Continuing on my eager tourist route, I checked out the MOMA a couple of days ago - that temple to which all western modern art history classes is dedicated [broken obelisk above is a suitab… Read More

About four years ago, I came across the catalogue published by Tulika books on Vivan Sundaram's Retake of Amrita exhibition. At the time, I wrote a little review of the work based on the cat… Read More

I'm baaAck!After a couple of months on the lam from blogging, moksha has resurfaced in the big apple and really, what could be a bigger impetus for getting back her much-needed groove?Day On… Read More

Over at www.genderingdetail.blogspot.com are images from the opening of Gendering Detail in Toronto this past Friday - a labor of love for four artists, a curator and two gallery directors!T… Read More

Apologies for the hiatus - I have been spending all my time over at:www.genderingdetail.blogspot.comBut I promise to return in about a week! Read More

The History of Chinese Painting and The History of Modern Western Art, Washed in the Washing Machine for Two Minutes (on your left), by Huang Yong Ping, is always a crowd pleaser in the clas… Read More

What is it about the state of Florida that makes everyone absolutely throw up pastel colors?Don't say it's the warm climate - I'm not buying that. there are plenty of hot places in the world… Read More

Sympatico / MSN News : Entertainment : British Museum returns aboriginal ashes to TasmaniaHere is something interesting. I mean the actual process of repatriation, rather than the specific d… Read More

Writing a blog is kind of like working out regularly - while you are engaged in the routine, it comes naturally, but once you stop - the pain of getting back to it can be a real deterrent.In… Read More

Southeast Asia, Too, Is on Map of Islamic Art - New York TimesGreat article to start the day!I like it because it demonstrates how museums are currently grappling with the boundaries of "Isl… Read More

help! If I write another convoluted footnote today I will literally weep. My hands are cramping from the tedium and my eyes will no longer focus on 12pt font sizes. kill. me. now.on a happie… Read More

After a slight hiatus (I have been entertaining!), I am back with a vengeance.One of my secret indulgences is to cruise articles on the web about the lastest fashion crazes - there are glitz… Read More

did anyone get a good look at that humungous Oscar's stage last night?enough with the Art Deco-on-steroids look - Man, I am so sick of that! Read More

Incharacter.orgThanks to www.galleryhopper.org for the link to In Character - the articles are so well written (or least the two I have read), they make me weep. Would that my dissertation s… Read More

Interesting article by Holland Cotter (like him or lump him, he tends to raise good questions - except around Islamic art; at CAA, I sat in a panel that lambasted him for his perpetuation of… Read More

One of the best things I ever did was take an art class. Now that the art school brochures are crowding the mailbox once again, I am reminded of this fact.Now it may seem strange that a pers… Read More

I read this in the morning and then promptly blocked it out of my mind as too insane to deal with. I thank Art History Newsletter for summing up the inanity so succinctly:From today’s… Read More

I live in a small apartment featuring an ad hoc arrangement of Ikea furniture interspersed with mismatched antique pieces and random India references (like the Ravi Varma print over my dinin… Read More

Before and after images of the Abbasid al-Askariyya Shrine in Baghdad that suffered serious damage last week. I cannot quite figure out if these images depict the same entrance - in the afte… Read More

Uh oh - I returned from Boston yesterday with the shameful realization that I had yet to add a single blogging entry from CAA despite my previous grandiose claims. Ok, it is official, I am n… Read More

One more word for the day - but it's short and without insight because I have not actually seen this show, and the articles I have read do not raise any interesting controversies.Howeveah … Read More

It's been years since I have donned my journalist hat and set out to find "scoops" and "angles" on stories that the general populace could potentially find interesting.So forgive the next we… Read More

I always feel a little duped to hear about doctors who got into the profession only for the money and line up to sell their souls to pharma companies. But then again, I suppose, why shouldn'… Read More

CBC Arts: Gehry says Toronto missed its chance with architectureOk, so maybe he sounds a little bit bitter.Bitter at having to gain respect for his architecture outside of the country before… Read More

This story is too hilarious.These 17th century Qing-dynasty vases have been minding their own business in the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge for apparently, decades.Along came a slightly cl… Read More