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An Important Modern Artwork Gains New Relevance for India

by Nageen Shaikh May 6, 2019May 3, 2019

As India prepares for general elections this year, M.F. Husain’s “Lightning” reminds us of the country’s tremendous political history.

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Indian Artists Portray Bodies Pure and Profane

by Bansie Vasvani January 25, 2016January 25, 2016

The well-known Delhi Art Gallery’s capacious new space in New York’s prestigious Fuller Building brings Indian modernists to a Western audience.

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Art Dubai Modern: Historical Fragments

by Hrag Vartanian March 27, 2014March 31, 2014

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It might be hard to imagine that only a few decades ago the conventional history of modern art was overwhelmingly Eurocentric, but when I was in college in the 1990s the realms of art history still felt geographically suffocating.

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Complex Cultural Politics of Indian, now Qatari, Painter M. F. Husain

by Hrag Vartanian March 31, 2010

Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain has accept Qatari citizenship but the issues around his story are complex. Often depicted as a straight-forward case of censorship, reporters often gloss over the fact that the painter, often called the “Picasso of India,” has chosen to live in a nation that censors far more than India.

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