It would be hard to look at 2024 in isolation. TRANSFORMATIVE YEAR FOR ART SPACES 2024 was the year of milestones for art spaces—new ones opened up for niche themes while existing ones celebrated landmark years. View Full Image Soghra Khurasani and Saju Kunhan, ‘Untitled’, courtesy: the artists and TARQ Delhi-based GallerySKE and PHOTOINK ended the year with an announcement …
Art has always been political. Mumbai-based curator and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote says the Israel-Hamas conflict has caused a great division, largely in the European art world, but with consequences everywhere, including the Global South. Poet Rachel Spence, in an article in The Wire wrote: “For Documenta to accuse committee member Ranjit Hoskote, the most sensitive of thinkers, of anti-Semitism …
On the night of 25 April, poet, curator and cultural theorist, Ranjit Hoskote, announced on Twitter that artist Zarina Hashmi had passed away in London at the age of 83. “ offered the opportunity to work as an artist and keep in touch with her family in Pakistan,” wrote S Kalidas in Zarina Hashmi: Sacred Geometry of Light and Darkness. …
