Review of 'Mūḷ Māthī'

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Review of 'Mūḷ Māthī'

Back in 2021, Dior’s Creative Director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, collaborated with the Chanakya Atelier to reinterpret Madhvi and Manu Parekh’s paintings as hand-embroidered textile panels. Embroidered over the course of three months using both traditional Indian and couture techniques, these panels formed the backdrop for Dior’s spring-summer haute couture 2022 show at Musée Rodin in Paris. The tapestries travelled back to India last month, where they were on display at a special exhibition, Mūḷ Māthī, curated by the Asia Society India Centre at Snowball Studios in Mumbai.

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A Review of N.S. Harsha: Stomach Studio

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A Review of N.S. Harsha: Stomach Studio

In Stomach Studio, Harsha’s first solo exhibition in New Delhi — currently showing at Vadehra Art Gallery — the artist keenly observes our current pandemic-ridden world with both humour and despair. Comprising a cast of outlandish characters, from an octopus-headed lamp-lighter to mutant rats making love, his works —ranging from quotidian to supernatural — allude to a sense of eccentricity as well as perceptive socio-political awareness. We asked New Delhi-based writer Riddhi Dastidar to review the exhibition.

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A Review of Amar Kanwar: Such a Morning

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A Review of Amar Kanwar: Such a Morning

Art in the time of Covid-19 imposes a new tolerance to a life online and given that so much online content is highly commercialised, or else trivia, prurient or sensational, the experience of visiting a virtual gallery, is unexpectedly enriching, through its required slowness and deliberateness. Amar Kanwar’s art has this power to arrest and the images onscreen stay in memory, but more immediately they summon up a line of writing that’s power has only increased in the age of the internet.

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A Review of Moderne Maharajah at the Musée des Artes Décoratifs

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A Review of Moderne Maharajah at the Musée des Artes Décoratifs

Moderne Maharajah at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris brings together for the first time 500 rare photographs, pieces of furniture and fine objects that tell the story of the stylish life of Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Holkar II of Indore considered one of the pioneers of modernism in India. 

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Art from the Mountains: An Exhibition of Pahari Paintings at The Met

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Art from the Mountains: An Exhibition of Pahari Paintings at The Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is currently hosting an exhibition of artwork from the Pahari tradition of North India. Set in an intimate gallery in an annexe of the Southeast Asian Art section of the museum, “Seeing the Divine” offers a small but invaluable selection of Pahari works—including those by notable artists like Nainsukh and his older brother Manaku, who are well-recognised by Indian art historians. I was fortunate to speak with the exhibition curator, Kurt Behrendt.

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