Art
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When Architecture Tells Tales: Faizullah Reinvents Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Awadh Paintings
This thesis argues that Faizullah established a subgenre of “panoramic paintings” at Awadh by incorporating pictorial idioms from mid-seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Mughal painting. Rathe...
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Xinran Guan & Sophy Chang: Between Worlds: The Intangible Thread
Brooklyn-based artists Xinran Guan and Sophy Chang stage Gallery 456 as a site of encounter and reflection. In Between Worlds: The Intangible Thread, the two-person show features oil paintings with...
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Enchanting Art, Disenchanting Judgment: Maqbool Fida Husain’s Untitled (Bharat Mata)
A prominent Indian modern and contemporary artist, Maqbool Fida Husain (1915-2011), suffered unwilling exile after depicting Untitled (Bharat Mata) in 2006 (figure 1). Husain’s painting Untitled (B...