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Alpesh Kantilal Patel

Alpesh Kantilal Patel is an art historian, critic, and curator. His book Productive Failure: Writing Queer Transnational South Asian Art Histories was published in 2017 by Manchester University Press.

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Gauging the Potential of Abstraction at Art Basel Miami Beach

by Alpesh Kantilal Patel December 6, 2019December 10, 2019

Questions of privilege aside, the range of abstract works reminded me how artists are providing nuanced ways of thinking about identity that move beyond exclusion/inclusion binaries.

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A Philosophical and Practical Handbook on the Development of Artistic Ideas

by Alpesh Kantilal Patel May 14, 2019May 15, 2019

Allan DeSouza’s book is both a reflective investigation exploring how artistic meaning takes shape and a functional handbook that clarifies terms often used in the art world without much lucidity.

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Grand Narratives of Freedom and Identity Dominate the Latvian Capital’s First Biennial

by Alpesh Kantilal Patel November 12, 2018November 16, 2018

While some works in the Riga Biennial address a specific historical event, only a handful explore individual or personal stories.

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Imaginary Homelands, Shahzia Sikander in Lahore

by Yasmeen Siddiqui and Alpesh Kantilal Patel September 14, 2018

This photo essay tells the story of an artist’s view of her experience at a new and important biennale.

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A Polish Filmmaker Explores Trans Identity Through Abstraction

by Alpesh Kantilal Patel August 17, 2017

Wojciech Puś’s Endless is loosely based on the life of a trans woman, but it is not about a journey from point A to point B.

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Gathering Gossip and Parsing Truth at the Istanbul Biennial

by Alpesh Kantilal Patel October 27, 2015October 31, 2015

ISTANBUL — “Gossip,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is “trifling or groundless rumour.” I actually like to think of it as knowledge, but the kind that’s not considered true or rational — at least not yet anyway.

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The latest episodes of the PBS documentary series explore the intersection between play and artistry, as well as the world of small objects and the artists who make them.

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