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Uma Nair’s Biography

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CURATOR AND CRITIC UMA NAIR

Writing for nearly 3 decades on contemporary Indian art can chisel one’s thoughts and provide an arsenal that brims on the volume and power of memory.Having penned reviews and observations for major newspapers like Economic Times ,Hindustan Times and Asian Age Uma Nair believes no writing can happen without research.

Nair’s monograph on Arpita Singh’s Wishdream was an essay that was penned as far back as 2005 but published by Saffronart in 2010.Nair’s admiration for…

Uma Nair’s Journalist Portfolio

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In conversation with the world

In conversation with the world

Imagine exaltation and ennui, contemporary art born at the crossroads of modernity and antiquity - this perso…

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Laxman's lines and subtle satire

Laxman's lines and subtle satire

Imagine an entire childhood of education in the art of satire at the hands of cartoonist RK Laxman. Reading T…

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Obama's lesson in reading

Obama's lesson in reading

Obama's lesson in reading - Not since Lincoln has there been a President as fundamentally shaped by reading a…

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An ode to cityscapes

An ode to cityscapes

To look at a landscape by the modern master Ram Kumar is to be drawn into a sojourn that signifies the story …

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Chromatics of Francis Picabia at MOMA

Chromatics of Francis Picabia at MOMA

"You can photograph a landscape, but not the ideas I have in my head." This sentence represents more than a m…

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Chromatics of Francis Picabia at MOMA

Chromatics of Francis Picabia at MOMA

"You can photograph a landscape, but not the ideas I have in my head." This sentence represents more than a m…

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Articles

Wildlife in the silent forests of Kerala

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| The Times of India Verified
June 5th is World Environment Day and this is one day when we must think of marvelling at the wonders of nature that  urges us to take action for its preservation and conservation. At the Kerala Tourism project done last December was wildlife documentarian Shivang Mehta’s suite of monochromes that had a deeply mystic and prophetic  voice that captured the secrets of the jungles and reminded us of our responsibility to the Earth and its inhabitants.
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Sculptor of the soil, Ramkinkar Baij

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| Tribune (India) Verified
Imagine the red soil of Birbhum district in West Bengal, and its termite mounds. Think of a passionate rustic with a curly mop of hair fashioning his sculptures with rudimentary materials like concrete and his bare bronze skin hands. This was the guru of Santiniketan, India’s first modernist sculptor Ramkinkar Baij.
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Celebrating South Asia in London

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| The Times of India Verified
Hybridity and Belonging in Contemporary Art brings together artists from and inspired by Asia whose work explores hybridity, displacement, nostalgia, and the refusal to be confined by a singular identity. Crossing cultural and national boundaries, the artists in this suite at Sundaram Tagore’s new space in London, synthesise Eastern and Western visual languages, forms, techniques, and philosophies.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

To write on an exhibition called Women of Clay and be objective

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes 25 years ago

How is social media changing news?

It gives visibility and access but there is a lot of stuff that is not authentic
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