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exhibition
opening: The Arts of Kashmir
Until January 6
The
Arts of Kashmir is a major international loan exhibition of
objects of exemplary quality devoted to the rich artistic
tradition of Kashmir. For centuries the Kashmir valley has been
a burgeoning arts center and cultural magnet. Covering the
fourth century to the twentieth century, this exhibition is the
first ever to be devoted to the extraordinary arts of this
highly lauded location. Premier examples of Kashmir’s
little-known works of Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic art along
with famed craft works ranging from furniture and papier-mâché
to carpets and embroidery will be included to provide a sense of
the broad artistic production of this region. The 136 works in
the exhibition come from collections in the United States,
Europe, and India. The highly respected curator of The Arts of
Kashmir, Pratapaditya Pal, has been engaged with the art of
Kashmir for more than thirty years.
in
newark,nj,usa:
INDIA:
Public Places, Private Spaces, Contemporary Photography and
Video Art
INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces -
Contemporary Photography and Video Art is the largest
exhibition of contemporary photography and video art to be
mounted in either the United States or in India. In more
than 100 works, 28 artists explore India's lives, revealing
their highly personal views of this country of a billion people.
Some artists have bent the strong tradition of
photojournalism to explore more subjective modes of photography
and video as overtly interpretive media that extend into social
analysis. Others construct elaborate fictions with
self-portraiture and performance to create deeply personal,
often enigmatic narrative histories. Each has used his or
her medium to provide rich insights into the dynamics shaping
the contemporary Indian psyche. This unexpected and
revealing exhibition demonstrates the artistic vitality arising
from extreme economic and political shifts, the pervasive
influence of the media, and cultural traditions competing with
globalization.
In addition to Raghu Rai and the late Raghubir Singh,
emerging talents Tejal Shah and Shilpa Gupta the artists
represented are: Ravi Agarwal, Navjot Altaf, Pablo Bartholomew,
Atul Bhalla,
Shahid Datawala, Anita Dube, Gauri Gill, Sunil Gupta, Subodh
Gupta,Vijay and Samar Singh Jodha, Ranbir Kaleka, Jitish Kallat,
Sonia Khurana, Shantanu Lodh, Anna Palakunnathu Matthew,
Pushpamala N., Ram Rahman, Gigi Scaria, Vivan Sundaram, Surekha,
Manish Swarup,Vivek Vilasini and Rajesh Vora.
The exhibition is the culmination of several years of research
and coordination by co- curators Gayatri Sinha, an independent
curator and art critic in India, and Paul Sternberger,
Associate Professor of Art History at Rutgers – The State
University, Newark, New Jersey. The curators also contributed to
the exhibition catalog, as did award-winning author Suketu Mehta
and Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Film and
Media, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Upto January 6th 2008
The Newark Museum 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ
07102-3176 Phone: 973-596-6550
http://www.newarkmuseum.org/
Until March 3, 2008
exhibition in ny, usa: BIG! Himalayan Art
RMA is pleased to present BIG! Himalayan Art, an
exhibition focusing on large scale works of art in the Museum’s
collection. Curated by RMA Senior Curator, Jeff Watt, the
exhibition includes over 30 paintings, appliqué textiles, tangkas
(painting or textile work on cloth) and ritual objects. Additionally,
a large-format photograph, taken by contemporary photographer Nancy
Jo Johnson and showing a tangka unfurled down the side of a
mountain, provides a vivid sense of their use and place in the
community. Viewers are invited to experience the awe-inspiring
scale that characterizes art as it is frequently displayed in
temples and at community festivals in the Himalayas. The
exhibition looks at why works of art are made in large sizes, where
they are traditionally displayed, and how and why they are used.
Himalayan art experienced in situ is almost always a sensory
overload. Architectural elements are brightly painted, and
paintings and cloth banners are often hung in layers. Paintings
are shown in sets, running into scores of individual, brightly
mounted hangings on a common theme, and walls are covered with large
figures and complex narratives. BIG! Himalayan Art
provides a sense of the scale at which such environments are
conceived by bringing together over life-sized, intricately
detailed, kaleidoscopically-colored works of art. Because
works of art made for religious purposes in the Himalayas are
commissioned and created as acts of devotion and celebration, the
bigger the scale, and the more lavish the materials, the more merit
is generated. These works of art are most commonly used in
community settings, effectively commanding the attention of crowds
of people, conveying and sustaining a sense of shared place,
practice, and tradition. This places big works of art in a
larger context by highlighting their social and cultural
significance in the Himalayas and surrounding regions.
Four techniques for making two-dimensional large scale works of art
are represented in BIG! Himalayan Art. These
include giant, appliqué textiles; paintings on cloth as stand-alone
objects; murals painted on walls of temples and government
buildings; and sets of paintings created as single
compositions composed of as many as one hundred or more individual
works.
WHAT IS IT? Himalayan Art
RMA’s cornerstone exhibition, What is it? Himalayan
Art is a survey exhibition designed to delve into the
fundamental questions asked by many of our visitors about Himalayan
art. RMA continues to attract a diverse audience that includes
scholars, students, and Himalayan travelers, but the art remains new
to many of the Museum’s visitors. To open channels for
experiencing Himalayan art’s rich humanism, cultural significance,
and beauty, the Museum has selected highlights from the collection
that lend themselves to answering questions, while also, through
their beauty and power, inviting visitors to explore further.
Considered as a cultural expanse, the Himalayas is much larger than
many people realize. It extends beyond the mountain kingdoms
of Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, and Nepal, westward to Pakistan and
Afghanistan, northward to Central Asia, Mongolia, and Siberia,
eastward to China, and southward to India and Southeast Asia.
Much of the art produced in the region is made in the service of
spiritual life. Religious establishments, including Buddhist,
Hindu, Bon, and temples to local gods, together with the nobility,
were important patrons of art. They commissioned paintings,
sculpture, pictorial textiles, and ritual implements, as well as
costume and architecture, in order to benefit the living and the
dead, to support religious practices, and to inspire humane conduct.
With the spread of Himalayan religious ideas, the art and
literature were also disseminated widely.
What is it? Himalayan Art offers visitors, from
novices to connoisseurs, the opportunity to explore an exhibition
which is regularly updated, in response to their queries, with
selections of art from the collection and a diverse range of
interpretive approaches.
What is it? Himalayan Art includes painting,
sculpture, prints and illustrated books, textiles, and architecture.
Rubin Museum of Art 150 West 17th Street New York, NY
10011 212.620.5000 www.rmanyc.org
ny, usa: "Native Women of South Asia: Manners and
Customs"
Exhibition of recent work by the artist Pushpamala N.
Using performative strategies akin to Cindy Sherman, Pushpamala N.
is best known for staged photographs that deploy the images, motifs
and mise en scene of
Indian popular film to crititque stereotypes of femininity
constructed through these films and to introduce the vernacular into
the rarified discourses of fine art.
entitled currently at the Bose Pacia Gallery in Chelsea. For more
details see:
Bose Pacia Gallery
508 W 26 St 11 Fl
New York 212 989 7074
http://www.bosepacia.com/exhibitions/exhibitions.php3
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in chicago,usa:
Splendor
and Intimacy: Mughal and Rajput Courtly Life
The Art Institute of Chicago.
Gallery 101A
111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Exquisite miniature paintings and decorative arts including
jades, jewelry, and weapons demonstrate the richness of the
arts that were produced in South Asia between the 16th and
19th centuries. The selection of objects in this exhibition
offers a glimpse into the courtly life of the Mughal emperors
(1526–1857) as well as that of their Rajput opponents and
vassals.
The interaction between the imperial Mughal dynasty and the
rugged, aristocratic, and proud Rajputs led to an immense
flowering of art and architecture seen most magnificently in
the Taj Mahal, which has greatly enhanced the architectural
and artistic heritage of India and Pakistan. War, marriage,
and diplomacy all contributed to the exquisite fusion of
Persianate Islamic art with native Rajput traditions.
The miniature paintings on display in Splendor and Intimacy
reveal the private and public lives of Mughal and Rajput
rulers behind their fortress walls. The magnificent depiction
of a sovereign in full procession (see illustration), formal
portraits of rulers and courtiers bearing arms in proud
profile, intimate scenes within the zenana (harem) of a
palace, and the image of a maiden at her toilette are windows
onto the realms of Mughal and Rajput royalty. The fine detail
and ornamentation of the textiles, arms, and jewelry worn by
those depicted in the miniatures are reflected in the
decorative arts that accompany the paintings.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/mughal
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Since July 14
in Philadelphia, USA: 'Book of War'
Among the treasures of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of the
Free Library of Philadelphia’s Rare Book Department are
twenty-five elaborately illustrated folios from a centuries-old
Mughal manuscript known as the Razmnama (literally, ‘Book
of War’). The manuscript dates to around 1598-99, and was produced
under the Muslim Mughal Dynasty, which founded a kingdom in India in
or during the early 16th century. Written in Persian at the behest
of the great Mughal Emperor Akbar, (reigned 1556 to 1605), the Razmnama
is an abridged translation of the Mahabharata, one of the
great epics of Hinduism. Although the pages from the1598-99 Razmnama
have been dispersed to collections around the world, they were once
bound as a single book whose folios numbered in the hundreds. For
the first time since 1923, an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum
of Art will bring together all 25 of the Free Library’s pages in a
special installation in the William P. Wood Gallery (Gallery 227).
The Book of War: The Free Library of Philadelphia's Mughal Razmnama
Folios is co-curated by Darielle Mason, the Museum's Stella
Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art, together with Yael
Rice of the History of Art Department at the University of
Pennsylvania. It affords a rare opportunity to explore an exciting
moment of artistic experimentation and cultural exchange. The
extensive conservation treatment necessary to exhibit these pages
has been made possible through a generous gift from Dr. Dorothy del
Bueno.
One of the foundational texts of Hinduism, the Mahabharata is told
as a complex epic narrative whose main story is that of a huge
intrafamilial war. In addition to the text, this Razmnama also
includes many exquisite and elaborate illustrations. In Akbar's
imperial atelier, artists recruited directly from the Persian court
worked side by side with Persian, central Asian, and Indian artists,
often collaborating on the same manuscripts. In addition, many
imported European prints and paintings entered the Mughal collection
during the late 16th century and artists adapted selected European
characteristics, such as the illusion of depth through shading, into
their own work. Thus in both text and illustrations the Razmnama
speaks to the diverse cultural, religious, and linguistic character
of the Mughal court. The text represents the effort of a Muslim
ruler to understand the foundations of Hinduism, so deeply rooted in
his kingdom; the images
herald the creation of a new artistic
language.
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/267.html
Philadelphia
Museum of Art Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/251.html
Exhibitions
continuing.....
exhibition
in Philadelphia, USA:
Why the Wild Things Are: Personal Demons & Himalayan Protectors
Snakes, skulls, severed human heads, and the bloody skins of wild
animals adorn the wrathful deities of the Himalayas. Often surprising to those unfamiliar with
Himalayan art, depictions of this class of deities, called the krodha (the "Angry Ones"), are
meant to shock because they represent different facets of one of the most basic human dilemmas: when each person
possesses bad as well as good traits, how can the bad be conquered and the good be promoted?
In Himalayan religious thought, many of these fierce deities embody
the deepest, most universal of human vices, including willful ignorance, pride, jealousy, greed,
and lust. Devotees believe that envisioning particular krodha deities assists them in
identifying their own weaknesses and harnessing enough force to overcome them. Other types of wrathful deities
represent local protector spirits who are held responsible for both causing and curing calamities.
Worshippers may bribe these spirits with offerings to avoid bad luck, accidents, or illness.
Why the Wild Things Are brings together seldom-exhibited
paintings and sculptures from the Museum’s superb collection of Tibetan and Nepalese art. Gory,
fearsome, and bursting with energy, images of the Angry Ones reveal a distinctive Himalayan vision of
the awesome power hiding within each of us, our own "personal demons."
Curator: Katherine Anne Paul • Assistant Curator of Indian
and Himalayan Art
Katherine Anne Paul is the Assistant Curator of Indian and Himalayan
Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A Fulbright scholar, Paul specializes in Himalayan and
Mongolian art and Asian textiles. Paul lectures widely and has worked at the American Museum of
Natural History in New York City and The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C.
Location:
Himalayan Gallery 232, second floor
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 26th Street | Philadelphia, PA 19130
Main Museum Number: (215) 763-8100 | TTY: (215) 684-7600
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/collection/116.html
New
exhibition announcements (USA):
Village of Painters: Narrative Scrolls from West Bengal
The patuas of West Bengal, India, have a long and contested social
history in the region. Traditionally, they wandered from village to
village singing their own compositions while unrolling painted
scrolls on themes divided into two main genres: the sacred and the
profane. The exhibit shows a wide range of scrolls and examines how
the patuas are keeping their art alive in today's changing world of
West Bengal.
Museum Hill, Camino Lejo off Old Santa Fe Trail Santa Fe
New Mexico, USA.
http://www.moifa.org/exhibitions/current.html
exhibition
and programming in pittsburg, usa:
Until January 20, 2008
India: New Installations,
Part I I
Mattress Factory Curator, Michael Olijnyk, and Executive/Artistic
Director, Barbara Luderowski, traveled to India and selected ten
artists to participate in two exhibitions throughout 2007. These
artists live in residence at the museum and create new site specific
installations.
includes the artists Anita
Dube, Subodh Gupta, Raqs Media Collective and Hema Upadhyay.
until
June 30 2008
in Philadelphia, USA: 'Book
of War'
Among the treasures of the John Frederick
Lewis Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Rare
Book Department are twenty-five elaborately illustrated folios
from a centuries-old Mughal manuscript known as the Razmnama
(literally, ‘Book of War’). The manuscript dates to around
1598-99, and was produced under the Muslim Mughal Dynasty, which
founded a kingdom in India in or during the early 16th century.
Written in Persian at the behest of the great Mughal Emperor
Akbar, (reigned 1556 to 1605), the Razmnama is an
abridged translation of the Mahabharata, one of the great
epics of Hinduism. Although the pages from the1598-99 Razmnama
have been dispersed to collections around the world, they were
once bound as a single book whose folios numbered in the
hundreds. For the first time since 1923, an exhibition at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art will bring together all 25 of the
Free Library’s pages in a special installation in the William
P. Wood Gallery (Gallery 227).
The Book of War: The Free Library of Philadelphia's
Mughal Razmnama Folios is co-curated by Darielle Mason, the
Museum's Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art,
together with Yael Rice of the History of Art Department at the
University of Pennsylvania. It affords a rare opportunity to
explore an exciting moment of artistic experimentation and
cultural exchange. The extensive conservation treatment
necessary to exhibit these pages has been made possible through
a generous gift from Dr. Dorothy del Bueno.
One of the foundational texts of Hinduism, the Mahabharata is
told as a complex epic narrative whose main story is that of a
huge intrafamilial war. In addition to the text, this Razmnama
also includes many exquisite and elaborate illustrations. In
Akbar's imperial atelier, artists recruited directly from the
Persian court worked side by side with Persian, central Asian,
and Indian artists, often collaborating on the same manuscripts.
In addition, many imported European prints and paintings entered
the Mughal collection during the late 16th century and artists
adapted selected European characteristics, such as the illusion
of depth through shading, into their own work. Thus in both text
and illustrations the Razmnama speaks to the diverse cultural,
religious, and linguistic character of the Mughal court. The
text represents the effort of a Muslim ruler to understand the
foundations of Hinduism, so deeply rooted in his kingdom; the
images herald the creation of a new artistic language.
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/267.html
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/251.html
Museum
Exhibition continue...
Pilgrimage:
A Selection of Paintings by Anjolie Ela Menon
Gallery Rotation Asian Art Museum San Francisco,USA
A selection of eleven paintings by the acclaimed contemporary Indian
artist Anjolie Ela Menon (b. 1940). The paintings will be on display
in Gallery 5 of the museum’s South Asian gallery suite, located on
the third floor.
The centerpiece of the installation is Yatra (2004), a large
oil painting on masonite board recently acquired by the Asian Art
Museum. This triptych depicts various figures that can be identified
as participants in a particularly well-known north Indian Hindu
pilgrimage, or yatra. Menon’s interest in these pilgrims
stems from both a sense of admiration and from her view of their
devotional act as an unbroken bridge linking India’s ancient past
with its rapidly modernizing present.
Anjolie Ela Menon was born in West Bengal state in 1940. She studied
at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai, Delhi University, and the
Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. She has had over thirty-five shows in
India, the United States, Russia, Germany, France, and England. Her
works have been acquired by several museums in India and abroad, and
she has represented India at various international Biennials. In
2002, a retrospective of her work was held at the National Gallery
of Modern Art, Mumbai. Menon has been awarded the Padma Shri (2000),
one of the highest honors in India. The artist lives and works in
Delhi.
http://www.asianart.org/galleryrotations.htm
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