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Revisiting the Guerrilla Girls’ Feminist Art Crusade and the Met’s Gender Bias

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Metropolitan Museum of Art exterior and gender representation in female artists

From Provocation to Progress: Has the Art World Evolved Since 1989? In 1989, the Guerrilla Girls—an anonymous collective of feminist artists—put up a billboard asking a relevant (yet biting) question: “Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?” Originally supposed to be a billboard, commissioned by the Public Art Fund in […]

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Framing The Black History Month With An Ambedkarite Vision.

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Bakery Prasad Illustrates a Shared Space Between Black History Legends and Dalit Community Icons. In the United States of America, February is celebrated as Black history month. To commemorate the long struggle of the African-American community in the states, the annual remembrance helps in keeping history alive and thriving and celebrating Black art and culture. 

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The Indian Flag Evolution Through Face Paint

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A Brief History of Face Painting As Indians when we think of face paintings, several images come to mind, from Kuchipudi dance form to Natyashastra-inspired dramatic facial makeovers. Face paintings are essentially, like any other form of art, a means of self-expression that is common amongst several cultures and traditions. In indigenous cultures, body paints

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Ashok Vajpeyi Conveys Mithu Sen’s Many Forms of Synthesis

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A Picture of Mithu Sen

Ashok Vajpeyi in conversation with Piyush Daiya Editor’s Note Poet and cultural cognoscenti Ashok Vajpeyi turns 85 today and is documenting his memoirs with writer Piyush Daiya. As part of the memory project, we publish his detailed impressions of four women artists. This is the fourth of a four-part series. Read the first part (Nilima

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A Museum of One’s Own: Creating, Discoursing and Personalizing: Talk by Johny ML

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The Museum Lecture Series at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore At the inauguration of the Art Museum, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath Bangalore hosted the Museum Lecture series on 13th January 2025. The show’s star was Delhi art historian, critic, curator and writer – Johny ML. An honorary member of the Museum Commission, Dept of Museum and Archaeology,

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Ashok Vajpeyi on Nalini Malani and Her Different Directions of Innovation

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Nalini Malani's face

Ashok Vajpeyi in conversation with Piyush Daiya Editor’s Note Poet and cultural cognoscenti Ashok Vajpeyi is turning 85 this 16th and is documenting his memoirs with writer Piyush Daiya. As part of the memory project, we publish his detailed impressions of four women artists. This is the third of the four-part series. Read the first

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Ashok Vajpeyi Discusses the Contemporary Address of Arpita Singh

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Arpita Singh painting

Ashok Vajpeyi in conversation with Piyush Daiya Editor’s Note Poet and cultural cognoscenti Ashok Vajpeyi is turning 85 this 16th and is documenting his memoirs with writer Piyush Daiya. As part of the memory project, we are publishing his detailed impressions of four women artists. This is the second of the four-part series. Read the

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Ashok Vajpeyi Addresses The True Inheritance of Nilima Sheikh

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Ashok Vajpeyi in conversation with Piyush Daiya Editor’s Note Poet and cultural cognoscenti Ashok Vajpeyi is turning 85 this 16th and is documenting his memoirs with writer Piyush Daiya. As part of the memory project, we are publishing his detailed impressions of four women artists. This is the first of the four-part series. Read the

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