Tag Archives: East-meets-West
“Faiza Butt in ‘The State of Things: Recent Art from Pakistan’”
Click here to read Kavita Ramdya’s review of Faiza Butt’s show at the Aicon Gallery London, “The State of Things: Recent Art from Pakistan”, in the February 2010 issue of “Modern Art Asia“. www.bollywood-weddings.com ============================================= “Faiza Butt in ‘The State … Continue reading
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“Blackness in India” (notions of beauty in India)
I recently met Lucia King at her film screening of “At Play” at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in West Kensington, a documentary of film director Roysten Abel’s adaptation “In Othello” of Shakespeare’s play “Othello” (talk about meta texts!). “At Play” … Continue reading
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“Worshipping the Common Man” (art review of Subodh Gupta) by Kavita Ramdya
It was great to interesting to see how Subodh Gupta integrates humor into his art work. In his sculptures, Gupta pokes fun at the western art world’s description of his work in relation to Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst as if there is … Continue reading
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“An Indian in Paris” by Kavita Ramdya (Sakti Burman at Aicon Gallery London)
Click here to read Kavita Ramdya’s profile of artist Sakti Burman and a review of his show at the Aicon Gallery London. A few weeks ago I discovered Aicon Gallery, a space completely devoted to promoting Modernist and contemporary Indian … Continue reading
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Review of Nina Paley’s “Sita Sings the Blues” by Kavita Ramdya
Click here to read Kavita Ramdya’s review of Nina Paley’s animated film “Sita Sings the Blues”. A few days ago I interviewed cartoonist Nina Paley for a review I wrote of her animated film “Sita Sings the Blues”. The movie … Continue reading
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