Art history for graduate students
At: Arkin Institute, Mumbai, On: October 1, 2017
The story of a rebellion in 5 pictures
By the time Felice Beato arrived with his camera in 1858, the actual fighting had stopped. How then did he create such evocative photographs of war?
Read more ...19th-Century Photography: Cyanotypes
At: Pundole’s Auction House, Ballard Estate, Mumbai; On: 2nd February, 2018 Cyanotype printing was developed around the same time as its albumen counterpart in the early 1800s, but it used salts of iron to produce blue-coloured prints on a white background. It was widely used in mapping architectural projects and biological documentations and inspired the coining… Read more »
Tholu Bommalaata puppets at Good Earth, Mumbai
Dates: 21st September, 2017 to 18th February,2018 Venue: The Tasting Room, Good Earth, Raghuvanshi Mills, Mumbai One of the earliest known ways of storytelling on the subcontinent, Tholu Bommalata or shadow puppet theatre is a traditional craft, passed down from father to son in the Rayalseema region of current-day Andhra Pradesh. Players manipulate the puppets… Read more »
The Konyaks – The Last of the Tattooed Headhunters by Phejin Konyak
Nature in Gond art
Temple Trails: Tracing the Architecture of the Chola Dynasty by Pradeep Chakravarthy
How to Build a Transnational Deccan City by Jonathan Gil Harris
A Beginner’s Guide to Thanjavur Paintings by Pradeep Chakravarthy
Stories in Stone by Dr Suraj Pandit
Crimes of curation
Watch: Books with fore-edge painting
Indian art and caste
Everyone’s welcome at Kochi
Whose art is it anyway
Sultan of Swing
Mighty Mysore
Tipu’s book club
The Enigma of Tipu Sultan
