Writing on Modern and Contemporary Art of India

Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence (Thames & Hudson and Peabody Essex Museum, 2013) is available from Amazon and the Peabody Essex Museum Shop

Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence (Thames & Hudson and PEM, 2013). Available from Amazon and the Peabody Essex Museum Shop

Vernacular Clay Sculptors Shaping Modern India’s Artscape – Jadunath Pal (c.1840 – 1929) and G.K. Mhatre (1876-1947). Marg Magazine, special issue on ceramic art, v. 69 no 2., Pp. 22 – 26, 2017.

Post-independence Art from India in the American Art World, 1950 – 1970 In Indian Painting: Themes, History and Contexts (Essays in Honour of B. N. Goswamy). Mahesh Sharma and Padma Kaimal, eds. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publications, 2013.

Locales and Intersections: Thoughts on Convergence. Introduction for Convergence: Contemporary Art from India and the Diaspora. Storrs CT: Benton Museum, the University of Connecticut, 2013.

Nalini Malani at Home in the World: Evolution of a Feminist Art Practice, presented at the symposium New Geographies in Feminist Art at the University of Washington, Seattle, 2012.

Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence, editor and contributor, with Homi Bhabha, Rebecca Brown, Beth Citron, Ajay Sinha and Karin Zitzewitz. London and New York: Thames & Hudson and Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2013. Amazon, Peabody Essex Museum Shop

Review of Anju Dodiya: Room for Erasures. Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Artforum February, Pp. 255-56, 2013.

‘I Want to Seduce Them with My Line,’  principal essay, The Art of K. Laxma Goud. New Delhi: Art Alive Gallery, 2012.

Viewed from Across the Globe: The Art of M. F. Husain. In Barefoot Across the Nation: Maqbool Fida Husain and the Idea of India. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ed. Pp. 235 – 252. Routledge: London, 2010.

American Collectors of Indian Art, Introduction for Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art from the Collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin. Pp. 9 – 12.  Atlanta: Ogelthorpe University Museum of Art, 2010,

Gateway Bombay (Peabody Essex Museum, 2007)

Gateway Bombay (Peabody Essex Museum, 2007). Available from the the Peabody Essex Museum Shop

India International. ArtIndia Magazine XV (1): 43 – 45, 2010.

East Meets East in Husain’s Horses, in Lightning. Pp. 11-16. New York: Tamarind Gallery, 2007.

Gateway Bombay. Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2007. Peabody Essex Museum Shop

Epic India: M. F. Husain’s Mahabharata Project, with Shashi Tharoor, Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2006. Peabody Essex Museum Shop

Along the Way to Alice Time, in Living in Alice Time: New Work by Nalini Malani. Pp. 40-47. Mumbai: Sakshi Gallery. REPRINTED 2006  On the Way to Alice Time, Lalit Kala Contemporary 51, July, 2006.

Review of Sudhir Patwardhan, The Complicit Observer, essay by Ranjit Hoskote. ArtIndia Magazine 10 (2): 128-130, 2005.

Now, Then, Beyond: Time in India’s Contemporary Art, in Contemporary Indian Art: Other Realities. Yashodhara Dalmia, ed. Pp.46-57. Bombay: Marg, also appeared in Marg Magazine, March, 2002.

Epic India: M. F. Husain's Mahabharata Project (Peabody Essex Museum, 2006). Available at the Peabody Essex Museum Shop.

Epic India: M. F. Husain’s Mahabharata Project (Peabody Essex Museum, 2006). Available from  the Peabody Essex Museum Shop

Timeless Visions: Contemporary Art of India from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Salem MA: Peabody  Essex Museum, 1999. Amazon.

 

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