Today, we celebrate the 99th birth anniversary of S. H. Raza. In this conversation, Akar Prakar Director Reena Lath talks to Ashok Vajpeyi, Managing Trustee, Raza Foundation, about his relationship with S. H. Raza and the various influences on the master’s art, including music, dance and poetry. “In his way of thinking, colours were not …
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S. H. Raza’s 99th Birth Anniversary Special: Reena Lath in conversation with Ashok Vajpeyi
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Ashok Vajpeyi on S. H. Raza’s ‘Kundalini’
In this video, Ashok Vajpeyi, the Managing Trustee of Raza Foundation and a close aide of the late master, talks about one of the most famous works by S. H. Raza, Kundalini. S. H. Raza: Dance of the Elements in collaboration with The Raza Foundation, with text by the poet, translator, curator and author Ranjit …
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Sculptures by Sarbari Roy Choudhury – Exhibition Walkthrough with Reena Lath
Exhibition Walkthrough with Reena Lath, Director, Akar Prakar Sarbari Roy Choudhury’s strength lies not in shaking up our conception of art or sculpture, but in carrying its known possibilities to a level of perfection and subtlety so rare that it assumes an aura of uniqueness. This makes him stand out not only among his contemporaries, …
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Autumn 2020 Up Close: Akar Prakar (Asia Week New York)
Reena Lath presents works by prominent Indian contemporary artist Jayashree Chakravarty.
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Perspectives on Indian contemporary art: Ganesh Pyne – Dr. Mukund Lath on Ganesh Pyne
In this freewheeling conversation, Dr. Mukund Lath, along with Dr. Prakash Kejriwal and Pranabranjan Ray, talks about viewing Ganesh Pyne’s work at a triennale in Delhi during the 1960s. “It had a beautiful blend of modernism and ethnicity,” he adds, while fondly recalling his earliest meetings with the great master in Kolkata, especially his visits …
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Perspectives on contemporary Indian art – Ella Dutta on Ganesh Pyne
Script and Narration by Ella Datta: Ganesh #Pyne, one of the most outstanding #painters of the post-1950s generation of artists, was born in the then Calcutta, now #Kolkata, in 1937. In the mid-1950s, he joined the Government art college in Calcutta. In the early 1950s, Pyne saw a retrospective of Abanindranath Tagore’s works, and it …
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Of Lines and Words – Navigating the Complexities of C. Douglas’ paintings
Born in the southern Indian state of Kerala in 1951, C. Douglas is one of the most collected artists of the Madras Art Movement in India. C. Douglas’ works in our new Online Exhibition, ‘In Search of Fragments’, capture his journey from the 1990s until the last few years.
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For Noah, from my album: Prithpal S. Ladi
Prithpal Singh Ladi’s video from the show, ‘For Noah, From my album’.
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Natasha Ginwala in conversation with Ganesh Haloi
A seven part video series of Natasha Ginwala in conversation with the distinguished and most admired Ganesh Haloi: visual artist, curator and author.
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