Promoting pre-modern and modern Indian art since 1993 through galleries, museums, exhibitions, publishing and social outreach programmes.
“[Samuel] Bourne may have viewed the western technology of the camera as yet another symbol of the dominance of European culture, but Indians had lost no time in embracing the new medium. Bourne himself had noted that Indian studios were not uncommon in the Calcutta of the early 1860s. Bu...
The 20th-century galleries tilt towards public rather than private statements: dedicated rooms for feminist campaigner Annie Swynnerton and political radical Richard Hamilton, rather than Lucian Freud or Leon Kossoff, for example. It is encouraging that half the modern works are by women, but the se...
The reason for these attempts to strictly control imagery was because many people would come to visit the monastery, just as they would picture galleries or temples of deities. In competition with these other tourist destinations, as it were, monastics were forced to maintain an aesthetic which ...
but have a sense of fun. Amsterdam’s particular delight is that all this is manageable – if it’s not next door, then it’s a short walk or tram hop away. From the grand canals of the center, to the galleries of the gentrifiedJordanin the west, from the Museum Quarter in the ...
Promoting pre-modern and modern Indian art since 1993 through galleries, museums, exhibitions, publishing and social outreach programmes.