asia including Abdelmonem Bin Eisa Alserkal | Akshay Chudasama | Arjun Sawhney| Darshan Shah | Dara Mehta | Dattaraj Salgaocar | Dolly and Lovraj Talwar | Dr Dick Quan | Dr. Oei Hong Djien | Harsh Goenka | Lekha Poddar | Radhika Chopra | Raj Salgaocar | Rita and Yogesh Mehta | Rudy Akili | Samir Modi |Sandhya Jain - Patel | Shalini Passi | Sunil Hirani | Sunita Choraria | Taimur Hassan | The Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani Museum | Tom Tandio | Uli Sigg | Waswo X. Waswo | Walter Vanhaerents.

Contributions by Sharmistha Ray ∙ Mayank Mansingh Kaul ∙ Charu Maithani ∙ Abha Housego ∙ Nivedita Magar ∙ Bharti Lalwani ∙ Dr Karen Exell ∙ Sonal Singh ∙ Priya Pall ∙ Alia Swastika ∙ Gayatri Rangachari Shah ∙ Bhavna Kakar ∙ Deepanjana Klein ∙ Fatima Karan ∙ Rebecca Anne Proctor ∙ Shireen Gandhy ∙ Darpana Capoor ∙ Anushka Rajendran ∙ Phalguni Desai ∙ Deepika Shetty ∙ Himali Singh Soin ∙ Waswo X. Waswo ∙ Rosalyn D'mello ∙ Hemant Sareen ∙ Niru Ratnam ∙ Varsha Reshamwala ∙ Julia Marchand ∙ Manisha Gera Baswani

TAKE on art Magazine Description:

TAKE on art, the leading art magazine in India published bi-annually from New Delhi since 2009, comprehensively covers, reports and critiques art and cultural events from India and abroad. Led by Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Bhavna Kakar, TAKE follows a critical approach to the larger discourse on art through curated issues with contributions by leading writers and critics from across the globe. The magazine has been invested in sustaining critical writing practices in India not just through its own capacity as a publication but also by organising initiatives that try to generate discourse, and keep conversations alive. In the past, the publication has organised writing workshops under the TAKE on Writing series as well as hosted the TAKE TALK series. Significant projects in this direction include TAKE on Residency, in collaboration with IFA at 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore in 2013, TAKE on Writing, Critic-Community: Contemporary Art Writing at Sunaparanta Centre for the Arts, Goa in 2014 and more recently, Take on Writing - Critical Writing Ensemble (CWE) Baroda Chapter at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda in December 2015 and the CWE Dhaka Chapter, conceptualised by Katya Garcia Anton, in collaboration with OCA, Norway at the Dhaka Art Summit in 2016 supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council. The most recent TAKE on Writing initiatives included The Book – The New Writing Group, a workshop led by Chus Martínez and Ingo Niermann supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and The Book – Ensemble, both held in New Delhi in December 2016.

The magazine has travelled internationally to events such as Art Basel, Art Basel HK, Art Basel Miami, Dhaka Art Summit and Asia Triennale Manchester, as well as collaborated with landmark events locally such as Experimenter Curator's Hub (2011 - 2016), Insert 2014, Sarai Reader 09: Episode 1, 2 and 3, Amrita Sher-Gil National Art Week and Delhi Photo Festival.