Department of Theatre Arts

With everything of our lives online for many months of the pandemic, and the visual becoming the video experience, a much anticipated return to the real has the 2021 edition of Abu Dhabi Art making up for lost time, with the realisation of many of the ideas originally conceived of for the previous year’s fair. […]

Venice Biennale 59 was fascinating, invigorating and extremely engaging. Curator Cecilia Aleman’s Milk of Dreams shares its title with surrealist artist Leonora Carrington fantastic book and illustrations with the same name. It describes a constantly changing magical world brought about by the prism of imagination. By appointing predominantly women artists and curators, Aleman’s releases a […]

A lengthy black tattoo line running from a tribal woman’s nose up to her forehead may be a mark of her caste or tribe. She is carrying a parrot in her hand. The woman is dressed in a white sari with a crimson border that is twice or three times wrapped around her waist to […]

Sometimes I wonder, how overwhelmed a curator must feel, when he decides to put together a leviathan number of artworks, each outstanding, into one tangible assemblage. How does he screen, how does he eliminate, and how does he win his battles with the inevitable overthinking? The book Shringara of Shrinathji, by Mapin Publishing, is one […]