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Art & Culture
In Search of Modern Art
From Raza to Husain to the leader of the Bombay Progressives, FN Souza, nobody really knew what modern art or modernity was. It was Paris and its influences that gave their amorphous ideas a sense of form and identity
When Talking Is High Art
British-German artist Tino Sehgal’s work ‘creates’ conversations between strangers in urban societies. Someone should tell him about Kolkata’s famous addas
An Osian of Debt
Neville Tuli on the difficulty of raising Rs 10 lakh in cash while Osian’s had Rs 1,000 crore in assets, and the bad press that he gets
Internet Diva
Namitha, the siren from Surat who reduces south Indian men to slavering wrecks
Alphabetical Disorder
An exhibition built around words, their trickery and playfulness, their horrifying power to harm and maim, and their magical ability to conjure imaginative worlds
The Curator Must Play Critic
How large and comprehensive should a retrospective be? Three current shows, on the works of KK Hebbar, Krishna Reddy and SH Raza, offer answers
The Holy Holocaust
A stage adaptation of a poem that retells a Mahabharata myth in a modern context
Eugen Sandow: Fakir of Physical Culture
An account of the strongman’s visit to India in 1904, excerpted from David Waller’s forthcoming book The Perfect Man
A Useless Quest for Deeper Meaning
A gorgeous photographic exhibition tries to commit suicide
‘I really don’t know why things happened in this story’
If you are confused about Rockstar’s plot, then Imtiaz Ali is the wrong man to ask
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