LEAD FEATURES
22 MEERA MENEZES introduces some of Delhi’s important collectors and discusses their enthusiasm for Modern and Contemporary Indian art.
25 Who are Gujarat’s major art patrons and what is the nature of the works they have acquired over the years? SANDHYA BORDEWEKAR tells us.
38 FIRST PERSON
ANUPAM PODDAR reveals what it’s like living with Devi – India’s first private art museum – while LATIKA GUPTA does some exploring of her own at the institution’s second exhibition, Where in the World.
PROFILES
32 Jehangir Nicholson’s collection will soon lend itself to curated shows,declares ZASHA COLAH.
34 The late Kavas Bharucha is not a collector Bombay will easily forget,
says SHARMISTHA RAY, as she follows the paper-work trail.
37 Miniatures of canoodling men, gender-bending video art and ingenious
stop-motion animation photography. Kutch-based collector Anurag
Khanna has them on his walls (and in his DVD player), gushes ZEHRA JUMABHOY.
40 ROMAIN MAITRA tells us about the doyenne of Calcutta’s art scene, Rakhi
Sarkar, while ADIP DUTTA briefs us on Museums of the Future.
43 Roohi and Rajiv Savara confide in MEERA MENEZES about their
exceptional collection of Pre-Modern and Modern Indian art.
OPINIONS
46 DINESH VAZIRANI traces the changing profile of the Indian collector from
the mid-’90s to the present day.
48 MAITHILI PAREKH explains why the storm clouds of the recession have
silver linings.
49 Collectors who do not behave in these hard times are likely to be
punished soon, warns MORTIMER CHATTERJEE.
50 ARTIST ON COLLECTORS
International collectors have been crucial to his rise, confesses Subodh Gupta to MEERA MENEZES.
ARTISTS AS COLLECTORS
52 Krishen Khanna’s love of art has many facets, finds MEERA MENEZES.
53 Why is Bose Krishnamachari starting a gallery? And what has become of
his plan to build a museum? GITANJALI DANG asks the man himself.
Bombay-based collectors AMRITA JHAVERI, CZAEE SHAH, NAMITA SARAF
and PHEROZA GODREJ gather for a conversation with ABHAY SARDESAI and
ZEHRA JUMABHOY about the highs and lows of owning, living with and
displaying Modern and Contemporary Indian art.
59 LETTER FROM PAKISTAN
Why are collectors of Pakistani art so old-fashioned? QUDDUS MIRZA
attempts an answer.
INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
74 LEE JOHNSON visits Boule to Braid featuring Nicholas Logsdail’s art
collection at the Lisson Gallery, London.
76 Why can’t India be better represented? grumbles ZEHRA JUMABHOY at the
53rd Venice Biennale.
AVNI DOSHI is overawed by Raqib Shaw’s glitzy, gem-studded, gory
paintings.
REVIEWS
80 Does the virtual world measure up to the actual world at Sudarshan Shetty’s Bangalore
solo? MEERA MENENZES finds out.
81 GEETA PATEL responds lyrically to Dayanita Singh’s poignant photographs.
83 ANUPA MEHTA revels in the erotic spookiness of Chittrovanu Mazumdar’s dark “chambers
of desire and death”.
84 Kausik Mukhopadhyay’s exhibition might have been full of gadget-laden locomotives, but
it was not heading in any new direction, discovers GITANJALI DANG.
85 Nilima Sheikh’s fragile paper-works explore Kashmir’s fall from its position as Paradise on
Earth. KAUSHIK BHAUMIK finds himself deeply affected by her world-view.
88 Who says that art and politics mingle well in a gallery space? Experimenter Gallery’s
latest show finds ANIRUDH CHARI questioning assumptions.
89 BOOK REVIEW
Elite Collectors Of Modern & Contemporary Indian Art provokes TASNEEM ZAKARIA MEHTA
to pose queries about the roles patrons play.
91 HOMAGE
RANJIT HOSKOTE mourns Tyeb Mehta, India’s leading Modernist Master.
94 LISTINGS