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Kapila Vatsyayan: The Visionary Who Defined Indian Aesthetic Theory
Kapila Vatsyayanâs vision was driven by a necessity to develop a terminology to be able to examine Indian art in its own art history.
Kapila Vatsyayan (1928-2020). Photo: Bharat Tiwari
In 2011, I was commissioned to curate an exhibition on ‘The Body in Indian Art and Thought’. The show was put on the road in 2013 with a grand opening by the president of India and the king of the Belgians at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. Only five years earlier, however, the very same venue had hosted another exhibition of Indian art called ‘Tejas’, curated by Kapila Vatsyayan.
Evan Hopkins Turner, former director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, dies at 93 Valerie Russ, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Evan Hopkins Turner, 93, an art historian who was director of both the Philadelphia Museum of Art and, later, the Cleveland Museum of Art, died Thursday, Dec. 17, from congestive heart failure at his home in Philadelphia.
Dr. Turner came to Philadelphia after a directorship at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1964. He succeeded Henri Marceau as director of Philadelphia’s museum and remained director until 1978.
His dedication to art came from both from his academic studies, which included three degrees including a doctorate in art history from Harvard, and also through his family legacy.