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CFP: Jungle Ruins and Sacred Forests: Ecologies of the Forgotten Monument
CFP: Jungle Ruins and Sacred Forests: Ecologies of the Forgotten Monument
This session investigates the convergence of landscape, mythology, and sacred geography in the formation, decay, and transformation of ruins within forested or overgrown environments globally, while drawing conceptual inspiration from South Asian sites, such as Bhimbetka’s rock shelters, Simhachalam’s temple complex, the Buddhist site of Phanigiri, or Mughal and colonial monuments across northern India. From […]
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In a survey of Tyeb Mehta’s works, figuration that grapples with India’s social and political ruptures
In a survey of Tyeb Mehta’s works, figuration that grapples with India’s social and political ruptures
The show demonstrates the relevance of the artist’s practice to present-day asymmetries and violence.
An exhibition of Adil Jussawalla’s multilayered oeuvre swings between precision and spontaneity
An exhibition of Adil Jussawalla’s multilayered oeuvre swings between precision and spontaneity
He is mainly known as an English-language poet. Now, a show puts on display his photography, poetry, prose, sketches and scrapbooks.
Original Buddhas/ Johannes Vianneykerk, Deventer — Gods' Collections
Original Buddhas/ Johannes Vianneykerk, Deventer — Gods' Collections
‘Great Mughals’ show in London reinforces colonial perspectives that museums claim to be questioning
‘Great Mughals’ show in London reinforces colonial perspectives that museums claim to be questioning
Hiraṇyavarṇa Mahāvihāra (Kwa Bāha), Patan (Lalitpur), Nepal — Gods' Collections
Hiraṇyavarṇa Mahāvihāra (Kwa Bāha), Patan (Lalitpur), Nepal — Gods' Collections
Workshop: Social Time in Written Artefacts, CSMC, University of Hamburg
Workshop: Social Time in Written Artefacts, CSMC, University of Hamburg
Research Publications
New Discoveries in Smaller Antiquities and a Unique Portrait Sculpture from Medieval Bengal Duars | Religions of South Asia, 2022
New Discoveries in Smaller Antiquities and a Unique Portrait Sculpture from Medieval Bengal Duars | Religions of South Asia, 2022
Popular Religion in the Pala Period: Evidence from Iconographic Study of Four Female Deities from Northern Bengal | Religions of South Asia, 2021
Popular Religion in the Pala Period: Evidence from Iconographic Study of Four Female Deities from Northern Bengal | Religions of South Asia, 2021
The ‘Transcendental Body’ in Indian Iconography An Ontological Critique | Summerhill Review of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, 2021
The ‘Transcendental Body’ in Indian Iconography An Ontological Critique | Summerhill Review of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, 2021
From Inner Eye to After Sight: Benode Behari Mukherjee in London - The Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design, 2021
From Inner Eye to After Sight: Benode Behari Mukherjee in London - The Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design, 2021
The kirtimukha in ancient Indian art and how it came to be associated with the ‘grotesque’ - The Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design, 2020
The kirtimukha in ancient Indian art and how it came to be associated with the ‘grotesque’ - The Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design, 2020
Spatial-cultural dialogism and contemporary expanded visual art practice in Britain: The art of the British-Indian artist Hardeep Pandhal, 2021
Spatial-cultural dialogism and contemporary expanded visual art practice in Britain: The art of the British-Indian artist Hardeep Pandhal, 2021
Reflections on Modernism in Bangladesh and the abstract artist Kazi Ghiyasuddin - The Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design, 2018
Reflections on Modernism in Bangladesh and the abstract artist Kazi Ghiyasuddin - The Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design, 2018
Reviews
Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian Painting, by Jinah Kim | Religions of South Asia, 2021
Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian Painting, by Jinah Kim | Religions of South Asia, 2021
Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, by Naman P. Ahuja (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2018) | The Burlington Magazine, October 2020
Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, by Naman P. Ahuja (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2018) | The Burlington Magazine, October 2020
A Mediated Magic: The Indian Presence in Modernism 1880–1930, Edited by Naman P. Ahuja and Louise Belfrage (Marg Foundation and Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Stockholm and Mumbai, 2019) | The Burlington Magazine, October 2021
A Mediated Magic: The Indian Presence in Modernism 1880–1930, Edited by Naman P. Ahuja and Louise Belfrage (Marg Foundation and Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Stockholm and Mumbai, 2019) | The Burlington Magazine, October 2021
Alchi: Treasure of the Himalayas, by Peter van Ham, Amy Heller and Likir Monastery | Religions of South Asia, 2022
Alchi: Treasure of the Himalayas, by Peter van Ham, Amy Heller and Likir Monastery | Religions of South Asia, 2022
Phanigiri: Interpreting an Ancient Buddhist Site in Telangana, edited by Naman P. Ahuja | Religions of South Asia, 2022
Phanigiri: Interpreting an Ancient Buddhist Site in Telangana, edited by Naman P. Ahuja | Religions of South Asia, 2022
Ramkinkar through the Eyes of Devi Prasad by Naman P. Ahuja (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2007) | Kalakalpa IGNCA, 2021
Ramkinkar through the Eyes of Devi Prasad by Naman P. Ahuja (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2007) | Kalakalpa IGNCA, 2021
Conferences, Dialogues & Talks
Presencing Absence: The Media Afterlife of Lost Objects - AAH Annual Conference, York 2025
Presencing Absence: The Media Afterlife of Lost Objects - AAH Annual Conference, York 2025
The history of art, whether in antiquity or the present, is haunted by losses. The number of cultural and artistic artefacts that have not survived conflicts, environmental disasters and physiological decay is much greater than those still preserved today. What sometimes persists, however, are a variety of media traces of these objects, presencing their identity […]
Attention in Pre-Modern Art and Visual Culture - AAH Annual Conference, York 2025
Attention in Pre-Modern Art and Visual Culture - AAH Annual Conference, York 2025
In today’s world of perpetual digital connectivity and ever-evolving algorithms, attention is a precious, fervently sought commodity, at once carefully guarded and divided with abandon. While both the amount of imagery that endeavours to claim our attention and the pace of its change may well be at a never-before-seen pitch, concerns about attentiveness and distraction […]
Contextual Temporalities: Time and Space in Museums, Galleries and Archives - AAH Annual Conference, York 2025
Contextual Temporalities: Time and Space in Museums, Galleries and Archives - AAH Annual Conference, York 2025
This session focuses on the ways in which museums, galleries, and archives have constructed multiple temporalities through configuring relationships between objects and space in permanent and temporary displays. As tools of Enlightenment thinking, these institutions created and visualised taxonomies of art and nature. They scripted narratives around nationhood, schools, and periods, and visualised the construction […]
36th Congress of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art | The Time of the Object: Temporality, Trace, Decay | Lyon, 2024
36th Congress of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art | The Time of the Object: Temporality, Trace, Decay | Lyon, 2024
Dialogue. The Time of the Object: Temporality, Trace, Decay (NICA x OSK) | Research School Art History
Dialogue. The Time of the Object: Temporality, Trace, Decay (NICA x OSK) | Research School Art History
Event | 'Dialogue. The Time of the Object: Temporality, Trace, Decay' - Workshop (NICA x OSK) - Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA)
Event | 'Dialogue. The Time of the Object: Temporality, Trace, Decay' - Workshop (NICA x OSK) - Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA)
"The Museum is Me!” Early Women Curators and the Making of Institutional Collections (1880s-1960s) - AAH Annual Conference, Bristol 2024
"The Museum is Me!” Early Women Curators and the Making of Institutional Collections (1880s-1960s) - AAH Annual Conference, Bristol 2024
Nature and Gender in Pre-Modern Art - AAH Annual Conference, Bristol 2024
Nature and Gender in Pre-Modern Art - AAH Annual Conference, Bristol 2024
Partition, nationhood and metamorphoses of the 'authentic': The art of ancient Bengal in the contemporary global art-market | Art, Materiality and Representation (British Museum and SOAS, 1-3 June 2018)
Partition, nationhood and metamorphoses of the 'authentic': The art of ancient Bengal in the contemporary global art-market | Art, Materiality and Representation (British Museum and SOAS, 1-3 June 2018)
Other News
Archishman Sarker Speaks at the CSMC’s Workshop on ‘Written Artefacts’ at the University of Hamburg
Archishman Sarker Speaks at the CSMC’s Workshop on ‘Written Artefacts’ at the University of Hamburg
CIHA Lyon 2024 Interview
Exploring South Asian Art: Archishman Sarker Receives the Bruschettini Foundation Scholarship | Ashoka Reflections - May 2024
Exploring South Asian Art: Archishman Sarker Receives the Bruschettini Foundation Scholarship | Ashoka Reflections - May 2024
University of Kashmir VC inaugurates 4-day workshop on Academic Writing - Greater Kashmir
University of Kashmir VC inaugurates 4-day workshop on Academic Writing - Greater Kashmir
Srinagar, May 15: A four-day workshop on Academic Writing started at the University of Kashmir on Monday, May 15. Organised by the Department of English…
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