Tomorrow will Disappear | Katputli Colony

Unbox Festival 2012

More info -- www.unboxfestival.com
Photos by -- Mattancherry Studio

India Art Fair, Delhi 2012 | E-vites

MASI selects the top 4 booths/shows to must visit at the India Art Fair

Watch this space for next top 5 show openings in our next post!

VOCTRONICA | British Council

Morning Show | at W+K Gallery, Delhi

Morning Show is an exhibition of Indian adult movie posters.

Traditional Bollywood posters have become cult design objects and are collected the world over. But there is a particular type of movie poster that is largely ignored and has an aesthetic of its own: adult movie posters. With a visual language that is at times daring, at times naïf, these posters echo the kitsch imagery of Indian movie posters – but they also represent sex, a subject that is particularly taboo in India despite its many religious manifestations.

An underground, thriving design form, adult movie posters address Indian culture's forbidden fantasies, bringing them to life through often bizarre titles and explicit visuals.

And while in the rest of the world Internet porn has killed adult movie cinema, in India it is still common to see groups of school students and men in shiny collar shirts and white suit-pants nonchalantly emerging from adult-only morning shows. In many cases, this represents the only form of eroticism in a situation where the joint family system makes a private life impossible.

Source -

http://www.wkexp.com/morningshow.htm#15

In Plato's Cave | Alternative Photography Workshop, Delhi

A project collaboration of Goa-CAP and Lucida, curated by Vidisha Saini.

In Plato’s Cave is a week-long confluence of ideas on photography, engaging the participants in dialogue and debate through workshops, seminars and exhibitions. The focus of this edition is to revive and revisit practice of alternative processes of photography, in India.

Week-long workshops that are a combination of photography using the camera as well as camera-less techniques. Talks, presentations and other activities around history of photography and contemporary practices are planned.

Download Event Schedule: http://bit.ly/events_ipc

Vandalrt | Now Delhi

A website that MASI recently discovered called 'now delhi' shares emerging sub-culture, in and around the capital city - Delhi! They call themselves a video time capsule, future memories in high definition and a screenshot of emerging Indian sub-culture AND its default CANVAS! The website aims to bring and experiment with artists and audiences alike but in a blind date format!

Perhaps, MASI should take credit for awakening of sub-cultures of not just one single city but several other Indian sub-cultures from cities & villages across India? :)

Here is one such story of an emerging sub-culture from Dilli!

Vandalrt from tahska on Vimeo.

More on: www.nowdelhi.tv

Unbox Festival | Feb 24-27, 2011, Delhi

Conference + Fellowship +Public Events + Partner Festivals
UnBox creates a space for practitioners to learn from one another and spark new forms of social and cultural innovation. The festival blends work and play across contexts and mediums, bringing attendees together for lectures, panels, workshops, debates, brainstorms, and travel. The festival experience is designed to be completed and inspired by access to four parallel cultural festivals in the evenings and nights from 24-27 February 2011.

Prior to the festival, selected UnBox Fellows will participate in an immersive, intense, and multi-disciplinary field trip. We seek fellows for sessions on design thinking and entrepreneurship in India, organic food in India, Old Delhi through new media, and livelihoods in Kumaon.

More info on - http://unboxfestival.com/home/

India Art Summit | Booths To Lookout

India Art Summit has already got the art world talking about it and MASI is not far behind! We share our list of booths-not-to-be-missed, seminars, gallery openings and other art related events to watch out for.

MASI will be at the preview event (VIP) and will be sharing some exclusive coverage which will take place in the capital (Delhi) this month from Jan 21st - 23rd at Pragati Maidan. This year its bigger and better - With 85 galleries, the Summit will be presenting 570 artists from across the globe. Some major attractions this year are: Graffiti artists from France doing a live wall at the Summit, a house in Jor Bagh that has been converted into an art installation, guided curatorial walks, a sculpture lounge, nine specially commissioned live art projects, 60 public art installations and much more.

FICA FeedStation

Live Typing at the India Art Summit 2011

http://feedstation.ficart.org

Collaboration between
Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art and Abhishek Hazra

20 – 23 January 2011

India Art Summit 2011
Hall 18, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi

Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
Booth B12
20 - 23 January, 2011
www.indiaartsummit.com/
We will be showing new works by Subodh Gupta and Dayanita Singh.
The Foundation Thukral & Tagra is presenting "The Beautiful Game" in Booth S1. You will also find new sculptures by Suhasini Kejriwal in the Sculpture Court and a commissioned project by Gauri Gill: "Hall of Technology."

ANISH KAPOOR | Delhi & Bombay

PRESS RELEASE:

The first-ever exhibition of Anish Kapoor in India will be presented at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi from 28 November 2010 – 27 February 2011 and the Mehboob Film Studios, Mumbai from 30 November 2010 – 16 January 2011. The exhibition is presented by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India and the National Gallery of Modern Art, together with the British Council and Lisson Gallery in association with Louis Vuitton.

Organised across two sites, each exhibition will focus on a different strand of the artist’s practice and together will form one of the largest and most ambitious exhibitions of the artist’s work ever to be shown. It will feature a selection of sculptures and installations spanning the breadth of his career, from early pigment-based works of the 1980s, to his most recent wax installations. Both exhibitions will feature works which were included in the recent, record-breaking exhibition of Kapoor’s work at the Royal Academy, London, which attracted over 275,000 visitors in less than three months and became the most successful exhibition of a living artist ever held in London.

Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. He was born in 1954 in Bombay and moved to London in the early 1970s where he has lived and worked ever since. He studied art at Hornsey College of Art (1973-1977) and at Chelsea School of Art (1977-1978). He quickly gained international attention and acclaim for a series of solo exhibitions at museums and galleries across the world. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1990, where he was awarded the ‘Premio Duemila’.

He won the Turner Prize in 1991 and he received the prestigious Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in 2002, which he realised with the much-acclaimed work, Marsyas. Among his major permanent commissions is Cloud Gate (2004) for the Millennium Park in Chicago, considered to be the most popular public artwork in the world. He was recently awarded the commission with Cecil Balmond for a permanent artwork for the London 2012 Olympic Park, the ArcelorMittal Orbit.

The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi is one of the leading museums for modern and contemporary art in India. Recently re-furbished, the NGMA now includes three main exhibition buildings and the Anish Kapoor show will be the first major exhibition to be held in the gallery’s newly constructed Exhibition Hall.

The Mehboob Studios were founded by legendary filmmaker Mehboob Khan in 1954 to cater for the growing demand for quality film facilities in India. Situated on 20,000 square yards of seaside land in Bandra, in the heart of greater Mumbai, the studio soon became a favourite with some of the leading filmmakers of the time.

ANISH KAPOOR: Delhi / Mumbai
www.anishkapoorindia.com

Delhi
Opening 27 November
Exhibition runs 28 November - 27 February 2011
National Gallery of Modern Art
Jaipur House, India Gate, New Delhi 110 003
www.ngmaindia.gov.in
Open Tuesday - Sunday from 10am to 5pm, except Thursday until 8pm. Closed on Mondays and National Holidays
Entrance fees: Indian: Rs: 10 / Foreign National: Rs: 150 / Student/Child: Rs: 1

Mumbai
Opening 29 November
Exhibition runs 30 November - 16 January 2011
Mehboob Studios
100 Hill Road, Bandra (W), Mumbai 400 050
Opens daily from 9am to 9pm
FREE ENTRY although booking required

Booking information: +91 22 40203660/61/62/63

PRIX PICTET | Delhi

Earth in India

Religare Arts in New Delhi will host the exhibition of shortlisted work from the Prix Pictet 2009 , on the theme of ‘Earth’.

The exhibition opens on 30 November and will run until 19 December 2010. This is the first time a Prix Pictet exhibition has been shown in India and the exhibition in New Delhi marks the final stage of the Earth global tour which has visited twelve different cities around the world in the last twelve months. Plans are currently being made for the international tour that will follow on from the announcement of winner of the third Prix Pictet in March 2010. Locations are already confirmed in Dubai, Milan and Madrid. The full touring schedule will be announced in March.

Religare Arts Initiative, 7 Atmaram Mansion, Level 1, Scindia House, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi - 110001, 30 November – 19 December 2010

Indian Pole Gymnastics | Common Wealth Games Delhi 2010

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Typeshop | Delhi

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Pursuit for Independent Stuff | Yoda Press

YODAKIN

YODA PRESS, a fiercely independent publishing house based in New Delhi, has launched a store for alternative books, periodicals, music and cinema by independent publishers, record labels/musicians and filmmakers.

The new store called YODAKIN is a 400-square-feet ground floor space located at 2 Hauz Khas Village. At a time when retail is ruled by the multinational or the conglomerate entity, this store throws open a space dedicated to marketing and promoting exciting work by some cutting-edge independents in books, music and cinema.

The store intends to keep a viable alternative alive to the more mundane and mass-market-driven mainstream even as it provides more visibility to independents engaged in fresh creative pursuits. Pass the word on, and make it a point to visit YODAKIN---you will keep coming back for more.

2, Hauz Khas Village,

New Delhi 110 16

Store timings: 10:30 am - 8:00 pm

Except Tuesday: 2pm - 8pm

Tel: 011-41787201 and 26536283

Email: info@yodakin.com

Source - http://www.yodakin.com

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