Friday, February 20, 2009

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Contents of Issue 1

OVERVIEW

The Institution of Art Exhibition in Global Perspective

Pranabranjan Ray

Artists’ Groups of Bengal

Mrinal Ghosh

 

MODERN MASTERS

Paritosh Sen

Mrinal Ghosh

Sanat Kar: Learning Evolving and Teaching

Soumik Nandy Majumdar

Inescapable Jogen Choudhury:

Soumik Nandy Majumdar

Suhas Roy: World of Unalloyed Harmony

Swapan Mullick


GLOBAL CONNECT

Shuvaprasanna’s German Encounter

Nitasha Guha

 

IN CONVERSATION

Jayashree Chakravarty: Remembrance of Things Past

Anirudh Chari

 

IN FOCUS

Ganesh Haloi: Metascapes

Manasij Majumder

 

INSTALLATION ART

Chhatrapati Dutta: Confrontations and Conversations

Ruma Dasgupta

Aditya Basak: Conjuring Spirits

Anirudh Chari

Paula Sengupta: Vacuity of the Zenanas

Nanak Ganguly

 

LEGENDARY TEACHERS OF BENGAL

Somnath Hore and K.G. Subramanyan:

Shaping Minds and Leaving Marks

Sanjoy Mallik

 

BOOK REVIEWS

In Splendid Isolation Manasij Majumder’s 

Imprint Off A Sensitive Soul

Swapan Mullick

Ardhakathanaka – half a tale

Dorian Gray


MARKET REVIEW

The Boom in Retrospect

R. Siva Kumar

 

CONSERVING ART

Swelling Collections and Shrinking Wall Spaces

Sukanta Basu

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Friday, January 2, 2009

Launch in Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai, and Jaipur

Kolkata
6:00 pm, Friday
17th Jan. 2009
Oxford Bookstore
17 Park St.
Kolkata - 700016

A panel discussion on 'Art Writing: Challenges, Potentials, Directions’ moderated by Tapati Guha Thakurta followed by the launch. 

Chief guest ~ Smt. Nabaneeta Deb Sen (Renowned Poet & Academic)
Guest of honour ~Sri. Ganesh Haloi 


New Delhi
4:00 pm, Monday
19th Jan. 2009
Oxford Bookstore
Statesman House ; Connaught Place
148 Barakhamba Road
New Delhi - 110001 

Chief guest ~ Sri. Ashok Vajpayee (Chairman Lalit Kala Academy) 
Guest of honour ~ Sri. S.H Raza 

Mumbai
6:30 pm, Friday
13th Feb. 2009
Apeejay House ; 3, Dinshaw Vachha Road
Mumbai - 400020

Chief guest ~ Sangeet Martand, Padmavibhushan Sri. Pandit Jasraj 
Guest of honour ~ Sri. Akbar Padamsee 

Jaipur
4:00 pm, Saturday
24th Jan. 2009
Laxman Path, Vivek Vihar
Off New Sanganer Road
Jaipur - 302019

Chief guest ~ Sri. S. Ahmed (Principal Secretary to State of Rajasthan, Dept. of Art, Literature & Culture)
Guest of Honour ~ Ritu Kumar, celebrated fashion designer