LEAD ESSAYS
30 Lucian Harris writes about the adventures of international collectors – especially those who are buying Indian art and shaping the market
36 Laura Williams teases out the connections between artworks, their travels and changing paradigms of value.
41 POINT OF VIEW
Gallerist Mortimer Chatterjee takes potshots at people from his own fraternity.
43 REPORT - EAR TO THE GROUND
Why did Somnath Hore’s ‘new’ works raise the temperature of the art world? Meera Menezes finds out.
LEAD FEATURES
46 Anders Petterson holds forth on ArtTactic’s market surveys.
50 On his visit to the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Anirudh Chari thinks of Kolkata’s up-and-coming Museum of Modern Art.
52 Arshiya Lokhandwala traces the themes that enrich the works of Indian art’s blue-eyed boy – Subodh Gupta.
55 OPINION
Sandhya Bordewekar looks sceptically at the art boom in Baroda.
56 LETTER FROM PAKISTAN
Quddus Mirza worries about the marriage of art and commerce in Pakistan.
60 PANEL DISCUSSION
Abhay Maskara, Ashok Sukumaran, Dinesh Vazirani, Geetha Mehra, Jai Danani, Mallika Advani and Vishwas Kulkarni get into an argument over issues related to the Indian art market. Abhay Sardesai and Zehra Jumabhoy stir up the discussion.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEWS
67 Lee Johnson marvels at the way art, literature and finance get interwoven in Margarita Gluzberg’s The Money Plot.
68 Devika Singh uncovers the contesting realities implicit in Desperately Seeking Paradise at the Pakistan Pavilion, Art Dubai 2008.
70 INTERNATIONAL REPORT
Samira Sheth is impressed by the wares on offer at Art Dubai 2008.
SPECIAL REPORTS
71 Ganieve Grewal discusses Christie’s role in the development of the Indian art market.
74 Maithili Parekh from Sotheby’s gives us insights into the art market boom and points out some of the problems we should be vigilant about.
INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
76 ArtSingapore 2007 gives Priya Maholay-Jaradi hope that the city-state will soon become an art hot spot.
102 Abhay Sardesai takes us back to last year’s Documenta 12.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEWS
106 Lucian Harris finds the Raqs Media Collective and its collaborators producing works that frame social and urban critiques at a show in London.
109 Victoria Chaine-Mendrzyk sees curators playing quirky games at the 9th Lyon Biennale.
111 Niharika Dinkar peeks into Sudarshan Shetty’s post-human world on display in New York.
113 Karin Miller-Lewis looks at how Seher Shah explores Islamic cultural forms and symbols and Allan deSouza responds to the politics of alienation through their work.
116 Ranbir Kaleka’s inter-mediatic art explores unsettling memories, discovers Niharika Dinkar.
118 INTERVIEW
Pooja Sood talks to Latika Gupta about nurturing Performance Art at KHOJ LIVE 08.
REVIEWS
121 Srinivasa Prasad’s art deals with memory, ritual and death, observes Alexander Keefe.
122 Alexander Keefe finds Archana Hande’s arrangeurownmarriage.com addressing the strange geometries of human relationships.
123 Veena Kelkar wonders if the multiple narratives that run through Nicola Durvasula’s works threaten to become trite.
124 Romain Maitra looks at how Meera Mukherjee effectively blurs the boundaries between the artist and the artisan.
125 A retrospective of Latika Katt’s assorted works is marred by lack of curatorial focus, states Meera Menezes.
126 Navjot Altaf’s installations and video works fail to touch Zehra Jumabhoy.
127 Mechanisms of Motion elicits a mixed response from Meera Menezes.
128 Pushpamala N’s Paris Autumn contains some haunting moments, says Zehra Jumabhoy.
129 Bharat Sikka’s urbanscapes do not hang very well, observes Anirudh Chari.
131 Spangly gold foil, shattered mirrors and fragmented poetry do not a successful art exhibition make, complains Zehra Jumabhoy as she comes out of Anju Dodiya’s show.
133 Gauri Gill’s photographs of the Indian American community hold no surprises, maintains David De Souza.
134 Deeksha Nath tracks the works of six women artists at Fluid Structures – Gender and Abstraction.
135 Geeta Doctor is impressed by the woodcuts of American printmaker, Marcia Neblett.
136 Tushar Joag’s new work exposes the preposterous plans and hypocrisies of people in power, avers Abhay Sardesai.
137 Baiju Parthan’s works continue to draw from contemporary politics, philosophy and mythology, notes Latika Gupta.
138 Deeksha Nath is moved by Shambhavi Singh’s presentation of subaltern worlds.
139 Gopika Nath checks out the men of steel in Saptarishi and God & I in Delhi.
140 OBITUARY
Aditi De remembers K.M. Adimoolam (1938-2008) as the man who straddled the world of line and colour with equal aplomb.
141 HOMAGE
Romain Maitra pays tribute to the ace photo-realist Bikash Bhattacharjee,
144 LISTINGS